The Department of Physics and Astronomy invites you to a colloquium featuring Dr. Elizabeth Donley, National Institute of Standards and Technology. Dr. Donley will present her talk, “Cold-Atoms: A Clean Platform for Compact Atomic Clocks and Sensors” Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 4:10 pm in Webster 17.
Meet for refreshments before the lecture at 3:45 – 4:10 p.m. in the foyer on floor G above the lecture hall.
Abstract: Recent work at NIST to develop atomic clocks and sensors based on laser cooling, atomic spectroscopy, and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) will be presented. The design, fabrication and performance of these instruments will be described, with an emphasis on our work to develop a laser-cooled atom-interferometer gyroscope and an atomic clock based on dark resonances. Finally, we speculate on possible future directions for laser-cooled atomic instruments.
