Theses and Internal Reports
2022
Pinrui Shen
Development of a Cold Atom Pressure Standard
Doctor of Philosophy, Dissertation – April 2022 || UBC-Circle Link to dissertation
2018
Yue Shen
Determination of the Atom’s Excited-state Fraction in a Magneto-optical Trap
Master of Science, Thesis – October 2018 || UBC-Circle Link to thesis
2017
Shi Jing Yu
The Study of Field Programmable Gate Array Based Servos in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Experiments
Master of Science, Thesis – April 2017 || UBC-Circle Link to thesis
2016
Will Gunton
Photoassociation and Feshbach Resonance Studies in Ultra-Cold Gases of 6Li and Rb Atoms
Doctor of Philosophy, Dissertation – April 2016 || UBC-Circle Link to dissertation
2015
Steve Novakov
Development of a 12.4 GHz Bandwidth Frequency Offset Locking Unit for Two-Laser Systems
Internal Report – May 25, 2015
Mariusz Semczuk
Photoassociation spectroscopy of a degenerate Fermi gas of 6Li
Doctor of Philosophy, Dissertation – February 2015 || UBC-Circle Link to dissertation
Steve Novakov and Jeff Taylor
Pound-Drever-Hall Servomechanism with an Atomic Gas Reference for Frequency Stabilization of a Master Laser
APSC 479 Project, Internal Report – January 12, 2015
2014
William J. Bowden
An Experimental Apparatus for the Laser Cooling of Lithium and Rubidium
Master of Science, Thesis – October 2014
Steve Novakov
ROSA Frequency response
Internal Report – June 9, 2014
Fumiei Kobayashi
The Photon Scattering Rate of 85Rb for a Magneto-Optical Trap Using the Four Level Model
Honours Thesis, Thesis – April 2014
Kahan McAffer Dare
The Design and Characterization of a High-Resolution Imaging System
Honours Thesis, Thesis – April 2014
2013
Jeff Burton, Forrest Paul, and Blake Raymond
Scripted Control System For Ultra-Cold Atom Experiments
APSC 459 Project, Report – December 2013
Victor Barua
QDG Python Controller and PAT Framework Manual
FOGS USRA, Report – August 2013
Glenn McGuinness
Contributions to an apparatus for the creation of alkali-metal hydride molecules
Volunteer project, Technical Report – August 2013
Adrien Cavaillès
Piège magnéto-optique et mesure de pression
Master Stage de recherche, Report – August 2013
Janelle Van Dongen
Study of background gas collisions in atomic traps
Doctor of Philosophy, Dissertation – April 2013
Kais Jooya
Determining the Correlation Between Fluorescence and Atom Number in Rb Magneto-Optical Traps
Honours Thesis, Thesis – April 2013
Thomas Robert Prescott
Construction and Characterization of a Rubidium Magneto-Optical Trap for the Production of Rubidium Hydride via. Photoassociation
Honours Thesis, Thesis – April 2013
2012
Julien Witz
Stable frequency comb for cold molecules formation and spectroscopy
Ecole Polytechnique Research Internship Report, Report – August 2012
Nam Musterer
The NAM-less Method: A Straightforward Technique to Extract the Saturation Intensity of a Magneto-Optical Trap. Verifying the Scattering Rate Equation for Two Level Atoms in Magneto-Optical Traps
Honours Thesis, Thesis – April 2012 (last updated May 2012)
Magnus Haw
Single Color Photoassociation Spectroscopy of 6Li2 and 85Rb2
Honours Thesis, Thesis – April 2012 (last updated August 2012)
Kyle Boone, Alec Douglas, Alysson Vrielink
Laser Intensity Stabilization System
APSC 459 project, Report – April 2012 and Schematic (Altium) and PCB (Gerber) files
William Bowden, Damien Quentin, and Jon-Paul Sun
Stable Laser Sources for the Formation of Ultra-cold Molecules
APSC 479 project, Report – April 2012
Brendan Mulholland and Daniel Da Costa
Construction of a 500 MHz Direct Digital Synthesizer
APSC 479 project, Report Part 1, Part 2 – January 2012
2011
William Bowden, Damien Quentin, and Jon-Paul Sun
Design, Construction, and Characterization of an Interference- Filter Stabilized External-Cavity Diode Laser
APSC 459 project, Report – April 2011
Calvin Childs
Measurement of loss cross section of rubidium magneto-optic traps : Integration of CMOS camera imaging
Honours Thesis, Thesis – April 2011
Paul Joseph Godin
The Effect of Trap Settings on the Formation of Rubidium Dimers in a Magnetic Optical Trap
Honours Thesis, Thesis – April 2011
Nathan Evetts
A Study of Excited State Atoms in Cold Atom Traps and a test of the Reif Model to Determine Trap Depth
Honours Thesis, Thesis – April 2011
Joshua Wienands
Construction and Characterization of a Prototype External Cavity Diode Laser
PHYS 349 project, Report – February 2011
Dallas Clement
Computation and analytic approximation of scattering observables for background collisions : both ground and excited state collisions
PHYS 349 project, Report – February 2011
2010
Gabriel Dufour
Study of collisions between cold rubidium atoms and a hot background gas
Stage M1, Thesis – August 2010
Ian Moult, Weiqi Wang, and Haotian Pang
Design of a Magneto-Optical Trapping System
APSC 459 project, Report – April 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)
Jonathan Johannes
Characterization of the Atom Chip
Honours Thesis, Thesis – 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)
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, ~300 turns per coil and L=10 mH combined inductance)
Volunteer project, Technical report – May 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)
Anthony Siu and Bill Zhang
Characterization of Femtosecond Laser Machined Micro-wires
APSC 479 project, Report – January 2009 (Last updated Feb. 2009)
Troy Barrie and Greg
Ultra Low Noise, High Gain Photodetector for Atomic Fluorescence Detection
APSC 479 project, Report – January 2009 (Last updated Feb. 2009)
2008
Keith Ladouceur
Experimental Advances toward a Compact Dual-Species Laser Cooling Apparatus
Master of Science, Thesis – April 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)
Davey Mitchell and Paul Lebel
Ultrafast Mechanical Shutters for Laser Cooling
APSC 479 project, Report – January 2008. Eagle layout files here.
2007
Janelle Van Dongen
Simultaneous cooling and trapping of 6Li and 85/87Rb
Master of Science, Thesis – December 2007
Aviv Keshet, Peter Eugster, and Paul Bloudoff
Amplification of Broad Area Laser Diodes and Measurement of their Front Facet Reflectivities
APSC 479 project, Report – September 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
Eric Bakke, Peter Chen, and Pavle Djuricanin
Frequency locking system for grating stabilized diode lasers
APSC 459 project, Report – April 2007
Swati Singh
Progress towards ultra-cold ensembles of rubidium and lithium
Master of Science, Thesis – April 2007
Paul Lebel
Experimental Aspects of Ultra Cold Gases
APSC 310 project, Report – January 2007
2006
Sanaz Fotoohi
Control System of Quantum Degenerate Gases Laboratory
Doctor of Philosophy, Reports – May 2006
Friedrich Kirchner
Light for Ultra Cold Molecules
PHYS 349 project, Report – April 2006
Tao Kong
Progress towards the Study of Li+Rb Ultra-cold Collisions
Master of Science, Thesis – April 2006
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.
Aviv Keshet and Peter Eugster
Unbelievable: The Story of a Laser – Broad Area Diode Laser Amplifier Development
NSERC USRA project, Report – August 2005
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
1998
Kirk W. Madison
Quantum Transport in Optical Lattices
Doctor of Philosophy, PhD Dissertation – August 1998