{"id":4894,"date":"2011-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-01T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpdev.hmc.edu\/physics\/2011\/01\/01\/femtosecond-laser-timing-measurement\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T08:00:00","slug":"femtosecond-laser-timing-measurement","status":"publish","type":"physics_clinic","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/research\/clinic\/projects\/femtosecond-laser-timing-measurement\/","title":{"rendered":"Femtosecond Laser Timing Measurement"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span id=\"clinic-sponsor\">SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory<\/span><br \/>\n<span id=\"clinic-year\">2011\u201312<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The SLAC clinic team is working with researchers from the LINAC Coherent Light Source, the world\u2018s brightest X-ray laser.\u00ac\u2020 Our goal is to reduce timing errors that occur when synchronizing laser pulses in their pump-probe experiments.\u00ac\u2020 Since researchers believe the current 250 femtosecond (( 2.5 times 10^{-13}~text{ s} )) timing error is primarily caused by their photodiodes, the team built a timing platform to characterize the errors introduced by these devices.<\/p>\n<p id=\"clinic-advisor\"><strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Richard Campbell Haskell.<\/p>\n<p id=\"clinic-team\"><strong>Team:<\/strong> Michael James Bowerman &#8217;13, Say (Josh) Young Cook &#8217;13, Chuhyon John Eom &#8217;13, Robert A. Hoyt &#8217;12, Kevin James Samrick &#8217;12, and Susan Tan &#8217;12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-4894","physics_clinic","type-physics_clinic","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_clinic\/4894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/physics_clinic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/physics_clinic"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}