Student Thesis Archive

2019

• Paige Price, “Locking a Cavity to a Laser for Laser Phase Noise Measurements,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, April 2019).

2018

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

2017

• John Chorak, “Characterizing a Digital Camera for Use in a Wavelength Meter ,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2017).

2016

• McKinley Pugh, “Increasing Stability in Extended Cavity Diode Lasers using Frequency Noise Feedback,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2016).

2015

• Cassi Burton, “An Ideal Guitar Tuner: Optimizing Consonance by Minimizing Beating,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, September 2015).
• Tyler Jones, “Measuring Laser Wavelength with Filtered-Photodiode Color Sensors,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2015).
• Adam Kingsley, “Instructional Lab for Undergraduates Utilizing the Hanbury Brown and Twiss Effect,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, December 2015).
• Nils Otterstrom, “Filtered Photodiodes for Laser Wavelength Metrology,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2015).

2014

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

2013

• Jeffery Anderson, “,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, June 2013).
• Jarom Jackson, “Frequency Stabilization of Diode Lasers for Ion Interferometry,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2013).

2012

• Mark Cunningham, “,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2012).
• Michael Hermansen, “Low-Noise Piezoelectric Driver for External Cavity Diode Lasers,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Capstone, April 2012).

2010

• Aaron Bennett, “Homodyne Detection in a Laser Locking System,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2010).
• Daylin Troxel, “A Characterization Of The Noise Spectral Density Of A Low Noise Current Driver And Pid Controller,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2010).

2009

• James Archibald, “Construction of a 423 nm Fluorescence Probe Using Second Harmonic Generation,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2009).
• Daniel Merrill, “Amplifying An Ultra-Stable Diode Laser Via Injection Locking,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2009).

2007

• Jeremiah Birrell, “Design of a Frequency-Doubled 423 nm Laser For Use in a Calcium Interferometer,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, December 2007).
• Daniel Christensen, “Instrumentation And Calculations For Matter-Wave Interferometry Experiments,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2007).
• Marshall van Zijll, “A Digital Potentiometer For An Ultra Stable Laser Current Driver,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2007).

2006

• Greg Doermann, “An Ultra-Stable Laser Current Controller,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2006).
• Brian Neyenhuis, “Developing A Narrow Linewidth 657 Nm Diode Laser For Use In A Calcium Atom Interferometer,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, April 2006).
• Justin Paul, “Contributions to an Atomic Frequency Standard,” Advisor: Dallin Durfee (Senior Thesis, August 2006).

2005

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

2004

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

2003

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