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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)In this thesis, I have studied the dependence of the Casimir force between neutral conductors on their shapes. After reducing the problem to that of finding the density of states of' an appropriate hamiltonian I studied ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Craig Hogan recently proposed a "quantum holographic" noise that could potentially raise the expected noise floor for some current and upcoming high precision interferometers. Rainer Weiss et al. have designed an experiment ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Despite the study of shock wave compression of condensed matter for over 100 years, scant progress has been made in understanding the microscopic details. This thesis explores microscopic phenomena in shock compression of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)In this thesis, we study the effects of interparticle interactions on the optical spectrum of cold gases. We first consider homogenous gas in the weak excitation regime and find that the optical spectrum of a system of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)We present an experiment exploring electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in Rydberg atoms in order to observe optical nonlinearities at the single photon level. ⁸⁷Rb atoms are trapped and cooled using a magneto-optical ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)We present a novel non-invasive optical method for detection of neural action potentials using low coherence interferometry. The dual beam heterodyne interferometer (DBHI) is a modified Michelson with a low coherence source ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Organic materials, with their superior photoluminescence and absorbance properties have revolutionized the technologies for displays and solar energy conversion. Due to the large transition dipoles, the localization of ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)In this thesis, I discuss observations of the optical afterglows of seven HETE GRBs, carried out mainly with the Magellan Telescopes at Las Campanas Observatory in Chile. Five of the bursts, GRBs 020331, 030115, 030418, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Both high index-contrast (HIC) photonic crystals and HIC microphotonic circuits are presented in this thesis. Studies of macro-scale 2D photonic crystal meta-materials are first described. Through comparison of experimental ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)The spectroscopic technique Impulsive Stimulated Scattering (ISS) was refined and used to study the complex structural relaxation dynamics of glass forming liquids, allowing both empirical modeling and testing of the ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis attempts to improve on an ongoing experiment of detecting electron spin resonance (ESR) on AlGaAs/GaAs lateral quantum dots. The experiment is performed in a 2.5 Tesla magnetic field at temperatures around ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Kerr-lens mode locked Ti:sapphire lasers are the backbone of most ultrafast and attosecond pulse generation systems. As such when building such systems the experimentalist desires an easy to use and robust system to produce ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This project investigated the possibility of using superconducting bearings in large (3 - 100 MW) electric drives. Superconducting bearings are used to levitate the rotors inside electric drives via the Meiissner effect, ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997)
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