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Kristan L. Corwin Biography
 
 
Dr. Kristan Corwin received her B.S. in Physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993, where she participated in the UB Honors Program. In 1996 she received a Masters of Science in Physics from the University of Colorado.
    
       
 
In 1999, Dr. Corwin completed her Ph.D. in Physics, also at the University of Colorado, under the direction of Dr. Carl Wieman, Distinguished Teaching Professor (at JILA). Her thesis, "A Circularly Polarized Optical Dipole Trap and Other Developments in Laser Trapping
    
and Cooling," explored several aspects of optical trapping, including the trapping of radioactive francium atoms and the creation of a cooled beam of atoms from an atom trap, called "LVIS".
 
Dr. Corwin worked from 2000-2001 in Paris, France, at l'Ecole Normale Superieure in the group of Christophe Salomon on quantum-degenerate Li atoms.
 
In 2001, her research interests shifted to ultrafast lasers for optical frequency Metrology. For 2 years in Boulder, CO at NIST in the group of Sarah Gilbert, she studied the nonlinear optical phenomenon of supercontinuum generation, and explored optical frequency metrology in the near infrared wavelength regime, of interest to the telecommunications industry.
 
In August 2003, Dr. Corwin brought the technology of optical frequency measurement and infrared pulsed lasers to Kansas State University. Her group is currently creating ultrafast stabilized lasers for optical frequency metrology, with the goal of improving the standards of the optical telecommunications industry.
 
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