Kent's Web Page

Both my curriculum vitae (TXT,PDF,HTML) and resume (TXT,PDF,HTML) are available for downloading.

I designed/programmed the web page for my previous research group where I was a graduate student. Most of the web design remains, and much of the work going on there is still related to my previous research. Take a look!

	On a related note, I'm designing several Matlab-based GUIs/programs that simulate possible spectra in frequency-scanned multi-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy. These programs feature the ability to simulate spectra while including the effects of: finite laser Gaussian temporal pulsewidths (transform limited) low-order non-linear optical artifacts spectral resolution of output via monochromator inhomogeneous broadening and correlations of modes window contributions and phasematching factors for small angle input geometries. The codes also will allow conversion of fit parameters into non-linear values such as hyperpolarizabilites. More on what the codes can and cannot do will eventually be provided when they are completed. Created using one of these programs, example images here show changes that two nearby peaks make with each other based on a change in sign of a molecular parameter. The first is a typical fit, the second changes the sign of the product of transition dipoles of one of the peaks, the third changes the sign of the correlation factor of the top peak, and the fourth changes the correlation factor sign of the bottom peak (the diagonal is a reference line...the two peaks are best noticed in the last of the four images). This project is far along, but two technical snags are currently keeping it from getting completed. Ultimately, I intend to make this page be the repository of these programs (rather than to submit them to Matlab) as well as provide some help in getting them running. If you are interested, please feel free to contact me to find out the current state of the program. Multi-dimensional optical spectroscopies share some characteristics with NMR, but not every parameter has an analog, so it's not as simple as picking up an NMR book with this field. The two major purposes these modeling programs serve in the interest of multi-dimensional spectroscopy is in verifying the peaks are real (not an artifact of other interfering phenomena) and in understanding how nearby peaks interact with one another to see if the multi-dimensional methods can determine certain factors that the standard methods cannot.

My current research group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory involves a large number of projects (sorry about the missing sub-pages). The topics of quantum dot spectroscopy and ultrafast laser spectroscopy are where I work, and I occasionally get involved with the diamond stripper foil research. Our group is also active in nanophotonics research and was very recently active in projects involving photon entanglement, both of which I am(was) involved in. I also curently perform additional research in a second group involving advanced laser interfacing with mass spectrometry.

More on my current research projects will be posted, soon...