DLS Carl E. Anderson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Winners, 2018, 2019 and 2020
The Carl E. Anderson Award for Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation in Laser Science was established in 2013 and endowed by Charlotte Anderson in 2015. The award recognizes doctoral research in the Laser Science area and encourages effective written and oral presentation of research results. Four finalists, selected from an outstanding pool of applicants, are presented their work in a special session at the Laser Science conference.
The 2018 winner is Sara Campbell. The four finalists were:
Sara Campbell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA
A Fermi-degenerate 3D Optical Lattice Clock
Mark Dong, University of Michigan, USA
Quantum-well Diode Lasers for Frequency Comb Generation
Bin Fang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Manipulation of Photonic Quantum States: From Generation, Engineering, and Characterization to Storage and Retrieval
Pablo Solano, MIT, USA
Quantum Optics in Optical Nanofibers
The 2019 winner is Edoardo Baldini. The four finalists were:
Edoardo Baldini, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Nonequilibrium Dynamics of Collective Excitations in Strongly Interacting and Correlated Quantum Systems
Chitraleema Chakraborty, University of Rochester, USA Flatland Nanophotonics: A Study of Quantum-Confined Excitons in 2D Materials
Cong Chen, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA Attosecond Light Pulses and Attosecond Electron Dynamics Probed using Angle-Resolved Photoelectron Spectroscopy
Chen-Ting Liao, JILA at University of Colorado Boulder, USA Exploring Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics of Electrons by Attosecond Transient Absorption
The 2020 winner is James Gaynor. The four finalists were:
Alexander Craddock, University of Maryland, USA
Rydberg ensemble for quantum networking
James Gaynor, University of Washington, USA Ultrafast vibronic phenomena directly revealed by multidimensional electronic-vibrational spectroscopy
William Perreault, Stanford University, USA Quantum control of cold molecular collisions using Stark-induced adiabatic Raman passage
Minjung Son, MIT, USA Carotenoid-mediated light harvesting in plants uncovered with ultrabroadband two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy