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Book

Fundamental Symmetry Tests: Reviews and Proposals

D. Budker, Parity Noncoservation in Atoms, Physics Beyond the Standard Model, proceedings of the Fifth Intrnational WEIN Symposium, P. Herczeg, C. M. Hoffman, and H. V. Klapdor-Kleingrothaus, eds. World Scientific, 1999; pp. 418-441.
D.F. Kimball, D. Budker, D.S. English, C.-H. Li, A.-T. Nguyen, S.M. Rochester, A.O. Sushkov, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Progress towards fundamental symmetry tests with nonlinear optical rotation, in: Art and Symmetry in Experimental Physics: Festschrift for Eugene D. Commins, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and Ph. Bucksbaum, Eds., AIP, 2001, pp. 84-107.
D. English, D.F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, A.-T. Nguyen, S.M. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker, V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, S.J. Freedman, and M. Zolotorev: Atomic tests of discrete symmetries at Berkeley, in: Art and Symmetry in Experimental Physics: Festschrift for Eugene D. Commins, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and Ph. Bucksbaum, Eds., AIP, 2001, pp. 108-122.
M. Zolotorev and D. Budker, Prospects for Measuring Parity Nonconservation in Hydrogenic Ions Using High-Energy Accelerators, "Parity Violation in Atoms and Electron Scattering" B. Frois and M. A. Bouchiat, eds., World Scientific, 1999, p. 364.
M. Zolotorev and D. Budker, Parity Nonconservation in Relativistic Hydrogenic Ions, Phys. Rev. Lett., 78(25), 4717 (1997).

Parity Nonconservation, variation of α, and related physics in Dysprosium

S. J. Ferrell, A. Cingoz, A. Lapierre, A.-T. Nguyen, N. Leefer, D. Budker, V. V. Flambaum, S. K. Lamoreaux, and J. R. Torgerson,
Investigation on the Gravitational Potential Dependence of the Fine-Structure Constant Using Atomic Dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 76(6), 062104 (2007) (arXiv:0708.0569)
A. Cingoz, A. Lapierre, A.-T. Nguyen, N. Leefer, D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, and J. R. Torgerson, Limit on the Temporal Variation of the Fine-Structure Constant Using Atomic Dysprosium, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 040801 (2007) (physics/0609014)
A. Cingoz, A.-T. Nguyen, D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, and J. R. Torgerson, Collisional perturbation of radio-frequency E1 transitions in an atomic beam of dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 72, 063409 (2005) (physics/0508148)
A. T. Nguyen, D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, and J. R. Torgerson, Sensitive search for the temporal variation of the fine structure constant using radio-frequency E1 transitions in atomic dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 69, 022105 (2004) (physics/0308104)
A.-T. Nguyen, G. D. Chern, D. Budker, and M. Zolotorev, Efficient population transfer in a multi-level system, Phys. Rev. A. 63, 013406 (2001).
A.-T. Nguyen, D.E. Brown, D. Budker, D. DeMille, D.F. Kimball, and M. Zolotorev, Search for PNC in Atomic Dysprosium, "Parity Violation in Atoms and Electron Scattering", B. Frois and M. A. Bouchiat, eds., World Scientific, 1999, p. 295.
A.-T. Nguyen, D. Budker, D. DeMille, and M. Zolotorev, Search for parity nonconservation in atomic dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 56(5), 3453-63 (1997).
D. Budker, D. DeMille, E.D. Commins, and M.S. Zolotorev, Experimental investigation of excited states in atomic dysprosium, Phys. Rev. A 50, 132-143 (1994).
D. DeMille, D. Budker, E. Commins, and M. Zolotorev, Nearly-Degenerate Opposite-Parity Levels in Atomic Dysprosium: A Novel System for the Study of Parity Non-Conservation, Moriond Workshop, 1994 (Word).

Parity Nonconservation and related physics in Ytterbium

K. Tsigutkin, J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and V. V. Yashchuk, Towards measuring nuclear-spin-dependent and isotopic-chain atomic parity violation in Ytterbium, in From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more..., Ed. by K. de Jager et al, Springer 2007. (physics/0608314)
J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, J. S. Guzman, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk, Dynamic Stark effect and forbidden-transition spectral lineshapes, Phys. Rev. A 73, 043416 (2006). (physics/0512111)
J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, D. P. DeMille, S. J. Freedman, and V.V. Yashchuk, Experimental determination of the 6s^2
1S₀->5d6s³D₁ magnetic-dipole transition amplitude in atomic ytterbium, Phys. Rev. A 65 (2002), 031403. (physics/0201026)
D. Budker and J. E. Stalnaker, Magnetoelectric Jones dichroism in atoms Phys. Rev. Lett., 91(26), 263901 (2003). (physics/0302096)
D.F. Kimball, D. Clyde, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, S. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker, and M. Zolotorev, Collisional Perturbation of States in Atomic Ytterbium by Helium and Neon, Phys. Rev. A 60(2), 1103 (1999).
C.J. Bowers, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, G.Gwinner, and J.E. Stalnaker, Experimental investigation of the 6s^{2 1}S₀→5d6s ³D_1,2 forbidden transitions in atomic ytterbium, Phys. Rev. A 59(5), 3513 (1999).
C.J. Bowers, D. Budker, E.D. Commins, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, A.-T. Nguyen, S.-Q. Shang, and M. Zolotorev, Experimental investigation of excited state lifetimes in atomic ytterbium,Phys. Rev. A 53(5), 3103-9 (1996).
B. DeBoo, D. F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, and D. Budker, Multichannel Conical Emission and Parametric and Nonparametric Nonlinear Processes in Yb vapor, JOSA B, 18(5), 639-645 (2001).
D.F. Kimball, Parity-nonconserving optical rotation on the 6s6p ³P₀→6s6p ¹P₁ transition in atomic ytterbium, Phys. Rev. A 63, 052113 (2001).

Investigation of paraffin-coated cells for magnetometers, atomic clocks, etc.; Light-Induced Atomic Desorption

T. Karaulanov, M. T. Graf, D. English, S. M. Rochester, Y. Rosen, K. Tsigutkin, D. Budker, E. B. Alexandrov, M. V. Balabas, D. F. Jackson Kimball, F. A. Narducci, S. Pustelny, V. V. Yashchuk, Controlling atomic vapor density in paraffin-coated cells using light-induced atomic desorption, arXiv:0806.0663v1
J. S. Guzman, A. Wojciechowski, J. E. Stalnaker, K. Tsigutkin, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Zeeman and hyperfine relaxation of potassium atoms in a paraffin-coated cell, Phys. Rev. A 74(5) 053415 (2006); physics/0607061
M. T. Graf, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, K. Kerner, C. Wong, D. Budker, E. B. Alexandrov, M. V. Balabas, and V. V. Yashchuk, Relaxation of atomic polarization in paraffin-coated cesium vapor cells, Phys. Rev. A 72, 023401 (2005); physics/0503202
D. Budker, L. Hollberg, D. F. Kimball, J. Kitching, S. Pustelny, and V. V. Yashchuk, Investigation of microwave transitions and nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in anti-relaxation-coated cells, Phys. Rev. A 71, 012903 (2005); physics/0408009
E. B. Alexandrov, M. V. Balabas, D. Budker, D. S. English, D.F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, and V.V. Yashchuk, Light-Induced Desorption of Alkali Atoms from Paraffin Coating, Phys. Rev. A 66, 042903 (2002); erratum: http://arXiv.org/abs/physics/0406154

Nonlinear magneto- and electro-optics; atomic magnetometry

V. M. Acosta, M. Auzinsh, W. Gawlik, P. Grisins, J. M. Higbie, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, L. Krzemien, M. P. Ledbetter, S. Pustelny, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker, Production and detection of atomic hexadecapole at Earth's magnetic field; Optics Express 16(15), 11423-11430 (2008) ; Animation of the Experiment F=2->F'=1; Animation of the Experiment F=2->F'=2
M. P. Ledbetter, I. M. Savukov, V. M. Acosta, D. Budker, and M. V. Romalis, Spin-exchange relaxation free magnetometry with Cs vapor, Phys. Rev. A77(3), 033408 (2008); http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1012
Review article: D. Budker and M. V. Romalis, Optical Magnetometry, Nature Physics 3, 227 - 234 (2007); physics/0611246
S. Pustelny, A. Wojciechowski, M. Kotyrba, K. Sycz, J. Zachorowski, W. Gawlik, A. Cingoz, N. Leefer, J. M. Higbie, E. Corsini, M. P. Ledbetter, S. M. Rochester, A. O. Sushkov, and D. Budker, All-optical atomic magnetometers based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with amplitude modulated light, Proceedings of SPIE 6604 (2007); physics/0610253

M. P. Ledbetter, V. M. Acosta, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, S. Pustelny, and V. V. Yashchuk, Detection of radio frequency magnetic fields using nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Phys. Rev. A75(2), 023405 (2007); physics/0609196

S. Xu, M. H. Donaldson, A. Pines, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, and V. V. Yashchuk, Application of atomic magnetometry in magnetic particle detection, Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 224105 (2006); physics/0609197; this paper is also available from the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology
J. M. Higbie, E. Corsini, and D. Budker, Robust, High-Speed, All-Optical Atomic Magnetometer, Rev. Sci. Instr. 77(11), 113106 (2006); physics/0609041
S. Pustelny, D. F. Jackson Kimball, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, Influence of magnetic-field inhomogeneity on nonlinear magneto-optical resonances, Phys. Rev. A 74, 063406 (2006); physics/0608109; this paper is also available from Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science
S. Pustelny, S. M. Rochester, D. F. Jackson Kimball, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, and W. Gawlik, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with modulated light in tilted magnetic fields, Phys. Rev. A 74, 063420 (2006); physics/0606257; this paper is also available from Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science
V. Acosta, M. P. Ledbetter, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, D. F. Jackson-Kimball, D. C. Hovde, W. Gawlik, S. Pustelny, and J. Zachorowski, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light in the geophysical field range, Phys. Rev. A 73, 053404 (2006), physics/0602109
S. Pustelny, D. F. Jackson Kimball, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker, Pump-probe nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency modulated light, Phys. Rev. A 73, 023817 (2006); physics/0511123
M. V. Balabas, D. Budker, J. Kitching, P. D. D. Schwindt, and J. E. Stalnaker, Magnetometry with millimeter-scale anti-relaxation-coated alkali-metal vapor cells; JOSA B 23(6), 1001 (2006), physics/0511003
W. Gawlik, L. Krzemien, S. Pustelny, D. Sangla, J. Zachorowski, M. Graf, A.O. Sushkov, and D. Budker, Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Rotation with Amplitude-Modulated Light; Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 131108 (2006), physics/0510207
Review article: E. B. Alexandrov, M. Auzinsh, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk, Dynamic effects in nonlinear magneto-optics of atoms and molecules; in a Special Issue of JOSA B on Nonlinear and Integrated Magneto-Optics; JOSA B 22(1), 7-20 (2005); physics/0405049
Book chapter: Yu. Malakyan, D. Budker, S. Rochester, D. Kimball, V. Yashchuk and W. Gawlik, Selective Control of High-Order Atomic Coherences, in Decoherence, Entanglement and Information Protection in Complex Quantum Systems, NATO Science Series, v. 189, V.M. Akulin, A. Sarfati, G. Kurizki and S. Pellegrin, Eds., pp. 91-104, Springer Netherlands, 2005
Comment: D. Budker and S. M. Rochester, A relation between electromagnetically induced absorption resonances and nonlinear magneto-optics in Lambda-systems, Phys. Rev. A 70, 025804 (2004); physics/0310066
Yu. P. Malakyan, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, and V. V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation of frequency-modulated light resonant with a low-J transition, Phys. Rev. A. 69, 013817 (2004). physics/0309061
V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, W. Gawlik, D.F. Kimball, Yu. P. Malakyan, S.M. Rochester, Selective addressing of high-rank atomic polarization moments, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 253001 (2003) ; physics/0302079.
D. Budker, A new spin on magnetometry (Nature News and Views), Nature 422, 574 (2003).
Review article: D. Budker, W. Gawlik, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, V.V. Yashchuk, A. Weis, Resonant nonlinear magneto-optical effects in atoms; Rev. Mod. Phys. 74, 1153 (2002), physics/0203007
S.M. Rochester and D. Budker, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in optically thick media, Journal of Modern Optics, 49(14-15), 2543-2553 (2002). physics/0202071
D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light, Phys. Rev. A 65, 055403 (2002).
D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear Electro-and Magneto-Optical Effects related to Bennett Structures, Phys. Rev. A 65, 033401 (2002).
S.M. Rochester, D. S. Hsiung, D. Budker, R. Y. Chiao, D.F. Kimball, and V.V. Yashchuk, Self-rotation of resonant elliptically polarized light in collision-free rubidium vapor, Phys. Rev. A. 63, 043814 (2001).
D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, New developments in nonlinear optical rotation (ICAP-2000 abstract).
D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear Magneto-optical Rotation via Alignment-to-Orientation Conversion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2088 (2000).
D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Sensitive Magnetometry based on Nonlinear Magneto-Optical Rotation, Phys. Rev. A 62, 043403 (2000).
D. Budker, R.Y. Chiao, D. S. Hsiung, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear precession of the polarization ellipse in resonant atomic media: two-level systems and Rb (QELS-2000, paper QFC4).
V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, and J. Davis, Laser Frequency Stabilization Using Linear Magneto-Optics, Rev. Sci. Instr. 71(2), 341, 2000.
D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear electro-optic effects in resonant atomic media: a novel tool for precision atomic spectroscopy and electromagnetic field measurements (A Proposal), LBNL PUB-5453, Berkeley, California, December, 1999
D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear magneto-optics and reduced group velocity of light in atomic vapor with slow ground state relaxation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83(9), 1767 (1999).
D. Budker, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Magneto-Optic Effects with Ultra-Narrow Widths, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81(26), 5788 (1998).
V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, and M. Zolotorev, Applications of Nonlinear Magneto-Optic Effects with Ultra-Narrow Widths, in: Trapped Charged Particles and Fundamental Physics, D.H.E. Dubin and D. Schneider, eds. AIP conference proceedings 457, pp. 177-181.
D. Budker, D.J. Orlando, and V.V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear Laser Spectroscopy and Magneto-Optics (Word-97); Am. J. Phys. 67(7), 584 (1999).
D. Budker, V.V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Resonant Magneto-Optical Rotation: New Twists in an Old Plot (Word-97, PDF, .rtf, or .PS); Sib. J. Phys.1 (1999); see also: Abstract for ICAP-16.

Novel magnetometry

J.M. Taylor, P. Cappellaro, L. Childress, L. Jiang, D. Budker, P. R. Hemmer, A.Yacoby, R. Walsworth, M. D. Lukin, High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale
resolution. (arXiv:0805.1367)

Squeezed light, squeezed spins

M. Auzinsh, D. Budker D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, J. E. Stalnaker, A. O. Sushkov, and V. V. Yashchuk, Can a quantum nondemolition measurement improve the sensitivity of an atomic magnetometer? Phys. Rev. Lett. 93(17), 173002 (2004); physics/0403097 . Details of some calculations are given in the companion note physics/0407125
A.B. Matsko, I. Novikova, G.R. Welch, D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, Vacuum squeezing in atomic media via self-rotation, Phys. Rev. A 66, 043815 (2002); quant-ph/0112072

Nuclear magnetic and quadrupole resonance (and non-resonance), imaging

C. W. Crawford, Shoujun Xu, Eric J. Siegel, Dmitry Budker, and Alexander Pines, Fluid-flow characterization with nuclear spins without magnetic resonance, Applied Physics Letters 93(9), 092507 (2008).
Shoujun Xu, Elad Harel, David J. Michalak, Charles W. Crawford, Dmitry Budker, and Alexander Pines, Flow in porous metallic materials: a magnetic resonance imaging study, Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging 28 (2008), in press
Shoujun Xu, C. W. Crawford, Simon Rochester, Valeriy Yashchuk, Dmitry Budker, and Alexander Pines, Submillimeter-resolution magnetic resonance imaging at the Earth's magnetic field with an atomic magnetometer, Phys. Rev. A 78(1), 013404 (2008). This paper is also available from the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research.
F. Verpillat, M. P. Ledbetter, D. Budker, S. Xu, D. Michalak, C. Hilty, L.-S. Bouchard, S. Antonijevic, and A. Pines, Detection of nuclear magnetic resonance with an anisotropic magnetoresistive sensor; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0712129105, http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.2365
M. P. Ledbetter, I. M. Savukov, D. Budker, V. Shah, S. Knappe, J. Kitching, D. J. Michalak, S. Xu, and A. Pines, Zero-field remote detection of NMR with a microfabricated atomic magnetometer, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 10.1073/pnas.0711505105
S. Xu, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, M. H. Donaldson, and D. Budker, Construction and applications of an atomic magnetic gradiometer based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 77, 083106 (2006).
S. Xu, V. V. Yashchuk, M. H. Donaldson, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, and A. Pines, Magnetic resonance imaging with an optical magnetometer, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 10.1073/pnas.0605396103; see also an article about this work in Chemical&Engineering News, Berkeley Lab Research News, and MIT Technology Review
V. V. Yashchuk, J. Granwehr, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, A. H. Trabesinger, J. T. Urban, D. Budker, and A. Pines, Hyperpolarized xenon nuclear spins detected by optical atomic magnetometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93(16), 160801 (2004); physics/0404090.
D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, J. T. Urban, Alignment-to-orientation conversion and nuclear quadrupole resonance, Chem. Phys. Lett. 378(3-4), 440-448 (2003).

Atomic spectroscopy at low temperatures; electro-optics of cryogenic liquids

A. O. Sushkov, D. Budker, Production of long-lived atomic vapor inside high-density buffer gas, Phys. Rev. A 77, 042707 (2008); http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.1743
A. O. Sushkov, E. Williams, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, and S. K.Lamoreaux, Kerr effect in liquid helium at temperatures below the superfluid transition, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 153003 (2004); physics/0403143
V.V. Yashchuk, A.O. Sushkov, D. Budker, E.R. Lee, I.T. Lee, M.L. Perl, Production of dry powder clots using a piezoelectric drop generator; Rev. Sci. Instr. 73(6), 2331 (2002).

Condensed-matter EDM experiments

L.-S. Bouchard, A. O. Sushkov, D. Budker, J. J. Ford, A. S. Lipton, Nuclear-spin relaxation of ²⁰⁷Pb in ferroelectric powders, Phys. Rev. A 77(2), 022102 (2008); http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1392
D. Budker, S. K. Lamoreaux, A. O. Sushkov, and O. P. Sushkov, On the sensitivity of condensed-matter P- and T-violation experiments, Phys. Rev. A 73, 022107 (2006); cond-mat/0511153

Spectroscopy of Samarium

S.M. Rochester, C.J. Bowers, D. Budker, D. DeMille, and M. Zolotorev, Measurement of Lifetimes and Tensor Polarizabilities of Odd Parity States of Sm I, Phys. Rev. A. 59(5), 3480 (1999).

Spectroscopy of Barium

C.-H. Li and D. Budker, Polarization dependent photoionization cross-sections and radiative lifetimes of atomic states in Ba, Phys. Rev. A, 74, 012512 (2006), physics/0602189
C.H. Li, S.M. Rochester, M.G. Kozlov, and D. Budker, Unusually large polarizabilities and "new" atomic states in Ba, Phys. Rev. A 69, 042507 (2004), physics/0307060 (this is a more detailed version than the PRA).

Tests of quantum statistics

D. DeMille, D. Budker, N. Derr, and E. Deveney, Search for Exchange-Antisymmetric Two-Photon States, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83(20), 3978 (1999).
D. DeMille, D. Budker, N. Derr, and E. Deveney, How we know that photons are bosons: experimental tests of spin-statistics for photons, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Spin-Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations: Experimental Tests and Theoretical Implications, Anacapri, Italy, May 31-June 3, 2000, R. C. Hilborn and G. M. Tino, Eds., AIP Conf. Procs. #545, 2000, p. 227.
D. English, D. Budker, and D. DeMille, Towards an improved test of Bose-Einstein statistics for photons, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Spin-Statistics Connection and Commutation Relations: Experimental Tests and Theoretical Implications, Anacapri, Italy, May 31-June 3, 2000, R. C. Hilborn and G. M. Tino, Eds., AIP Conf. Procs. #545, 2000, p. 281.

Optics

B. K. Park, A. O. Sushkov, and D. Budker, Precision polarimetry with real-time mitigation of optical-window birefringence, Rev. Sci. Instr. 79, 013108 (2008), http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.2110
I. Savukov and D. Budker, Waveplate retarders based on overhead transparencies, Applied Optics, 46(22), 5129-5136 (2007), physics/0702225
A. O. Sushkov, E. Williams, and D. Budker, On the transmission of light through tilted interference filters, physics/0504176.
D. Budker, S.M. Rochester, and V.V. Yashchuk, Obtaining Frequency Markers of Variable Separation with a Spherical Mirror Fabry-Perot Interferometer, Rev. Sci. Instr. 71(8), 2984 (2000).

K. Kerner, S.M. Rochester, V.V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker, Variable Free Spectral Range Spherical Mirror Fabry-Perot Interferometer, physics/0306144.

This is a picture (taken by Damon English) of a spot pattern of a dye-laser beam (556 nm) transmitted through a symmetric spherical cavity with mirror separation adjusted to a "magic" value with N=11. Please read the two papers above to find out more.

Miscellaneous Papers

M. V. Balabas, A. O. Sushkov, and D. Budker, Rubidium "whiskers" in a vapor cell, Nature Physics 3, 2 (2007); physics/0611250
M. Stewart Siu and Dmitry Budker, Solidification pipes: from solder pots to igneous rocks, physics/9911057.
S.M. Rochester and D. Budker, Atomic Polarization Visualized, Am. Journ. Phys. 69(3), (2001). Animated examples
D. Budker, Electrons in a Shell (Word-97), Am. Journ. Phys. 66(7), 572 (1998).
D. Budker, Some rules of good scientific writing, physics/0608246, to appear in Berkeley Scientific.

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