General News
Congratulations to Xiaoxu Lu who recently defended her PhD thesis "Excitation of Helium to Rydberg States Using STIRAP".
Experiment News
The STIRAP experiment published results on the blackbody ionization of Rydberg atoms in PRA, a link to the article can be found in the STIRAP Publication List.
The ARP experiment published results of their numerical studies on the ARP force in PRA, a link to the article can be found in the ARP Publication List.
Both the ARP and STIRAP experiments recently presented posters at the 2011 DAMOP meeting. Links to the posters:
ARP
-Strong Optical Force Measurements Using Adiabatic Rapid Passage
-Dynamic Effects in Optical Forces Produced by Adiabatic Rapid Passage.
STIRAP
-Rydberg Atom Spectroscopy Enabled by Blackbody Radiation Ionization
-Absolute Efficiency for STIRAP Excitation of Rydberg States.