Papers

Bitter M., Shapiro E. A., Milner V., Coherent ro-vibrational revivals in a thermal molecular ensemble. in preparation (2012).

Zhdanovich S., Bloomquist C., Floss J., Averbukh I. Sh., Hepburn J. W., Milner V. Quantum resonances in selective rotational excitation of molecules with a sequence of ultrashort laser pulses. submitted (2012) , arXiv.

Zhdanovich S., Milner A. A., Bloomquist C., Floss J., Averbukh I. Sh., Hepburn J. W., Milner V. Control of molecular rotation with a chiral train of ultrashort pulses.Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 243004 (2011), link, arXiv.

Shapiro, E. A., Drane, T. M. & Milner, V. Prospects of coherent control in turbid media: Bounds on focusing broadband laser pulses. Phys. Rev. A. 84, 053807 (2011), link, arXiv.

Zhdanovich S., Hepburn J. W. & Milner V. Strong-field effects in Rabi oscillations between a single state and a superposition of states. Phys. Rev. A. 84, 053428 (2011), link, arXiv.

Shapiro, E. A., Konorov, S. O. & Milner, V. Interference spectroscopy with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering of noisy broadband pulses. J. Raman Spec. (2011), link.

Konorov, S. O., Hepburn, J. W. & Milner, V. Time- and frequency-resolved detection of atomic coherence in the regime of strong-field interaction with intense femtosecond laser pulses. Phys. Rev. A, 83, 033417 (2011). link.

Drane T. M., Hepburn J. W. & Milner V. Coherent Raman spectroscopy through one-dimensional random scattering medium. J. Mod. Opt., 57, 1928-1935 (2010), link.

Zhdanovich S., Shapiro E. A., Shapiro M., Hepburn J. W., Milner V. Complete transfer of populations from a single state to a pre-selected superposition of states using Piecewise Adiabatic Passage: Experiment. Phys. Rev. A, 80, 063405 (2009), link, arXiv.

Konorov, S. O., Xu, X. G., Hepburn, J. W. & Milner, V. Characterization of transient molecular vibration excited with shaped femtosecond pulses. J. Chem. Phys 130, 234505 (2009). link

Milner V. Shaping and monitoring molecular wavepackets with shaped femtosecond pulses. invited review paper, special issue of Physics in Canada, 65, 81-84 (2009).

Konorov, S. O., Xu, X. G., Hepburn, J. W. & Milner, V. Narrowband spectroscopy by all-optical correlation of broadband pulses. Phys. Rev. A (Rap Comm) 79, 031801R (2009). link, arXiv.

Shapiro, E. A., Milner, V. & Shapiro, M. Complete transfer of populations from a single state to a pre-selected superposition of states using Piecewise Adiabatic Passage: Theory. Phys. Rev. A. 79, 023422 (2009), link ( arXiv)

Zhang S., Park J., Milner, V. & Genack A. Z. Photon delocalization transition in dimensional crossover in layered media. Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 183901 (2008), link

Xu, X. G., Konorov, S. O., Hepburn, J. W. & Milner, V. Background-free Coherent Raman spectroscopy by Detecting the Spectral Phase of Molecular Vibrations. Optics Letters 33, 1177 (2008), link

Zhdanovich S., Shapiro E. A., Shapiro M., Hepburn J. W., Milner V. Population transfer between two quantum states by piecewise chirping of femtosecond pulses: Theory and experiment. Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 103004 (2008), link (arXiv)

Xu, X. G., Konorov, S. O., Hepburn, J. W. & Milner, V. Noise auto-correlation spectroscopy with coherent Raman scattering. Nature Physics 4, 125 - 129 (2008), link (arXiv)

Shapiro, E. A., Milner, V., Menzel-Jones, C. & Shapiro, M. Piecewise adiabatic passage with a series of femtosecond pulses. Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 033002 (2007). link

Konorov, S. O. et al. Pulse optimization for Raman spectroscopy with cross-correlation frequency resolved optical gating. Optics Express 15, 7564-7571 (2007). link

Xu, X. G., Konorov, S. O., Zhdanovich, S., Hepburn, J. W. & Milner, V. Complete characterization of molecular vibration using frequency resolved gating. The Journal of Chemical Physics 126, 091102-5 (2007). link

Patents

Milner, V., Xu, X. G., Konorov, S. O., Hepburn, J. W. A system and method for noise auto-correlation spectroscopy with coherent Raman scattering. patent pending (60/960.548)

Milner, V., Xu, X. G., Konorov, S. O., Hepburn, J. W. A system and method for coherent nonlinear spectroscopy by all-optical correlation of broadband pulses. patent under preparation

Posters and talks

GRC 2009 (invited talk)

LTC Workshop 2009 (invited talk)

DAMOP 2009 (talk 1, talk 2, talk 3)

ISTCP 2008 (2 invited talks)

DAMOP 2008 (talk 1, talk 2)

GRC 2007 (poster 1 (1.3 Mb), poster 2 (1.3 Mb))

DAMOP 2007 (poster 1(1.3 Mb), poster 2 (1.1 Mb))

UBC 2006 (poster 1 (950 Kb), poster 2 (830 Kb))