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Density Controlled Photon Pair Generation: a Prototype Source of Tunable Entangled Photons from Supercritical Xenon

Klarup, Kyle (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

This dissertation describes the development and verification of a fiber based prototype system for generating entangled photon pairs with a reduced spontaneous Raman scattering background compared to solid-core optical ...
Design and Characterization of a Custom Aspheric Lens System for Single Atom Imaging

Briel, Matthew (University of Oregon, 2012)

We designed an optical imaging system compromising a pair of custom aspheric lenses for the purpose of making a continuous position measurement of a single rubidium atom in a dipole trap. The lens profiles were ...
Development of a Strontium Magneto-Optical Trap for Probing Casimir–Polder Potentials

Martin, Paul (University of Oregon, 2017-09-27)

In recent years, cold atoms have been the centerpiece of many remarkably sensitive measurements, and much effort has been made to devise miniaturized quantum sensors and quantum information processing devices. At small ...
Dissipative Control and Imaging of Cold Atoms

Thorn, Jeremy (University of Oregon, 2012)

We present an all-optical one-way barrier for cold rubidium 87 atoms. Along with the basic theory on how the barrier works, we describe the experimental setup and demonstrate an actual realization of the barrier. Such a ...
Laser Cooling and Trapping of Neutral Strontium for Spectroscopic Measurements of Casimir-Polder Potentials

Cook, Eryn (University of Oregon, 2018-04-10)

Casimir and Casimir-Polder effects are forces between electrically neutral bodies and particles in vacuum, arising entirely from quantum fluctuations. The modification to the vacuum electromagnetic-field modes imposed by ...
Lévy Motion and Cold Atoms

Erickson, Wesley (University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)

Lévy processes are a universal model for characterizing the behavior of extreme events and anomalously diffusive systems. They are also important in modeling the transport of laser-cooled atoms. This dissertation contributes ...
Position and Temperature Measurements of a Single Atom via Resonant Fluorescence

Wagner, Richard (University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)

The magneto-optical trap (MOT) has been an important tool in quantum optics research for three decades. MOTs allow for hundreds of thousands to millions of atoms to be cooled to micro-Kelvin temperatures for use in a wide ...
Properties of Effective Pair Potentials that Map Polymer Melts onto Liquids of Soft Colloid Chains

Clark, Anthony (University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)

The ability to accurately represent polymer melts at various levels of coarse graining is of great interest because of the wide range of time and length scales over which relevant process take place. Schemes for developing ...
The Double-Heralded Generation and Frequency Translation of Two-Photon States of Light in Optical Fibers

Smith, Roger (University of Oregon, 2016-11-21)

The creation of optical states of light that are quantum mechanical in nature in optical fibers is discussed and demonstrated experimentally. Specifically, two- photon states created by spontaneous four-wave-mixing in ...
The Worldline Method for Electromagnetic Casimir Energies

Mackrory, Jonathan (University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)

The Casimir effect refers to the primarily attractive force between material bodies due to quantum fluctuations in the electromagnetic field. The Casimir effect is difficult to calculate in general, since it is sensitive ...
Trion-based Optical Processes in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Baldwin, Thomas (University of Oregon, 2016-02-23)

In a semiconductor, negative charge is carried by conduction-band electrons and positive charge is carried by valence-band holes. While charge transport properties can be understood by considering the motion of these ...