Exploring the World with the Laser

Prof. Dr. Tilman Esslinger Head of the Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Research area: Quantum gases, quantum simulation, quantum optics Major scientific accomplishments: first experimental realization of a Fermi-Hubbard model and the Mott insulator using a fermionic quantum gas trapped in an optical lattice, measurement of the critical exponent of the correlation length in a Bose gas, first realization of a one-dimensional atomic quantum gas, cavity QED and cavity opto-mechanics with Bose- Einstein condensates, observation of the Dicke quantum phase transition, optical lattices with Dirac points, realization of the topological Haldane model, observation of quantized conductance in a Fermi gas. Prof. Dr. Dieter Meschede Head of Quantum Technology group at University Bonn, Germany Editor-in-Chief of the journal Applied Physics B - Lasers and Optics, Research interests: Quantum technologies with single neutral atoms, few-atom quantum systems, discrete-time quantum walks, cavity QED, digital quantum simulators Prof. Dr. Thomas Udem Permanent research associate at the Laser spectroscopy division / Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics / Garching and Institute of Physics Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany. Research interests: Ultraprecise laser spectroscopy, Frequency combs in the extreme ultraviolet, High harmonic generation, Atomic physics with ion traps, Precision spectroscopy of single atoms, hydrogen and hoydrogen-like systems, Test of fundamental laws, Search for slowly varying constants, Frequency combs infrared and extreme ultraviolet, Ion traps, Intra-cavity high harmonic generation

From quantum transitions to electronic motions.- Nonadiabatic molecular alignment of linear molecules probed by photoelectron ionization yields.- Ultracold metastable helium: Ramsey fringes and atom interferometry.- Monolayer graphene as dissipative membrane in an optical resonator.- Cavity ring-up spectroscopy for dissipative and dispersive sensing in a whispering gallery mode resonator.- Quantum electrodynamics, high-resolution spectroscopy, and fundamental constants.- Yb fiber amplifier at 972.5 nm with frequency quadrupling to 243.1 nm.- Absorption spectroscopy of xenon and ethylene-noble gas mixtures at high pressure: Towards Bose-Einstein condensation of vacuum ultraviolet photons.- Ranging with frequency-shifted feedback lasers: from $mu$m-range accuracy to MHz-range measurement rate.- Laser phase spectroscopy in closed-loop multilevel schemes.- Sensitivity and resolution in frequency comb spectroscopy of buffer gas cooled polyatomic molecules.- Precision measurements and test of molecular theory in highly-excited vibrational states of H_2 _(v=11).- Quantum regime of a free-electron laser: relativistic approach.- Coherence in laser-driven electrons at and in solid matter.- Unexpectedly large difference of the electron density at the nucleus in the 4p 2P1/2,3/2 fine-structure doublet of Ca+.- A 10^15 watt laser for DT Fusion Experiments at Livermore.- New avenues for matter-wave enhanced spectroscopy.- Extraction of enhanced, ultrashort laser pulses from a passive 10-MHz stack-and-dump cavity.- Adjacency Graphs and Long-Range Interactions of Atoms in Quasi-Degenerate States: Applied Graph Theory.- External Cavity Diode Laser Setup with Two Interference Filters.- Phase-stable, multi-µJ femtosecond pulses from a repetition-rate tuneable Ti:Sa-oscillator-seeded Yb-fiber amplifier.- High-precision spectroscopy of the HD+ molecule at the 1-p.p.b. level.- Bose-Einstein condensates in an optical cavity with sub-recoil bandwidth.- Ultrafast optomechanical pulse picking.- Parity-nonconserving interaction induced light shifts in the 7S_{1/2} - 6D_{3/2} transition of the ultracold Fr-210 atoms to probe new physics beyond the standard model.- High-accuracy deep-UV Ramsey-comb spectroscopy in krypton.- Optical Autler-Townes spectroscopy in a heteronuclear mixture of laser-cooled atoms.- A compact echelle spectrograph for characterization of astro-combs.- Measuring and imaging nanomechanical motion with laser light.- Shifting the phase of a coherent beam with a Yb-174 ion: influence of the scattering cross section.- Orientational dependence of optically detected magnetic resonance signals in laser-driven atomic magnetometers.- ^nd many-body QED tests.- Index.