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Kristan Corwin (Fed)
Division Chief
Dr. Kristan Corwin is chief of the Applied Physics Division in the Physical Measurement Laboratory (PML) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The Division, located in Boulder, CO, is responsible for laser metrology, quantum metrology, quantitative imaging, and other application of photonic and magnetic technologies.
Dr. Corwin received a B.S. in Physics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1993, and earned both a M.S. and Ph.D. degree at the University of Colorado in laser trapping and cooling under the direction of Nobel Prize Winner Carl Wieman. After a postdoctoral position at École Normale Supérieure in ultracold quantum gasses with Christophe Salomon, she joined NIST Boulder Laboratories as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow working with optical frequency combs. From 2003 – 2019 at Kansas State University she rose to the positions of Ernest K. and Lillian E. Chapin Professor of Physics and then Associate Dean for Research in the College of Arts and Sciences. Her research interests center on in nonlinear optics, frequency metrology, and novel laser systems, emphasizing gas-filled hollow optical fibers.
She is a Fellow of Optica (formerly the Optical Society), has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed publications, holds several patents, received multiple teaching awards, and has served as principal investigator for many millions of dollars of research grants, including leading a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program. In 2015, she was a visiting fellow at JILA, University of Colorado and NIST. She formerly chaired the American Physical Society Division of Laser Science (APS DLS) and received the APS Five Sigma Physicist Award in 2019.
Selected Publications
- Sajed Hosseini-Zavareh, Ryan Luder, Manasadevi Thirugnanasambandam, HW Kushan Weerasinghe, Brian R Washburn, and Kristan L Corwin, “Fabrication and characterization of short acetylene-filled photonic microcells,” Applied Optics 58 (11), 2809-2816 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.58.002809
- Neda Dadashzadeh, Manasadevi P. Thirugnanasambandam, H. W. Kushan Weerasinghe, Benoit Debord, Matthieu Chafer, Frederic Gerome, Fetah Benabid, Brian R. Washburn, and Kristan L. Corwin, “Near diffraction-limited performance of an OPA pumped acetylene-filled hollow-core fiber laser in the mid-IR,” Optics Express 25, 13351-13358 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.25.013351
- V. Vasudevan Nampoothiri, Andrew M. Jones, C. Fourcade-Dutin, Chenchen Mao, Neda Dadashzadeh, Bastian Baumgart, Y.Y. Wang, M. Alharbi, T. Bradley, Neil Campbell, F. Benabid, Brian R. Washburn, Kristan L. Corwin, and Wolfgang Rudolph, “Hollow-core Optical Fiber Gas Lasers (HOFGLAS): a review,” Optical Materials Express, Vol. 2, Issue 7, pp. 948-961 (2012) 10.1364/OME.2.000948
- A.M. Jones, A V V Nampoothiri, A. Ratanavis, T. Fiedler, N. V. Wheeler, F. Couny, R. Kadel, F. Benabid, B. R. Washburn, K. L. Corwin, and W. Rudolph, “Mid-infrared gas filled photonic crystal fiber laser based on population inversion,” Optics Express, 19, 2309-2316 (2011). 10.1364/OE.19.002309
- K. Knabe, S. Wu, J. Lim, K. Tillman, P. Light, F. Couny, N. Wheeler, R. Thapa, A. Jones, J. Nicholson, B. Washburn, F. Benabid, and K. Corwin, "10 kHz accuracy of an optical frequency reference based on 12C2H2-filled large-core kagome photonic crystal fibers," Opt. Express 17, 16017-16026 (2009). 10.1364/OE.17.016017
- K. L. Corwin, N. R. Newbury, J. M. Dudley, S. Coen, S. A. Diddams, K. Weber, and R. S. Windeler, "Fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation in microstructure fiber," Physical Review Letters, 90, 113904 (2003).
- F. Schreck, L. Khaykovich, K. L. Corwin, G. Ferrari, T. Bourdel, J. Cubizolles, and C. Salomon, "Quasipure Bose-Einstein condensate immersed in a Fermi sea," Physical Review Letters, 87, 080403 (2001).
- K. L. Corwin, Z. T. Lu, C. F. Hand, R. J. Epstein, and C. E. Wieman, "Frequency-stabilized diode laser with the Zeeman shift in an atomic vapor," Applied Optics, 37, 3295-3298 (1998).
- Z. T. Lu, K. L. Corwin, M. J. Renn, M. H. Anderson, E. A. Cornell, and C. E. Wieman, "Low-velocity intense source of atoms from a magneto-optical trap," Physical Review Letters, 77, 3331-3334 (1996).
Patents
- “Fluid-Filled Hollow Optical Fiber Cell,” Kristan L. Corwin, Chenchen Wang, Ryan J. Luder, Sajed Hosseini Zavareh, and Brian Washburn, US Patent Number 10,534,134 (2020).
- “Gas Filled Hollow Fiber Laser,” Wolfgang Rudolph, Amarin Ratanavis, Vasudevan Nampoothiri, Kristan L. Corwin, Andrew M. Jones, Rajesh Kadel, Brian R. Washburn, Rajesh Kadel, and John M. Zavada, U.S. Patent Number 9,106,055, (2015).
- “A System and a Method for Frequency-Stabilizing a Diode Laser,” K. L. Corwin, Zheng-Tian Lu, Carter F. Hand, Ryan J. Epstein, and Carl E. Wieman, US Patent Number US6009111 (1999)