Daniel Hickstein Email & Phone Number

Boulder, Colorado, United States

Octave Photonics specializes in easy-to-use devices based on nanophotonic chips. We're a small company, so we all work in many aspects of the business. That said, I spend much of my time working on a NASA grant to develop supercontinuum generation waveguides that will allow 10+ GHz repetition rate frequency comb lasers to be used to calibrate astronomical.

Boulder, Colorado

As a Senior Research Scientist at KMLabs, I was the lead scientist for the eXtreme Ultraviolet Ultrafast Source (XUUS). This product uses high-harmonic generation (HHG) to produce femtosecond (and even attosecond!) pulses of light in the extreme-ultraviolet and soft-X-ray regions. During my time as project lead, I oversaw the implementation of a complete.

Boulder, CO

As a research scientist at KMLabs, I was the manager of our VUV-generation products (Y-Fi VUV and Hyperion VUV). I oversaw the transition from early proof-of-principle prototype to the final commercial system. I led the design, build, and installation for two ~$0.5M laser systems.

Boulder, Colorado

At KMLabs, I worked to find applications for our ytterbium-fiber lasers, and developed a prism-based compressor system to allow our lasers to interface with multiphoton microscopes. I installed a laser system onto a multiphoton microscope that was used for imaging live mouse brains.

Boulder, CO

At NIST, I worked with Scott Papp and Scott Diddams in the Time and Frequency Division. I studied chip-scale waveguides for supercontinuum generation and microresonator frequency combs. The broad idea is to take laser frequency combs, and allow them to be made on the centimeter scale. Some of the nanophotonic waveguides that we studied at NIST would later.

Leading a team of 5 people in laser physics research.

Boulder, CO

I am pursuing a PhD in Chemical Physics at the University of Colorado, where I work in the lab of Drs. Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane, developing new methods of using femtosecond X-ray lasers to study atoms, molecules, and nanomaterials. Here I have gained experience with high-power lasers, the design of ultrahigh vacuum systems, gas-phase.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

In the lab of Dr. Jacqui Cole, I used X-Ray crystallography to investigate non-linear optical materials. Here I gained experience with computational quantum chemistry and how to relate this to modeling experimental X-ray diffraction data.

Claremont, CA

During my undergraduate studies at Pomona College, I worked in the lab of Dr. Daniel O'Leary. In the O'Leary lab, I used NMR spectroscopy and computational chemistry software (Gaussian, GAMESS, Spartan, etc.) to understand the dynamic nature of hydrogen bonds. In addition, I collaborated with the Grubbs group at Caltech to synthesize new compounds to help.

Boulder, Colorado

During the summer of 2006 I worked with Dr. Liz Donley at the National Institute for Standards and Technology in Boulder, CO. I assisted with the construction of a prototype nuclear magnetic resonance gyroscope (NMR gyro), a device that could be used to construct miniature navigation devices for airplanes.

Bethesda, Maryland

During the summers of 2003 and 2004 I worked in two different labs at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. In the lab of Dr. Brant Weinstein at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, I used recombinant DNA methods to create zebrafish with blood cells labelled with fluorescent dyes. In 2004, I worked in the lab of.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Chemical Physics

I completed my PhD in the lab or Professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn. There I studies the interaction of ultrafast laser pulses.

Master Of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Physics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry