After the somewhat grueling 24-hour flight from Baton Rouge to Okinawa, I arrived late Tuesday night local time. Given that I had just spent two weeks in Shanghai, which is only an hour different than here, I'm not jet lagged! Having missed dinner all together Tuesday evening, I raced down to the OIST cafeteria for breakfast Wednesday morning, which consisted of three slices of pizza, a boiled egg, a glass of orange juice, and a double-shot latte. I may not be regular again until the next Clinton administration.
At 9AM sharp Prof. Síle Nic Chormaic's postdoc, Dr. Jinjin Du, gave us a short tour of the local part of the island and then we had lab tours and discussions from 11AM until about 12:30PM, another break for pizza and coffee, and then back for more discussion on the transfer of higher-order modes of light through fibers to couple nonlinearly with neutral atoms — does LSU have a theory for that!
The Prof. Irina Novikova, my long-time collaborator gave the experimental version of our collaboration in a nice seminar on the generation of multimode squeezed light in rubidium vapor.
I will give the theory version of our collaboration tomorrow in a not so nice seminar. Next Síle (pronounced "Shelia" will be taking us out for local cuisine — Italian / Spanish / French food with local ingredients. Then tomorrow we do it all over again!
At 9AM sharp Prof. Síle Nic Chormaic's postdoc, Dr. Jinjin Du, gave us a short tour of the local part of the island and then we had lab tours and discussions from 11AM until about 12:30PM, another break for pizza and coffee, and then back for more discussion on the transfer of higher-order modes of light through fibers to couple nonlinearly with neutral atoms — does LSU have a theory for that!
The Prof. Irina Novikova, my long-time collaborator gave the experimental version of our collaboration in a nice seminar on the generation of multimode squeezed light in rubidium vapor.
I will give the theory version of our collaboration tomorrow in a not so nice seminar. Next Síle (pronounced "Shelia" will be taking us out for local cuisine — Italian / Spanish / French food with local ingredients. Then tomorrow we do it all over again!
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| My lovely little cottage on a cliff. |
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| View from my back porch. |
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| What have you done with my pet bottle, Cecil!? |
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| A used TOKAMAK that doubles as a tunnel? |
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| Eggxactly what the doctor ordered? |
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| OIST on approach. |
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| OIST koi pond. |
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| Hoist? |
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| Left to right: Alexandre Akoulchine, Irina Novikova, JinJin Du. |
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| "You can't take a photo of a hole — it is an absence of matter!" |
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| A relic from 1947? |
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| I can't define a photon, but I know one when I see one. |
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| Laser-cooled Rubidium atoms interact with an optical fiber. |
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| OIST PhD Student, Thomas Nieddu, explains why it is all very "cool". |
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| Irina regales us with tales of experiments for multimode squeezed light |
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| View from my office. |
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