Our faculty

• PHYS 100 Physics in the Arts
• PHYS 111 Fundamentals of Physics 1
• PHYS 112 Fundamentals of Physics 2
• PHYS 121 General Physics 1
• PHYS 122 General Physics 2
• PHYS 211 Classical Mechanics
• PHYS 241 Modern Physics
• PHYS 250 Advanced Laboratory
• PHYS 311 Thermal Physics
• PHYS 321 Electricity and Magnetism
• PHYS 352 Optics and Atomic Physics

• B.S. – Gustavus Adolphus College
• M.A. – University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ph.D. – University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Laser design and control
• Nonlinear optics
• Atomic interactions
• Laser frequency conversion

“A low-cost confocal microscope for the undergraduate lab,” A. Reguilon, W. Bethard, and E. Brekke, Am. J. Phys. (2023).

“3D printing an external-cavity diode laser housing,” E. Brekke, T. Bennett, H. Rook, and E. Hazlett, Am. J. Phys. 88, 1170 (2020).

“Saturation and alternate pathways in four-wave mixing in rubidium,” E. Brekke and N. Swan, JOSA B, 36, 421 (2019).

“Optical cavity for enhanced parametric four-wave mixing in rubidium,” E. Brekke and S. Potier, Applied Optics 56, 46 (2017).

“Frequency Characteristics of far-detuned parametric four-wave mixing in Rb,” E. Brekke and E. Herman, Optics Letters 40, 5674 (2015).

“Observation of laser feedback using a grating spectrometer,” E. Brekke and M. Schulz, Am. J. Phys. 83, 616 (2015).

“Parametric four-wave mixing using a single cw laser,” E. Brekke and L. Alderson, Optics Letters 38, 2147 (2013).