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John R. Lawall (Fed)
John Lawall is a physicist in the Microsystems and Nanotechnology Division in the Physical Measurement Laboratory. He received the BS in physics at Stanford University, where he did an honors thesis under the direction of Arthur Schawlow. Following his undergraduate education, he spent two years in Mali as a Peace Corps volunteer, teaching mathematics in a high school during the academic year and demonstrating the construction of wood-conserving mud stoves in the summer months. He subsequently went on to earn the PhD in experimental atomic physics at Harvard University with Francis Pipkin and Mara Prentiss, where he was supported by a fellowship from AT&T Bell Laboratories. Following the doctoral degree, he was the recipient of a Chateaubriand fellowship to do postdoctoral research at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris with Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Alain Aspect, and Michèle Leduc. He then came to NIST as a NRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the group of Bill Phillips, and has remained at NIST ever since. His research at NIST has been in the fields of high-precision interferometry, frequency combs, self-assembled quantum dots, and optomechanics. He spent five months as a Visiting Fellow at JILA in the group of Jun Ye. He commutes by bicycle and plays the viola with the Baroquean Strings at NIST.
Selected Publications
- Haitan Xu, Utku Kemiktarak, Jingyun Fan, Stephen Ragole, John Lawall and Jacob Taylor, Observation of optomechanical buckling transitions, Nature Communications DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14481 (2017).
- Corey Stambaugh, Haitan Xu, Utku Kemiktarak, Jacob Taylor, and John Lawall, From membrane-in-the-middle to mirror-in-the-middle with a high-reflectivity sub-wavelength grating, Annalen der Physik, DOI 10.1002/andp.201400142
- Utku Kemiktarak, Mathieu Durand, Michael Metcalfe, and John Lawall, Mode Competition and Anomalous Cooling in a Multimode Phonon Laser, Physical Review Letters, 113, 030802 (2014).
- Michael Metcalfe, Glenn Solomon, and John Lawall, Heterodyne measurement of resonant elastic scattering from epitaxial quantum dots, Applied Physics Letters 102, 231114 (2013).
- Utku Kemiktarak, Mathieu Durand, Michael Metcalfe, and John Lawall, Cavity optomechanics with sub-wavelength grating mirrors, New Journal of Physics 14, 125010 (2012).
- Mathieu Durand, Yicheng Wang, and John Lawall, Accurate Gouy phase measurement in an astigmatic optical cavity, Applied Physics B, DOI 10.1007/s00340-012-5147-x
- M. Durand, John Lawall, and Yicheng Wang, High-accuracy Fabry-Perot displacement interferometry using fiber lasers, Measurement Science and Technology 22, 094025 (2011).
- M. Metcalfe, S. M. Carr, A. Muller, G. S. Solomon, and J. Lawall, Resolved sideband emission of InAs/GaAs Quantum Dots Strained by Surface Acoustic Waves, Physical Review Letters 105, 037401 (2010).
- M. Metcalfe, A. Muller, G. Solomon, and J. Lawall, Active Feedback of a Fabry-Perot cavity to the emission of a single InAs/GaAs quantum dot, Journal of the Optical Society of America B, 26, 2308 (2009)
- John Lawall, Fabry–Perot metrology for displacements up to 50 mm, Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 22, 2786-2798 (2005)