Research
My research interests include precision atomic spectroscopy, femtosecond frequency combs, atomic clocks and magnetometers. I am currently setting up a lab for precision atomic spectroscopy utilizing a femtosecond frequency comb.
Background
National Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow 2005-2007
Optical Frequency Measurements Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Colorado
Ph.D. in Physics University of California at Berkeley 2005
Dissertation Title: Progress Towards Parity Nonconservation in Ytterbium
Thesis Advisors: Dmitry Budker and Stuart Freedman
M.A. in Physics University of California at Berkeley 2000
B.A. in Physics University of California at Berkeley 1998
Grants
National Institute of Standards and Technology Precision Measurements Grant— Awarded Fall 2008
Precision Spectroscopy of Cold Lithium Atoms with a Femtosecond Frequency Comb
Publications
N. Poli, Z.W. Barber, N.D. Lemke, C.W. Oates, L.S. Ma, J.E. Stalnaker, T.M. Fortier, S.A. Diddams, L. Hollberg, J.C. Bergquist, A. Brusch, S. Jefferts, T. Heavner, and T. Parker, “Frequency evaluation of the doubly forbidden 1S0 ® 3P0 transition in bosonic 174Yb,” Phys. Rev. A 77, 050501(R) (2008).
T. Rosenband, D.B. Hume, P.O. Schmidt, C.W. Chou, A. Brusch, L. Lorini, W.H. Oskay, R.E. Drullinger, T.M. Fortier, J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, W.C. Swann, N.R. Newbury, W.M. Itano, D.J. Wineland, and J.C. Bergquist, “Frequency ratio of Al+ and Hg+ single-ion optical clocks; metrology at the 17th decimal place,” Science 319, 1808 (2008).
A.D. Ludlow, T. Zelevinsky, G.K. Campbell, S. Blatt, M.M. Boyd, M.H.G. de Miranda, M.J. Martin, J.W. Thomsen, S.M. Foreman, J. Ye, T.M. Fortier, J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, Y. Le Coq, Z.W. Barber, N. Poli, N.D. Lemke, K.M. Beck, and C.W. Oates, “Sr lattice clock at 1 x 10-16 fractional uncertainty by remote optical evaluation with a Ca clock,” Science 319, 1805 (2008).
Z.W. Barber, J.E. Stalnaker, N.D. Lemke, C.W. Oates, T.M. Fortier, S.A. Diddams, L. Hollberg,and C. W. Hoyt,
“Optical Lattice Induced Light Shifts in a Yb Atomic Clock,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 103002 (2008).
S.M. Foreman, A.D. Ludlow, M. de Miranda, J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, and J. Ye, “Coherent optical carrier transfer over a 32-km fiber with long-term instability <10-17,” Phys. Rev. Lett 99, 153601 (2007).
J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, T.M. Fortier, K. Kim, L. Hollberg, J.C. Bergquist, W.M. Itano, M.J. Delany, L. Lorini, W.H. Oskay, T.P. Heavner, S.R. Jefferts, F. Levi, T.E. Parker and J. Shirley, “Optical-to-microwave frequency comparison with a fractional uncertainty of 10-15 ” Appl. Phys. B 89, 167 (2007).
K. Tsigutkin, J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and V. V. Yashchuk, “Towards measuring nuclear-spin-dependent and isotopic-chain atomic parity violation in Ytterbium”, in From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more..., Ed. by K. de Jager et al, Springer 2007 .
T. Rosenband, P.O. Schmidt, D.B. Hume, W.M. Itano, T.M. Fortier, J.E. Stalnaker, K. Kim, S.A. Diddams, J.C.J. Koelemeij, J.C. Bergquist and D.J. Wineland, “Observation of the 1S0 ® 3P0 clock transition in 27Al+," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 220801 (2007).
J.E. Stalnaker, Y. Le Coq, T.M. Fortier, S.A. Diddams, C.W. Oates and L. Hollberg, “Measurement of excited-state transitions in cold calcium atoms by direct femtosecond frequency-comb spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. A 75, 040502(R) (2007).
T.M. Fortier, N. Ashby, J.C. Bergquist, M.J. Delaney, S.A. Diddams, T.P. Heavner, L. Hollberg, W.M. Itano, S.R. Jefferts, K. Kim, F. Levi, L. Lorini, W.H. Oskay, T.E. Parker, J. Shirley and J.E. Stalnaker, “Improved limits on variation of the fine structure constant and violation of local position invariance,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070801 (2007).
M.C. Stowe, M.J. Thorpe, A. Pe'er, J. Ye, J.E. Stalnaker, V. Gerginov and S.A. Diddams, “Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy” in: Advances in Atomic, Molecular Physics and Optical Physics 55, E. Arimondo, P. Berman, C. Lin Eds. Elsevier (2007).
J.S. Guzman, A. Wojciechowski, J.E. Stalnaker, K. Tsigutkin, V.V. Yashchuk and D. Budker, “Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Zeeman and hyperfine relaxation of potassium atoms in a paraffin-coated cell,” Phys. Rev. A 74, 053415 (2006).
J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, K. Kim, L. Hollberg, E.A. Donley, T.P. Heavner, S.R. Jefferts, F. Levi, T.E. Parker, J.C. Bergquist, W.M. Itano, M.J. Jensen, L. Lorini, W.H. Oskay and T.M. Fortier, “Absolute Optical Frequency Measurements with a Fractional Frequency Uncertainty at 1 × 10-15,” International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition IEEE 2006, 462 (2006).
C.W. Oates, C.W. Hoyt, Y. Le Coq, Z.W. Barber, T.M. Fortier, J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams and L. Hollberg, “Stability Measurements of the Ca and Yb Optical Frequency Standards,” International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition IEEE 2006, 74 (2006).
T.M. Fortier, Y. Le Coq, J.E. Stalnaker, D. Ortega, S.A. Diddams, C.W. Oates and L. Hollberg, “Kilohertz-Resolution Spectroscopy of Cold Atoms with an Optical Frequency Comb,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 163905 (2006).
M.V. Balabas, D. Budker, J. Kitching, P.D.D. Schwindt and J.E. Stalnaker, “Magnetometry with millimeter-scale
antirelaxation-coated alkali-metal vapor cells,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23, 1001 (2006).
J.E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S.J. Freedman, J.S. Guzman, S.M. Rochester and V.V. Yashchuk, “Dynamic Stark effect and forbidden-transition spectral line shapes,” Phys. Rev. A 73, 43416 (2006).
M. Auzinsh, D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker, A.O. Sushkov and V.V. Yashchuk, “Can a quantum nondemolition measurement improve the sensitivity of an atomic magnetometer?,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 173002 (2004).
D. Budker and J.E. Stalnaker, “Magnetoelectric Jones dichroism in atoms,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263901 (2003).
J.E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, D.P. DeMille, S.J. Freedman and V.V. Yashchuk, “Experimental determination of the 6s2 1S0 ® 6s5d 3D1 magnetic-dipole transition amplitude in atomic ytterbium,” Phys. Rev. A 65, 031403(R) (2002).
D. English, D.F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, A.-T. Nguyen, S.M. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker, V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, S.J. Freedman and M. Zolotorev: “Atomic tests of discrete symmetries at Berkeley,” in: Art and Symmetry in Experimental Physics: Festschrift for Eugene D. Commins, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and P.H. Bucksbaum, Eds., AIP, pp. 108-122 (2001).
D.F. Kimball, D. Clyde, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, S. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker and M. Zolotorev, “Collisional perturbation of states in atomic ytterbium by helium and neon,” Phys. Rev. A 60, 1103 (1999).
C.J. Bowers, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, G. Gwinner and J.E. Stalnaker, “Experimental investigation of the 6s2 1S0 ® 6s5d 3D1,2 forbidden transitions in atomic ytterbium,” Phys. Rev. A 59, 3513 (1999).
