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Observation of Nanosecond Laser Induced Fluorescence of In Vitro Seawater Phytoplankton (with Lisa Clemo, Chris Gilbert, Bryan Neff, Mark A. Moline, and Dov Rohan), Applied Optics (2008)

Seawater has been irradiated using a train of 70 ns flashes from a 440 nm...

 

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Bioluminescence in a complex coastal environment: 1. Temporal dynamics of nighttime water-leaving radiance (with Mark A. Moline, Matthew J. Oliver, Curtis D. Mobley, Lydia Sundman, Trisha Bergmann, W. Paul Bissett, James Case, Erika H. Raymond, and Oscar M.E. Schofield), Journal of Geophysical Research (2007)
Nighttime water-leaving radiance is a function of the depth-dependent distribution of both the in situ...
 

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Illustrating Physics with Ray-Traced Computer Graphics, The Physics Teacher (2006)
This paper provides a brief introduction to using ray-traced computer graphics for creating illustrations to...
 

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Computer-controlled In-class Feedback System for Interactive Lectures, American Journal of Physics (2003)
Instructors who wish to implement an interactive lecture style, such as peer instruction, have the...
 

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Computer sound card assisted measurements of the acoustic Doppler effect for accelerated and unaccelerated sound sources (with S. E. Frey), American Journal of Physics (2001)
An approach to experimentally measuring the speed of a moving object by direct application of...
 

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Measuring g with a Joystick Pendulum, The Physics Teacher (2001)

A method for experimentally measuring g, the Earth's gravitational acceleration, is presented. This method uses...

 

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Complete View of Stark Wave-packet Evolution (with M. B. Campbell and Robert R. Jones), Physical Review A (1999)
Picosecond laser pulses have been used to produce Rydberg wave packets in calcium atoms in...
 

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Half-Cycle Pulse Assisted Electron-Ion Recombination (with M. B. Campbell and Robert R. Jones), Physical Review Letters (1998)
Unipolar “half-cycle” electric field pulses (HCPs) have been used to recombine free electrons and calcium...
 

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Probing Electronic Radial Wave Packets Using Impulsive Momentum Retrieval (with M. B. Campbell and Robert R. Jones), Physical Review A (1998)
Subpicosecond half-cycle pulses and a single-shot imaging detector have been used to monitor the evolution...
 

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Observation of Oscillations Between Degenerate Bound-state Configurations in Rapidly Autoionizing Two-electron Atoms (with M. B. Campbell and Robert R. Jones), Physical Review A (1998)

The oscillation between bound-state configurations in a rapidly autoionizing three-body Coulomb system has been directly...

 

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Single-shot Detection of Wavepacket Evolution (with M. B. Campbell and Robert R. Jones), Optics Express (1997)
We have developed a new instrument for monitoring electronic wavepacket dynamics using a single electromagnetic...
 

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Ionization of Na Rydberg Atoms by Subpicosecond Quarter-Cycle Circularly Polarized Pulses (with G. Haeffler and Robert R. Jones), Physical Review Letters (1997)
We report the first observation of ionization of Rydberg atoms by subpicosecond, circularly polarized THz...
 

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Effects of Imperfect Unipolarity on the Ionization of Rydberg Atoms by Subpicosecond Half-Cycle Pulses (with N. E. Tielking and Robert R. Jones), Physical Review A (1995)
Rydberg atoms are ionized by nearly unipolar, subpicosecond electromagnetic pulses. Deviations from a perfectly unidirectional...
 

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Lecture Notes, ASTR 324: Longitude, Time, and Navigation (2008)