Julia Schafer
San Diego State University

I received my Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington.  I am currently working towards my Ph.D. in the joint doctoral program at San Diego State University and University of California at San Diego.  My area of research is in analytical chemistry, specifically non-linear spectroscopic methods.  I am currently working on new ultra-sensitive detection methods for gas-phase analysis of environmental samples in an Inductively Coupled Plasma based on degenerate four-wave mixing.  I am also studying the many applications of degenerate four-wave mixing as a sensitive analytical tool for biological samples.


Papers and Presentations
Mickadeit, F., Kemp, H., Schafer, J., and Tong, W. G., "Sensitive Sub-Doppler Nonlinear
Spectroscopy for Hyperfine Structure Analysis", Proc. SPIE-Intl. Soc. Opt. Eng. Methods for
Ultrasensitive Detection, Vol. 3270, 168-173 (1998).

Schafer, J., Mickadeit, F., Tong, W. G., "Sensitive Nonlinear Wave-Mixing Detection Method for
Plasma Spectrochemical Analysis", 1997 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy,
American Chemical Society & Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Hyatt Regency, Irvine, CA,
October 21-25, 1997.

Mickadeit, F., Kemp, H., Schafer, J., and Tong, W. G., "Sensitive Sub-Doppler Nonlinear
Spectroscopy for Hyperfine Structure Analysis", SPIE Symposium on High-Power Lasers and
Applications, Methods for Ultrasensitive Detection, San Jose, CA, January 24-30, 1998 (Invited
paper).

Schafer, J., Mickadeit, F., Tong, W. G., Multiphoton Spectroscopy Using an Inductively
Coupled Plasma Atomizer", 1998 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy,
American Chemical Society & Society for Applied Spectroscopy, San Francisco, CA, October,
1998.

Schafer, J., Tong, W. G., “History and Application of Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing as a
Sensitive Nonlinear Spectroscopic Method”, Workshop on Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy
as a Sensitive Analytical Tool, Telluride Summer Research Center, Telluride, CO. July 17-25, 1999.

Lopez, M. M., Schafer, J., Knittle, J., Tong, W. G., "Thermal and Solvent Effects on Nonlinear
Absorption Spectrometric Measurement of Liquid Analytes", 1999 Pacific Conference on
Chemistry and Spectroscopy, American Chemical Society & Society for Applied
Spectroscopy, Ontario, CA, October 6-8, 1999.

Schafer, J., Mickadeit, F., Tong, W. G., "Multi-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy Using Plasma
Atomizers", 1999 Pacific Conference on Chemistry and Spectroscopy, American Chemical
Society & Society for Applied Spectroscopy, Ontario, CA, October 6-8, 1999.



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