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Pin Chen

Education

B.S. in Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley (1991)
Ph.D. in Chemical Physics, California Institute of Technology (1999)

Research Interests

Atmosphere/climate/habitability, Stable-Isotope Analysis, and Exoplanet Science
Development of instrumentation for stable-isotope analysis of atmospheric molecules using near-infrared diode lasers and cavity-enhanced spectroscopy
Kinetic isotope effects in methane photochemistry
Astronomical seeing in the stratosphere
High-resolution, far-infrared and submillimeter molecular spectroscopy
Development of narrow-linewidth, frequency-calibrated terahertz sources based on semiconductor photomixers
Balloon-borne remote sensing of stratospheric OH

Professional Experience

California Institute of Technology - Visiting Associate, Division of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering (2007 - present)
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science Division (2000 - present)
- Research Scientist (2006-present)
- Group Supervisor (Acting), Atmospheric Laser Spectroscopy Group (2007)
- Scientist (2000-2006)
National Institute of Standards and Technology - Research Chemist in the Time and Frequency Division (funded by National Research Council's Postdoctoral Research Associateship Program) (1999 - 2000)

Selected Awards

NASA Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of valuable contribution and outstanding support to the Advanced Technologies (ACT) program and the NASA Earth Science Technology Office, (2009)
Invited Lecture, Planetary Evolution & Habitability course, California Institute of Technology, (2009)
JPL Team Bonus Award for the successful balloon flight of the Planetscope Precursor Experimen, (2008)
Invited Seminar, The Center for Adaptive Optics, (2007)
NASA Group Achievement Award for the Molecular Spectroscopy Team (2006)
NASA Group Achievement Award for participating in the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder Instrument project (2005)
NASA New Investigator Program Award (2002 - 2005)
NASA Group Achievement Award for participating in Balloon Observations of the Stratosphere (2004)
Invited lectures, Nippon Institute of Technology, Japan (2003)
National Research Council's Postdoctoral Research Associateship (1999 - 2000)
NASA New Technology Reporting Award for Tunable Terahertz Source Using Near Infrared Diode Lasers (NPO- 20636, 1999)

Selected Publications

Swain, MR; Vasisht, G; Tinetti, G; Bouwman, J; Chen, Pin; Yung, Y; Deming, D; Deroo, P. “Molecular Signatures in the Near Infrared Dayside Spectrum of HD 189733b,” Astrophys. J. Lett., in press, 2008.
Chen, P; Pearson, JC; Pickett, HM; Matsuura, S; Blake, GA. "Measurements of ¹⁴NH₃ in the v₂ = 1 state by a solid-state, photomixing, THz spectrometer and a simultaneous analysis of the microwave, terahertz, and infrared transitioins between the ground and v₂ inversion-rotation levels," J. Mol. Spectrosc., 236(1): 116-126, 2006.
Trudeau, ME; Chen, P; de Andrade Garcia, G.; Hollberg, LW; Tans, PP. "Stable isotopic analysis of atmospheric methane by infrared spectroscopy using diode laser difference frequency generation," Appl. Optics 45 (17), 2006.
Chen, P; Robichaud, D; Okumura, M. "Application of cavity enhanced, optical heterodyne spectroscopy to tropospheric isotope chemistry." Abstr. Pap. Am. Chem. Soc., 229: U722-U722 131-Phys. Part 2, March 13, 2005.
Kleiner, I; Tarrago, G; Cottaz, C; Sagui, L; Brown, LR; Poynter, RL; Pickett, HM; Chen, P; Pearson, JC; Sams, RL; Blake, GA; Matsuura, S; Nemtchinov, V; Varanasi, P; Fusina, L; Di Lonardo, G. "NH3 and PH3 line parameters: the 2000 HITRAN update and new results." J. Quant. Spectrosc. Radiat. Transf., 82(1-4): 293-312, 2003.
Chen, P; Pearson, JC; Pickett, HM; Matsuura, S; Blake, GA. "Submillimeter-wave measurements and analysis of the ground and v₂ = 1 states of water," Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 128(1): 371-385, 2000.
Chen, P; Pearson, JC; Pickett, HM; Matsuura, S; Blake, GA. "A Three-Diode-Laser, Terahertz-Difference-Frequency Synthesizer and Its Applications toward Far-Infrared Spectroscopy of Ammonia and Water," in L. Hollberg and R. J. Lang (Eds.), Trends in Optics and Photonics: Advanced Semiconductor Lasers and Their Applications vol. 31, pp. 103-105, Washington, D.C., Optical Society of America, 2000.
Matsuura, S; Chen, P; Blake, GA; Pearson, JC; Pickett, HM. "A tunable cavity-locked diode laser source for terahertz photomixing," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., 48(3): 380-387, 2000.
Matsuura, S; Chen, P; Blake, GA; Pearson, JC; Pickett, HM. "Simultaneous amplification of terahertz difference frequencies by an injection-seeded semiconductor laser amplifier at 850 nm," Int. J. Infrared Millimeter Waves, 19(6): 849-858, 1998.
Chen, P; Blake, GA; Gaidis, MC; Brown, ER; McIntosh, KA; Chou, SY; Nathan, MI; Wiliamson, F. "Spectroscopic applications and frequency locking of THz photomixing with distributed-Bragg-reflector diode lasers in low-temperature-grown GaAs," Appl. Phys. Lett., 71(12): 1601-1603, 1997.

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