Student Thesis Archive

2010s

2019

Jackson, Jarom Silver, “Mechanically Scanned Interference Pattern Structured Illumination Imaging,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (PhD Dissertation, Jun 2019).
Price, Paige, “Locking a Cavity to a Laser for Laser Phase Noise Measurements,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, Apr 2019).

2018

Welch, Ethan, “Stabilizing Injection-Locked Lasers through Active Feedback,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Apr 2018).

2016

Jackson, Jarom Silver, “In Situ Magnetic Field Characterization with the Directional Hanle Effect,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Masters Thesis, Jun 2016).
Pugh, McKinley, “Increasing Stability in Extended Cavity Diode Lasers using Frequency Noise Feedback,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Apr 2016).

2015

Archibald, Lawrence, “Construction of a 408 nm Laser System for Use in Ion Interferometry,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Masters Thesis, Dec 2015).
Kingsley, Adam, “Instructional Lab for Undergraduates Utilizing the Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Dec 2015).
Burton, Cassi, “An Ideal Guitar Tuner: Optimizing Consonance by Minimizing Beating,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, Sep 2015).
Jones, Tyler, “Measuring Laser Wavelength with Filtered-Photodiode Color Sensors,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Apr 2015).
Otterstrom, Nils, “Filtered Photodiodes for Laser Wavelength Metrology,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Apr 2015).

2014

Lambert, Enoch, “Mode Stabilization of a Diode Laser Using Radio-frequency Lock Noise,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Apr 2014).

2013

Jackson, Jarom, “Frequency Stabilization of Diode Lasers for Ion Interferometry,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Apr 2013).

2012

Hermansen, Michael, “Low-Noise Piezoelectric Driver for External Cavity Diode Lasers,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, Apr 2012).

2011

Erickson, Christopher Joseph, “Development of a Strontium-87 Ion Interferometer,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (PhD Dissertation, Dec 2011).

2010

Bennett, Aaron, “Homodyne Detection in a Laser Locking System,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Aug 2010).

2000s

2007

Birrell, Jeremiah, “Design of a Frequency-Doubled 423 nm Laser For Use in a Calcium Interferometer,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Dec 2007).
Erickson, Christopher Joseph, “Construction of a Calcium Matter-Wave Interferometer,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Masters Thesis, Nov 2007).
Christensen, Daniel, “Instrumentation And Calculations For Matter-Wave Interferometry Experiments,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Aug 2007).
van Zijll, Marshall, “A Digital Potentiometer For An Ultra Stable Laser Current Driver,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Apr 2007).

2006

Neyenhuis, Brian, “Developing A Narrow Linewidth 657 Nm Diode Laser For Use In A Calcium Atom Interferometer,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Apr 2006).

2005

Erickson, Christopher, “A High Temperature Vapor Cell for Absorption Spectroscopy on the Calcium Intercombination Line,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Jun 2005).

2004

Olson, Rebecca, “Self-Referencing Interferometer Measurement of Prism Angles with Microradian Precision,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, Jan 2004).

2003

Merrill, Rebecca, “A New Scheme for External-Cavity Diode Laser Stabilization,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Honors Thesis, Mar 2003).