Publications

Journal articles and conference proceedings

2012

Magnus Haw, Nathan Evetts, Will Gunton, Janelle Van Dongen, James L. Booth, and Kirk W. Madison,
Magneto-optical trap loading rate dependence on trap depth and vapor density
JOSA B, Vol. 29, Issue 3, pp. 475-483 (2012)

2011

Janelle Van Dongen, Chenchong Zhu, Dallas Clement, Gabriel Dufour, James L. Booth, and Kirk W. Madison,
Trap-depth determination using residual gas collisions
Phys. Rev. A 84, 022708 (2011)


2010

B. Deh, W. Gunton, B. G. Klappauf, Z. Li, M. Semczuk, J. Van Dongen, and K. W. Madison
Giant Feshbach resonances in 6Li-85Rb mixtures
Phys. Rev. A 82, 020701(R) (2010)


2009

David E. Fagnan, Jicheng Wang, Chenchong Zhu, Pavle Djuricanin, Bruce G. Klappauf, James L. Booth, and Kirk W. Madison,
Observation of quantum diffractive collisions using shallow atomic traps
Phys. Rev. A 80, 022712 (2009) || arXiv:0907.0506

Z. Li and K.W. Madison,
Effects of Electric Fields on Heteronuclear Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold 6Li-87Rb Mixtures,
Phys. Rev. A 79, 042711 (2009) || arXiv:0902.2505

A. K. Mills, Y.-F. Chen, K. W. Madison, and D. J. Jones,
A widely tunable, single frequency optical frequency synthesizer with a 100 kHz uncertainty,
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26, 1276-1280 (2009)

K. Ladouceur, B.G. Klappauf, J. Van Dongen, N. Rauhut, B. Schuster, A.K. Mills, D.J. Jones, and K.W. Madison,
Compact laser cooling apparatus for simultaneous cooling of lithium and rubidium,
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 26, 210-217 (2009)


2008

Z. Li, S. Singh, T. V. Tscherbul, K. W. Madison,
Feshbach resonances in ultracold 85Rb-87Rb and 6Li-87Rb mixtures,
Phys. Rev. A 78, 022710 (2008) || September 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Quantum Information|| http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.0417



A. K. Mills, Y.-F. Chen, J. Jiang, K. W. Madison, and D. J. Jones,
Using Difference Frequency Generation to Lock a CW Visible Laser to a Fiber Laser Frequency Comb, Proceedings of Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference and Photonic Applications Systems Technologies,
Optical Society of America, Technical Digest (CD), (2008), paper CFA4.

2007

J. L. Booth, J. Van Dongen, P. Lebel, B. G. Klappauf, and K. W. Madison,
Dual-channel amplification in a single-mode diode laser for multi-isotope laser cooling,
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 2914-2920 (2007)



Aviv Keshet, Peter Eugster, Paul Bloudoff, Bruce G. Klappauf, and Kirk W. Madison
Amplification and front facet reflectivity of broad area lasers,
Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 19, pp. 12344-12355 (2007)

Theses and Internal Reports

2010

Gabriel Dufour
Study of collisions between cold rubidium atoms and a hot background gas
Stage M1, Thesis - August 2010



Chenchong Zhu
Investigation into Heating and Hyperfine Loss Mechanisms in Magnetically Trapped Ultra-Cold Rubidium
Honours Thesis, Thesis - April 2010 (last updated April 2010)



Dan Crawford and Taylor Dean
Microwave Antenna Design for Spin Manipulation of Laser Cooled Rubidium Atoms
APSC 479 project, Report - February 2010


2009

Davis Holmes
Design of the Ion Optical Components in a Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometer
Queen's University BSc Thesis, Thesis - September 2009



Theo Rybarczyk
Microwave system for 85Rb and 87Rb hyperfine transitions and Feshbach resonances
Stage M1, Thesis - August 2009, (Version courte - française)



Will Gunton
The Loading and Storage of Li and Rb in an Optical Dipole Trap
Honours Thesis, Thesis - April 2009 (last updated May 2009)



David Fagnan
Study of Collision Cross Section of Ultra-Cold Rubidium using a Magneto-Optic and pure Magnetic trap
Honours Thesis, Thesis - April 2009 (last updated April 2009)



Alan Robinson
Measuring the Molecular Structure of Ultracold Lithium-Rubidium Dimers by Feshbach Resonances
Honours Thesis, Thesis - April 2009 (last updated May 2009)



Pavle Djuricanin
Water cooled quadrupole magnetic trap coils (55 G/cm/A, >1000 G/cm at 20A)
Volunteer project, Technical report - May 2009 (last updated May 2009)



Troy Barrie and Greg Davis
Ultra Low Noise, High Gain Photodetector for Atomic Fluorescence Detection
APSC 479 project, Report - January 2009 (Last updated Feb. 2009)



Anthony Siu and Bill Zhang
Characterization of Femtosecond Laser Machined Micro-wires
APSC 479 project, Report - January 2009 (Last updated Feb. 2009)


2008

Ray Meng Gao
Building a Dual-Species Optical Dipole Trap for Ultracold Li-6 and Rb--85,87
Honours Thesis, Thesis - April 2008 (last updated Sept 2008)



Keith Ladouceur
Experimental Advances toward a Compact Dual-Species Laser Cooling Apparatus
Master of Science, Thesis - April 2008


2007

Janelle Van Dongen
Simultaneous cooling and trapping of 6Li and 85/87Rb
Master of Science, Thesis - December 2007



Davey Mitchell and Paul Lebel
Ultrafast Mechanical Shutters for Laser Cooling
APSC 479 project, Report - December 2007



Nina Rauhut
Towards ultracold LiRb molecules
Diplomarbeit, Thesis - July 2007



Bastian Schuster
Ultra-cold Li and Rb atoms in a Magneto-Optical Trap
Diplomarbeit, Thesis - July 2007



Swati Singh
Progress towards ultra-cold ensembles of rubidium and lithium
Master of Science, Thesis - April 2007



Eric Bakke, Peter Chen, and Pavle Djuricanin
Frequency locking system for grating stabilized diode lasers
APSC 459 project, Report - April 2007


2006

Tao Kong
Progress towards the Study of Li+Rb Ultra-cold Collisions
Master of Science, Thesis - April 2006



Friedrich Kirchner
Light for Ultra Cold Molecules
PHYS 349 project, Report - April 2006



Aviv Keshet, Peter Eugster, and Paul Bloudoff
Amplification of Broad Area Laser Diodes and Measurement of their Front Facet Reflectivities
APSC 479 project, Report - January 2006



Paul Lebel
Experimental Aspects of Ultra Cold Gases
APSC 310 project, Report - January 2006


2005

Aviv Keshet and Peter Eugster
Unbelievable: The Story of a Laser - Broad Area Diode Laser Amplifier Development
NSERC USRA project, Report - August 2005



Raymond Gao
Computer Control and ZOINKS
9 month Co-op Project
Computer Control Project final report - August 2005
LAN-to-GPIB Manual (ZOINKS) - August 2005
LAN-to-GPIB ethernut daughterboard schematics and Gerber files (ZOINKS)

The latest LAN-to-GPIB controller source code is in the sourceforge SVN repository
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ethernut-gpib/ and
http://ethernut-gpib.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ethernut-gpib/.
The GPIB part of the software is mostly contained in "GPIB.c", and there is also a slightly outdated manual under /docs.



Paul Lebel
Contributions to the UBC Quantum Degenerate Gas Lab - Magnetic Coil Construction
6 month Co-op project, Report - April 2005


2004

Jordan Baglo
Design and construction of high bandwidth photodiode amplifiers
NSERC USRA project, Report - Summer 2004

Presentations

Posters

Chenchong Zhu and Gabriel Dufour
Heating due to collisions with background gases, DAMOP 2010

David Fagnan
Quantum Diffractive Collisions Poster

Madison
2006 QDG Departmental Poster

Talks

Madison - This is regarding work I was involved in while in the group of Jean Dalibard at the ENS in Paris (1998-2001).
Dilute Bose-Einstein condensates and their role in the study of quantum fluids: rotations, vortices, and coherence. UBC Colloqium from 2003. Vortex nucleation movies: A, B, C, D.

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