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Boulder, Colorado, United States

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Lead a project to develop a scalable integrated-photonics-based infrastructure for an optical lattice clock
• Demonstrated dual stage cooling of strontium in MOTs based on metasurface optics to achieve μK temperatures and load an optical lattice
• Developed and constructed a planar-optic-compatible experimental apparatus including: detailed analysis and CAD modeling of a science chamber with interdependent MOT components, UHV chamber, and a simplified collimated.
• Developed and constructed a planar-optic-compatible experimental apparatus including: detailed analysis and CAD modeling of a science chamber with interdependent MOT components, UHV chamber, and a simplified collimated.
• Implemented offset-phase frequency stabilization with servo feedback to diode and fiber lasers
• Optimized and analyzed supercontinuum spectrum generated with integrated nonlinear tantalum pentoxide waveguide for laser locking

Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Coordinated, managed, and lead laboratory activity of 25 students and Air Force Research Laboratory researchers for 6.7 million Agile Manufacturing multi-disciplinary research laboratory
• Supervised research efforts in robotics and machine learning for nine students and interns with education levels ranging from high school to Ph.D.
• Lead laboratory renovations, maintenance, and updates
• Lead industry showcases, collaborator recruitment tours, and outreach

Albuquerque, New Mexico

• Developed experiment to study four-wave mixing (FWM) in an atomic ensemble for quantum communication and quantum memories
• Designed and constructed experimental apparatus including: elongated cold atomic ensemble with custom 2D-MOT coils, UHV chamber, lasers frequency stabilization, custom monolithic tunable optical filters, and.
• Constructed saturated spectroscopy infrastructure and stabilized… Show more
• Constructed saturated spectroscopy infrastructure and stabilized laser frequencies with servo feedback
• Developed measurement scheme with APDs in Geiger mode and FPGA control to study high-resolution time correlations of biphotons generated with four-wave-mixing
• Performed analytic and numerical calculation of a four-wave mixing process to analyze the spatial correlation and high-dimensional entanglement of generated biphotons

Albuquerque, New Mexico Area

• Collaborated on an experiment developing novel adiabatic quantum gates based on dressed Rydberg excitations
• Designed and constructed a quantum sensing experiment to probe surface properties of materials using Rydberg EIT with a launchable MOT and a unique rotatable UHV chamber to improve material testing throughput
• Designed and constructed an experiment comprised of a MOT, UHV chamber, and single atom dipole trap to characterize custom diffractive optical elements

• Constructed and baked-out UHV chamber for a MOT
• Built saturated spectroscopy laser frequency reference infrastructure
• Aligned and tuned an ECDL to an atomic transition and built saturated spectroscopy infrastructure

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Physics

Experimental quantum optics, primarily with ultra-cold atoms, with applications in quantum information.

B.S., Physics, Minor In Mathematics; Magna Cum Laude