Selected Refereed Publications of Professor Bali
(for a list sorted by research topic please click here):
(Undergraduate and Masters' students at Miami University denoted
by * and # respectively)
1) “Direct detection of aggregates in highly turbid colloidal suspensions of polystyrene
nanoparticles", J. Berberich, J. Scaffidi, R. Ducay#, N. Phillip*, J. T. Boivin*, P. Judge*, L. M.
Bali, and S. Bali, accepted,
Applied Optics (2015).
2) "Design and Construction of cost-effective fail-safe tapered amplifier systems for laser cooling
and trapping experiments", J. C. B. Kangara#, A. J. Hachtel#, M. C. Gillette*, J. T. Barkeloo#, E.
Clements, S. Bali, [Miami U.]
B. E. Unks, N. A. Proite, D. D. Yavuz, [U. Wisconsin-Madison]
P. J. Martin, J. J. Thorn, D. A. Steck, [U. Oregon]
American Journal of Physics 82(8), 805 - 817 (2014).
3) "Accurate in situ measurement of complex refractive index and particle size
in intralipid emulsions", M. L. Dong*, K. G. Goyal*, B. W. Worth#, S. S. Makkar*, W. R.
Calhoun, L. M. Bali, and S. Bali,
Journal of Biomedical Optics 18(8), 087003(1-6) (2013).
4) "Empirical Model of Total Internal Reflection from Highly Turbid Media", K. G. Goyal*, M. L.
Dong*, V. M. Nguemaha#, B. W. Worth#, P. T. Judge*, W. R. Calhoun, L. M. Bali, and S. Bali,
Optics Letters 38, 4888 - 4891 (2013).
elected for publication in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics Vol. 9, Iss. 1 — Jan 14
(2014); Editors: Andrew Dunn and Anthony Durkin.
5) "Refractive index sensing of turbid media by differentiation of the reflectance profile: Does errorcorrection work?", K. G. Goyal*, M. L. Dong*, D. G. Kane*, S. S. Makkar*, B. W. Worth#, L. M.
Bali, and S. Bali,
Review of Scientific Instruments 83, 086107(1-3) (2012).
6) "An undergraduate lab on measurement of radiative broadening in atomic vapor", A. J. Hachtel*,
J. D. Kleykamp*, D. G. Kane*, M. D. Marshall*, B. W. Worth*, J. T. Barkeloo#, J. C.
B. Kangara#, J. C. Camenisch*, M. C. Gillette*, and S. Bali,
American Journal of Physics 80, 740 - 743 (2012).
Erratum: American Journal of Physics 81 (6), 471 (2013).
7) "Reply to Comment on "Measurement of the refractive index of highly turbid media"", W.
Calhoun*, H. Maeta#, A. Combs*, L. M. Bali, and S. Bali,
Optics Letters 36, 3172 (2011).
Selected for publication in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics Vol. 6, Iss. 9 — Oct. 3
(2011); Editors: Andrew Dunn and Anthony Durkin.
8) "Measurement of sub-natural linewidth AC Stark shifts in cold atoms: An experiment for the
advanced undergraduate laboratory", J. D. Kleykamp*, A. J. Hachtel*, D. G. Kane*, M. D.
Marshall*, N. J. Souther#, P. K.Harnish*, and S. Bali,
American Journal of Physics 79, 1211-1217 (2011).
9) "Sensitive real-time measurement of the refractive index and attenuation coefficient of milk and
milk-cream mixtures", W. Calhoun*, H. Maeta#, S. Roy, L. M. Bali, and S. Bali,
Journal of Dairy Science 93, 3497 - 3504 (2010).
10) "Measurement of the refractive index of highly turbid media", W. Calhoun*, H. Maeta#, A.
Combs*, L. M. Bali, and S. Bali,
Optics Letters 35, 1224-1226 (2010).
Selected for publication in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics Vol. 5, Iss. 9 — Jul. 6
(2010); Editor: Gregory W. Faris
11) "Measurements of light shifts in cold atoms using Raman pump-probe
spectroscopy", N. Souther#, R. Wagner*, P. Harnish*, M. Briel*, and S. Bali,
Laser Physics Letters 7 (4), 321–327 (2010).
12) "A simple method to stably float coupled optical table systems", R. Stites#,
M. McClimans#, C. LaPlante*, J. McHugh*, P. Burch*, and S. Bali,
Optics and Laser Technology 39, 546 - 548 (2007).
13) "Real-time differential refractometry without interferometry at a sensitivity level of 106
", M. McClimans#, C. LaPlante*, D. Bonner#, and S. Bali,
Applied Optics 45, 6477-6486 (2006).
14) "Observation of temporal correlations in phase-dependent resonance fluorescence", Z. H. Lu, J. E.
Thomas, and S. Bali,
Optics Letters 30, 2478 (2005).
15) "Large atom-density change at constant temperature by varying trap anisotropy in a dilute
magneto-optical trap", R. Stites#, M. McClimans#, and S. Bali,
Optics Communications 248, 173-178 (2005).
16) "Sensitive measurement of radiation trapping in cold atom clouds by intensity correlation
detection", R. Stites#, M. Beeler*, L. Feeney*, S. Kim#, and S. Bali,
Optics Letters 29, 2713-2715 (2004).
17) "The role of quantum jumps in the squeezing of resonance fluorescence from short-lived and longlived atoms", S. Bali,
Journal of Optics B: Quantum and Semi-classical Optics 6, S1 – S6 (2004).
18) "Sensitive Detection of Radiation Trapping in Cold Atom Clouds", M. Beeler*, R. Stites*, S.
Kim#, L. Feeney*, and S. Bali,
Physical Review A 68, 013411 (2003).
19) "Physical interpretation of phase-dependent resonance fluorescence", S. Bali,
Proceedings of SPIE, Fluctuations and Noise in Photonics and Quantum Optics, edited by D.
Abbott, J. H. Shapiro, Y. Yamamoto (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2003), pgs 514 – 522.
20) "Stable, strongly attractive, two-state mixture of lithium fermions in an optical trap", K. M.
O’Hara, M. Gehm, S. Granade, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2092 (2000).
21) "Time resolved phase space distributions for light backscattered from a disordered medium", A.
Wax, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Phys. Rev. Lett.85, 66 (2000).
22) "Characterizing the coherence of broadband sources using optical phase space contours", A. Wax,
S. Bali, G. Alphonse, J. E. Thomas, J. Biomedical Optics, 4 (4), 482 (1999).
23) "Heterodyne measurement of Wigner distributions for classical optical fields", K. F. Lee, F. Reil,
S. Bali, A. Wax, and J. E. Thomas, Opt. Lett.24, 1370 (1999).
24) "Optical phase space distributions for low-coherence light", A. Wax, S. Bali, and J. E.
Thomas, Opt. Lett. 24, 1188 (1999).
25) "Quantum-diffractive background gas collisions in atom trap heating and loss", S. Bali, K. M.
O’Hara, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, and J. E. Thomas, Phys. Rev. A 60, R29 (1999).
26) "Ultrastable CO2 laser trapping of lithium fermions", K. M. O’Hara, S. Granade, M. Gehm, T.
A. Savard, S. Bali, C. Freed, and J. E. Thomas, Phys. Rev. Lett.82, 4204 (1999). This work was
highlighted in Physical Review Focus, and cited on the web page of Sciencemagazine, in Physics
World and Physics Today, and in the Scientific American.
27) "Observation of squeezing in the phase-dependent fluorescence spectra of two-level atoms", Z. H.
Lu, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3635 (1998).
28) "Two-photon detection of light from a degenerate parametric oscillator”, S. Bali, K.F. Lee and S.
Singh, Optics Communications 142, 223-228 (1997).
29) "Low saturation intensities in two-photon ultracold collisions", C. Sukenik, D. Hoffmann, S. Bali,
and T. Walker, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 782 (1998).
30) "Trap-depth measurements using repulsive-state traploss collisions", D. Hoffmann, S. Bali, and T.
Walker, Phys. Rev. A. 54, R1030 (1996).
31) "Measurement of intensity correlations of scattered light from optically-trapped atoms", S. Bali, D.
Hoffmann, J. Simán, and T. Walker, Phys. Rev. A.53, 3469 (1995).
32) "Novel intensity dependence of ultra-cold collisions", S. Bali, D. Hoffmann, and T.
Walker, Europhys. Lett. 27, 273 (1994).
33) "Coherence and elastic scattering in resonance fluorescence", S. Bali, F. A. Narducci and L.
Mandel, Phys. Rev. A. 47, 5056 (1993).
34) "Effect of varying dye flow velocity on dye laser statistics", S. Bali, J. Noh, A. Fougéres, F. C.
Cheng and L. Mandel, Opt. Commun.78, 377 (1990).
35) "Response of a phase-conjugate mirror to an incident photon", Z. Y. Ou, S. Bali and L.
Mandel, Phys. Rev. A. 39, 2509 (1989).