Journal Club

5/23/18:

Journal Name	Article Title	Description
Review of Scientific Instruments	An arbitrary-function light power controller	A noise eater using an EOM.
Review of Scientific Instruments	Automated translating beam profiler for in situ laser beam spot-size and focal position measurements	They put a CMOS camera on a translation stage and hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi to automate finding the beam waist and location.
Physical Review X	Experimental Demonstration of QSLP in an Atomic Ensemble	A non-classical stationary light pulse is experimentally demonstrated in a cold atomic ensemble.
IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics	Thermal Characteristics of Brillouin Microsphere Laser	Modeling microspheres.
Optica	Endlessly adiabatic fiber with a logarithmic refractive index distribution	Theoretical discussion and experimental realization of making tapered fibers with very short taper length and low losses.
Optica	Microresonator isolators and circulators based on the intrinsic nonreciprocity of the Kerr effect	The Kerr effect causes energy level splitting between CW and CCW modes in microresonators, allowing them to act as an optical isolator. Good references to coupling to the spheres, mode structure, and passive locking.
Physical Review A	Quantum work in the Bohmian framework	A description of work in quantum mechanics using Bohmian ideas that is usable with thermodynamics.
Physical Review A	Dynamics of tunneling ionization using Bohmian mechanics	Explores tunneling ionization using ideas from Bohmian mechanics.
Physical Review A	Pulse growth dynamics in laser mode locking	A theoretical and numerical analysis of pulse formation in a mode-locked laser.
Journal Name	Title	Description.

6/21/17:

Journal Name	Article Title	Description
Nature Photonics	Fast silicon photodiodes	Interesting summary of photodiode technology and limitations. Can response time be increased without sacrificing sensitivity?
Nature Photonics	Spatial beam self-cleaning in multimode fibres	The Kerr effect caused by high intensity beams can result in more light coupling into the fundamental mode of a multi-mode fiber, causing minimal beam speckling at the output.
Science	Quantum sensing with arbitrary frequency resolution	NV centers in diamond are used to detect the frequency of oscillating magnetic fields with submillihertz resolution.
Physical Review Letters	Self-Similar Nanocavity Design with Ultrasmall Mode Volume for Single-Photon Nonlinearities	By coupling light into a cavity with an extremely small mode volume, nonlinear optical effects can be observed with very small numbers of photons.
Physical Review Letters	Ultrafast Magnetization of a Dense Molecular Gas with an Optical Centrifuge	A new technique allows for magnetization of much denser gases than was previously possible.
Journal of Computational Physics	Constructing non-reflecting boundary conditions using summation-by-parts in time	An alternate technique for constructing non-reflecting boundaries, supposedly simpler than current techniques such as perfectly-matched layers (PMLs).
Nature Communications	Harnessing speckle for a sub-femtometer resolved broadband wavemeter and laser stabilization	They demonstrate speckle-pattern based wavemeter with about 1 MHz frequency resolution
Nature Communications	Observing electron localization in dissociating H2+ molecule in real time	They use pump-probe technique with CEP stabilized ~5 fs long pulses to probe dissociation dynamics of H2+ in femtosecond time scales
Journal of the Optical Society of America A	Raman-assisted broadband Kerr frequency comb generation in AlN-on-sapphire microresonators	Four wave mixing is used in a AlN film to build a frequency comb spanning 1.2-2.2 um
Nature Communications	Quantifying the magnetic nature of light emission	Light emitted from Europium ions is decomposed into parts originating from electric dipole transitions and magnetic dipole transitions
Optics Express	Straightforward method to measure optomechanically induced transparency	Optomechanically induced transparency is demonstrated without the use of a homodyne field
arxiv	Dark state optical lattice with sub-wavelength spatial structure	Experimental realization of an optical lattice for cold atoms with sub-wavelength spatial structure