Mark Widmer

Research Associate

Atomic, molecular, and optical physics. Interactions of ultrashort lasers with atoms and clusters. Laser cooling.

Telephone: (516) 344-4339

Fax: (516) 344-5815

e-mail: widmer@bnl.gov

B.S. Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, 1984; Ph. D. State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1995

Edison Engineer, G.E. Lighting, 6/84-5/86; Design Physicist, G.E. Lighting, 6/86-5/88; Research Associate, BNL, 1/96-present

Publications:

1. M. T. Widmer, M. R. Doery, M. J. Bellanca, F. N. Chi, E. J. D. Vredenbregt, W. F. Buell, T. Bergeman and H. Metcalf, "Laser Cooling in the Quantum Domain: Shedding New Light on Dark States", Coherence and Quantum Optics VII, J. H. Eberly, L. Mandel, and E. Wolf, ed., Plenum Press, New York, 1996.
   
   
2. M. T. Widmer, M. R. Doery, M. J. Bellanca, W. F. Buell, T. H. Bergeman, and H. J. Metcalf, "High Velocity Dark States in Velocity Selective Coherent Population Trapping", Phys. Rev. A, 53, 946 (1996).
   
   
3. M. Widmer, M. J. Bellanca, W. Buell, H. Metcalf, M. Doery, and E. Vredenbregt, "Measurement of Force-assisted Population Accumulation In Dark States", Optics Letters, 21, 606 (1996).
   
   
4. M. R. Doery, M. T. Widmer, M. J. Bellanca, W. F. Buell, T. H. Bergeman, H. Metcalf, and E. J. D. Vredenbregt, "Population Accumulation In Dark States And Sub-recoil Laser Cooling", Phys. Rev. A 52, 2295 (1995).
   
   
5. M. Doery, M. Widmer, J. Bellanca, E. Vredenbregt, T. Bergeman, and H. Metcalf, "Energy Bands and Bloch States in 1D Laser Cooling and Their Effects on the Velocity Distribution", Phys. Rev. Lett. 72, p. 2546 (1994).
   

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