These documents contain this year’s “ingot” of nuggets from FOCUS. I hope you enjoy them. Each nugget is self-contained, and (we hope) written with for the interested non-specialist. Here are the subjects of this year’s contributions.

Philip H. Bucksbaum
Otto Laporte Professor of Physics
The University of Michigan

Highlights (2005-)
1.Ultrafast X-ray Diffraction Measurements of Nanoscale Thermal Transport  [DOC format] Slide
2.Compression of laser radiation in plasmas via electromagnetic cascading [DOC format] Slide PPT
3. Optically Induced and Detected Spin Coherence: Quantum information storage in a semiconductor quantum dot [DOC format] Slide PPT
4. Ion Trapped on a Semiconductor Chip [DOC format] Slide PPT
5. Implementation of Grover's Quantum Search Algorithm in a Scalable System [DOC format] Slide PPT
6. Atom Counting Statistics in Ensembles of Interacting Rydberg Atoms [DOC format] Slide PPT
7. Calculation of Nonlinear optical signals in liquid solutions via the gen-eralized quantum master equation [DOC format] Slide PPT
8. Effective Hamiltonian for ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice across a Feshbach resonance [DOC format] Slide
9. Number squeezing in a Degenerate Bose Gas [DOC format] Slide PPT
10. Control of nonlinear resonant photochemistry of 1,3-cyclohexadiene in solution [DOC format] Slide PPT
11. Generation of 300 MeV Quasi-Monochromatic Electron Beams from Laser Wakefield [DOC format] Slide PPT
12. Efficient Initiation of Photonuclear Reactions Using Quasi-Monoenergetic Electron Beams from Laser Wakefield [DOC format] Slide PPT
13. HERCULES laser contrast reaches eleven orders of magnitude [DOC format]
14. Snapshots of Laser Wakefields Using Frequency Domain Holography [DOC format] Slide PPT
15. Coherent Control of Harmonic Generations from exploding clusters [DOC format] Slide PPT
16. Fluorescence Dynamics of Novel Solar and Photovoltaic Materials Investigated with Ultra-Short Pulses Slide
   
Highlights (2004-2005)

1. Bell Inequality Violation between Single Atom and Single Photon
2.Femtosecond x-ray stopwatch
3.Sub-Doppler Cooling in a Raman Optical Lattice (ROL) Geometry
4.Relativistic attosecond optoelectronics
5.Scaling Ion Trap Quantum Computation through Fast Quantum Gates
6. Interfacial Ferroelectrics
7.Bose Einstein Condensate in a Box
8. Coherent Population Transfer of Atoms into Rydberg States
9. Precision Atomic Lifetime Measurement with Fast Laser Pulses
10. Controlling atomic vibrations to isolate anharmonicity
11. Coherent Acoustic Phonons: Propagation Studies and Imaging Applications
12. Second-Harmonic Generation (SHG) using spatially inhomogeneous fs pulses to probe light-emitting nano-interfaces of Silicon nanocrystals
13. Self-similar parabolic beam generation
14. Engineering an artificial atom for longer coherence times: Spin qubits for quantum computing
15. Coherent Optical Control of Spin Coherence
   
Highlights (2003-2004)
1. Laser-induced proton activation of radionucleides
2. High resolution non-linear spectroscopy in a cold atomic gas
3. Trapping Cavitation Bubbles with Self-Focused Laser Beams
4. “Real” Rabi Flopping on a 111Cd+ Qubit
5. Interactive Internet Classroom
6. New technique reveals atomic structure of films with unprecedented resolution
7. FOCUS achieves quantum entanglement of three electrons
8. Tunneling Mystery Resolved
9. Imaging high energy proton beams from laser plasmas
10. Control of Relativistic Electrons from Laser Plasmas
11. Femtosecond microscopy of ?-size explosions
12. Lithographic Linear Ion Trap
13. FOCUS polarized xenon project
14. Development of Petawatt scale Ti:sapphire laser at 0.05 Hz repetition rate
15. An all-optical quantum gate in a semiconductor quantum dot
16. Raman Laser Cooling
17. Microfocus ultrafast x-rays
18. Coherent Control of Chemical Reactions
19. Coherent Control of Decoherence
 
Past Highlights  
 
The FOCUS first year research highlights


FOCUS Contact Information
Professor Chris Monroe, Director,Randall Laboratory,University of Michigan,500 East University Ave.,Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120 Phone: (734) 764-8459, Fax: (734) 764-5153 email:mamurn@umich.edu