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Funding:

NSF: National Science Foundation
MRI: Major Research Instrumentation
RUI: Research at an Undergraduate Institution

Books:

Publications:

Raven Lab publications since 2018
* indicates an undergraduate author
Will Raven's publishing name is W. D. Williams

  1. “Precision measurement of the absolute energy of the 2s3s 1S0 state in neutral beryllium-9”
    K. J. Ahrendsen, T. Karani,* and W. D. Williams, Physical Review A, 110, 032818 (2024)
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.110.032818
  2. “Spectroscopic study of the 4f76s2 8S7/2 – 4f7(8So) 6s6p(1Po) 8P5/2,7/2 transitions in neutral europium-151 and europium-153: absolute frequency and hyperfine structure”
    C. Maruko,* N. N. Çölmek,* M. T. Herd, K. J. Ahrendsen, B. Cabrales,* G. Cannon,* E. Davis,* X. Y. Guo,* T. Karani,* A. Wallace,* K. Wisnauckas,* and W. D. Williams, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 41, 5 (2024)
    DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.521181
  3. “Absolute frequency measurement of the 2p2(3P)3s 2P – 2p2(3P)3p 2Do transitions in neutral 14N”
    K. J. Ahrendsen, C. Maruko,* K. R. Albert-Aranovich,* Q. Berfield-Brewer,* A. Esseln,* L. Guo,* A. E. Ishimwe,* Y. Kuzniar,* A. E. McKenna,* K. J. Soto Villarreal,* A. Uprety,* L. Vieira da Silva,* K. F. Vogt,* and W. D. Williams, Physical Review A 108, 042815 (2023)
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.108.042815
  4. “Spectroscopic study of the 4f7 6s2 8S7/2- 4f7 (8S)6s6p (1P) 8P9/2 transition in neutral europium-151 and europium-153: absolute frequency and hyperfine structure”
    M. T. Herd, C. Maruko,* M. M. Herzog,* A. Brand,* G. Cannon,* B. Duah,* N. Hollin,* T. Karani,* A. Wallace,* M. Whitmore,* and W. D. Williams, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 39, 10 (2022)
    DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.467968
  5. “Absolute frequency measurement of the 6D5/2 level of neutral 133Cs using two-photon spectroscopy”
    M.-T. Herd, E. C. Cook, and W. D. Williams, Physical Review A, 104, 042812 (2021)
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.104.042812
  6. “Pulsed triple frequency modulation for frequency stabilization and control of two lasers to an optical cavity”
    W. D. Williams, M.-T. Herd, and E. C. Cook, Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 085116 (2020)
    DOI: 10.1063/5.0010085
  7. “Resonant 2 photon spectroscopy on the 2s3d 1D2 state in neutral beryllium-9”
    E. C. Cook, A. D. Vira and W. D. Williams, Physical Review A, 101, 042503 (2020)
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.101.042503
  8. “Catalysis of Stark-tuned interactions between ultracold Rydberg atoms”
    A. L. Win, W. D. Williams, T. Carroll, and C. I. Sukenik, Physics Review A, 98, 032703 (2018)
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.98.032703
  9. “Testing quantum electrodynamics in the lowest singlet state of neutral beryllium-9”
    E. C. Cook, A. D. Vira,* C. Patterson,* E. Livernois,* and W. D. Williams, Physical Review Letters, 121, 053001 (2018)
    DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.053001
  10. “Spectroscopic study of the 7p1/2 and 7p3/2 states in cesium-133: Hyperfine structure and absolute energy”
    W. D. Williams, M.-T. Herd, and W. B. Hawkins, Laser Physics Letters, 15(9), 095702 (2018)
    DOI: 10.1088/1612-202X/aac97e
  11. “Calibrating an ultra-low expansion cavity for high precision spectroscopy from 630 THz to 685 THz using molecular tellurium lines”
    C. Patterson,* A. D. Vira,* M.-T. Herd, W. B. Hawkins, and W. D. Williams, Review of Scientific Instruments, 89, 033107 (2018)
    DOI: 10.1063/1.5008290