William Angerer - Department of Physics and Astronomy - University ...

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I am most grateful to my advisor, Professor Arjun G. Yodh, for his guidance.
support. and encouragement. He was always willing to critically discuss ideas and
suggest possible remedies to my many scientific difficulties. He has inspired me to
achieve high standards in my research and has promoted my development both in
and out of the lab.
I would also like to thank Dr. Mohsen Yeganeh for introducing me to nonlinear
optical spectroscopy, for collaborating with me on my experiments, and for writing
an excellent thesis, which has been an invaluable reference. Professor Anthony Garito
generously shared his lab with me. I thank him for providing the equipment for the
photoluminescence measurements of GaN. Professor Gene Mele has enthusiastically
discussed theoretical physics with me. I thank him for his guidance.
Several people contributed to the nonlinear optical microscopy of carbon
nanoropes project. In particular, I thank Professor Alan Johnson and Rad Antonov
for providing the carbon nanorope samples and for discussing the properties of the
nanotubes. Thanks also go to Ningping Yang for his work on the nonlinear optical
microscope.
I have greatly benefitted from collaborations with many graduate students and
postdocs during the course of my research.
In particular, I would like to thank
Drs. David Boas, Cecil Cheung, John Crocker, and Tony Dinsmore. Each is an outiv
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