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EDUCATION

Doctor of Philosophy
Physics, January 1998, University of Oregon
Department of Physics and Oregon Center for Optics, Eugene, Oregon.

• Dissertation: "Squeezing in nonlinear optical waveguides." Adviser: Michael G. Raymer.

Bachelor of Science
Physics, June 1990, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Postdoctoral Fellow

Researcher with Prof. Ian Walmsley, University of Rochester, 1998 - present.

• Recorded fastest update rate for measurement of ultrashort laser pulses using real-time SPIDER.
• Observed spontaneous molecule formation in a Cs magneto-optic trap, a first step towards quantum control of cold molecules.
• Helped manage and advise group of 10 graduate students on thesis research and obtaining employment.
• Built numerous devices including blue SPIDER, real-time SPIDER, and The Ultralock 2000 (beam pointing stabilizer).

Instructor, University of Rochester, Spring 1999.

• Co-taught Optics 100 (introductory optics) with Prof. Turan Erdogan.
• Course covered geometrical, physical, and quantum optics.
• Created lesson plans, lectured, wrote homework and exams, created in-class demonstrations.

Instructor, Rochester Institute of Technology, Fall 1998.

• Taught introductory physics labs: mechanics, circuits, waves.
• Wrote homework assignments, exams, and assigned grades.
  

Graduate Student

Research Assistant, Prof. Mike Raymer’s Laboratory, University of Oregon, 1993 - 1997.

• First measurement (and current record) of squeezing in c(2) waveguides.
• First measurement of ultrafast photon statistics of a diode laser and microcavity polariton-exciton.
• Built Ti:Sapphire ultrafast laser system including chirped-pulse regenerative amplifier.
• Fully integrated computer control of experiment using LabView.

Volunteer Assistant, Prof. Ray Frey, University of Oregon, Fall 1994.

• Guest lectured and taught problem sessions for general physics.

Graduate Teaching Fellow, University of Oregon, 1990-1993.

• Taught microcomputer-based introductory physics labs.
  
  

Frequent contributor, Prof. David Sokoloff's Save Our Schools
program, University of Oregon.

• Contributed to continuing education program for high school science teachers.
• Demonstrated optical physics ideas to teachers and students.

Frequent volunteer, Outreach program, University of Oregon.

• Guest lecturer at local elementary and middle schools.
  

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY ACTIVITIES

Co-director, Holography Booth, APS Centennial Meeting in Atlanta, March 1999.

• Part of the APS Centennial Exhibit, sponsored by the Division of Laser Science.
• Made hundreds of personal-item holograms with visitors, to rave reviews.
• Helped design, transport, build, and run the holography darkroom.

Published Photograph

• "White light generation in water using ultrashort, near-infrared laser pulses," M. E. Anderson, After Image Photograph, Optics and Photonics News (August, 1996).

Memberships

• Optical Society of America.
• American Physical Society.
  

Reviewer

• Reviewed manuscripts for Physical Review A, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Applied Physics B.
  

Presider

• Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Santa Clara, California (1999).
  

President

• Oregon Society of Physics Students (1992).
  

REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

"The effects of noise on ultrashort optical pulse reconstruction using SPIDER," M. E. Anderson, L. E. E. de Araujo, E. M. Kosik and I. A. Walmsley, submitted to Applied Physics B special issue on ultrafast optics (1999).

"Real-time ultrashort pulse measurement," M. E. Anderson, T. M. Shuman, C. Iaconis and I. A. Walmsley, to appear in Optics & Photonics News’ Optics in ‘99 issue, (Dec. 1999).

"Real-time SPIDER: ultrashort optical pulse measurement at 20 Hz," T. M. Shuman, M. E. Anderson, J. Bromage, C. Iaconis, L. Waxer and I. A. Walmsley, Optics Express 5, 134 (1999).

"Pulsed squeezed-light generation in c(2)nonlinear waveguides," M. E. Anderson, D. F. McAlister, M. G. Raymer and M. C. Gupta, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14, 3180 (1997).

"Quadrature squeezing with ultrashort pulses in nonlinear-optical waveguides," M. E. Anderson, M. Beck, M. G. Raymer and J. D. Bierlein, Opt. Lett. 20, 620 (1995).

"Photon-number statistics from the phase-averaged quadrature-field distribution: Theory and ultrafast measurement," M. Munroe, D. Boggavarapu, M. E. Anderson and M. G. Raymer, Phys. Rev. A Rap. Comm. 52, R924 (1995).

PATENT

"Kinetically multicolored light source," #5,844,377 issued Dec. 1, 1998.

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

"Ultrafast balanced-homodyne chronocyclic spectrometer," M. E. Anderson, M. Munroe, U. Leonhardt, D. Boggavarapu, D. F. McAlister and M. G. Raymer, proceedings of Generation, Amplification, and Measurement of Ultrafast Laser Pulses III, San Jose, SPIE Vol. 2701, p. 142 (1996).

"High-efficiency, ultrafast photon-number statistics from phase-averaged homodyne detection," M. Munroe, D. Boggavarapu, M. E. Anderson, U. Leonhardt and M. G. Raymer, Coherence and Quantum Optics VII, edited by J. Eberly, L. Mandel, and E. Wolf (Plenum, New York, 1996).

"Ultrafast photon statistics of normal mode coupling in a semiconductor microcavity," D. Boggavarapu, D. F. McAlister, M. E. Anderson, M. Munroe, M. G. Raymer, H. Gibbs and G. Khitrova, proceedings of QELS, (Optical Society of America, 1996).

"Parametric amplification and squeezing in quasi-phase-matched waveguides," M. E. Anderson, M. Beck, M. G. Raymer and J. D. Bierlein, proceedings of Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, (Optical Society of America, 1995).

"Ultrafast, time-resolved photon number statistics," M. Munroe, D. Boggavarapu, M. E. Anderson, and M. G. Raymer, proceedings of QELS, (Optical Society of America, 1995).

"Imaging through scattering media using pulsed homodyne detection," M. Beck, M. E. Anderson and M. G. Raymer, proceedings of Advances in Optical Imaging and Photon Migration, Orlando (1994).

"Measurement of the Wigner function in quantum optics," M. G. Raymer, D. T. Smithey, M. Beck, M. E. Anderson and D. F. McAlister, proceedings of the Third International Wigner Symposium, Oxford (Sep. 1993).

PRESENTATIONS

"Really fast spiders: Ultrafast pulse measurement in real time," invited presentation at the Industrial Associates Meeting, The Institute of Optics, Rochester, New York, 1999.
"The effects of noise and phase-matching bandwidth on pulse reconstruction using SPIDER," Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Santa Clara, California, 1999.

"Squeezing in quasi-phase-matched LiTaO3waveguides and red loss induced by blue two-photon absorption," Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Rochester, New York, 1996.

"Squeezed light: cutting the quantum noise," invited presentation at the University of Oregon Chemical Physics Institute Retreat, Charleston, Oregon, 1996.

"Quadrature squeezing in nonlinear optical waveguides," Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, 1995.

"Parametric amplification and squeezing in quasi-phase-matched waveguides," Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, Dana Point, California, 1995.

"Squeezing with ultrashort lasers pulses in bulk crystals and waveguides," Optical Society of America Annual Meeting, Dallas, Texas, 1994.

"Imaging through scattering media using pulsed homodyne detection," Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Anaheim, California, 1994.

AWARDS AND HONORS

Received Department of Education Fellowship (1992 - 1994).
Received New Focus Travel Grant (CLEO 1994).
First place, U. of Oregon Physics Dept. Talent Show (1994, 1995, 1996).
Lifeguard of the Year, Del Mar, CA (1987).

PERSONAL

Junior Lifeguard Instructor, Del Mar, CA (1986 - 1990).
World Bodysurfing Champion, 12-14 age group (1981).
Hobbies: Film and video production, volleyball, basketball, soccer, hiking and camping with my wife, playing frisbee with my dog.