- Dr. Sotir Chervenkov receives Fulbright Fellowship – joins Popmintchev LABS - January 22, 2024
Congratulations to Fulbright Fellow Dr. Sotir Chervenkov on his project Coherent X-rays for Semiconductor Metrology and Imaging of Advanced Quantum Materials!
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 – Attosecond Physics - December 19, 2023
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L’Huillier “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”
- UC San Diego Rises to No. 4 Among U.S. Public Universities in Academic Ranking of World Universities - December 14, 2023
The 2023 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) has recognized the University of California San Diego as No. 4 among public universities in the United States, rising one spot from last year. UC San Diego also jumped two spots to No. 19 in the world in the latest edition of the annual ranking released by Shanghai Ranking Consultancy.
- UC San Diego Ranks 7th in the World for Most Influential Researchers - December 14, 2023
The University of California San Diego has the highest number of influential voices in the University of California system and ranks 7th highest among universities worldwide, according to Clarivate.
- Sirius Song Receives 2022 Undergraduate Summer Research Award - April 27, 2022
Congratulations to Sirius Song on his project related to generation of coherent attosecond X-rays with orbital angular momentum, selected to receive the 2022 Undergraduate Summer Research Award!
- Will Brunner joins Popmintchev LABS – Receives Ticho Fellowship - September 1, 2021
In honor of Harold Ticho’s 90th birthday, his contributions to the field of physics, and his extraordinary service to UC San Diego, an endowed fund for an annual award to a student in physics was established. The Harold K. Ticho Award is used by the Department of Physics as a targeted recruitment tool to attract the best graduate students to study physics at UC San Diego.
- Light Quantum Optical Society of America Student Chapter – First OSA Traveling Lecturer! - June 30, 2019
“Spatial mode manipulation in communications and imaging”. The ability to analyse and control light’s spatial properties is a fundamental requirement in many disciplines throughout optical physics. Imaging is an obvious example, where how light occupies space is measured directly to reveal details of the object being imaged. However other applications such as telecommunications and the field of Space Division Multiplexing are also increasingly looking to the spatial properties of light as a means of increasing information capacity.
- Dr. Dimitar Popmintchev, PhD Physics, joins Popmintchev LABS – TU Wien, Vienna, Austria! - June 14, 2019
- Dr. Xiaoshi Zhang, PhD Physics, joins Popmintchev LABS – University of California San Diego! - May 1, 2019
- The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 – Chirped Pulse Amplification - December 19, 2018
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin “for the optical tweezers and their application to biological systems”, the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland “for their method of generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses”
- Ziyi Zhao – William A. Lee Undergraduate Research Fellow! - March 19, 2018
Ziyi Zhao, B.Sc. candidate in Physics, receives William A. Lee Undergraduate Research Scholarship to work on coherent X-ray generation with arbitrary angular momentum properties! Congratulations! The William A. Lee Undergraduate Research Scholarship provides competitive funding for University of California San Diego undergraduates majoring in the Physical Sciences to conduct research projects[…]
- Promise of UC San Diego Junior Faculty Gains Attention of Sloan Foundation - February 15, 2018
Four early-career scientists at the University of California San Diego have been recognized for their outstanding promise in the fields of physics and computational and evolutionary molecular biology.
- Fangjie Zhou, B.Sc. Physics, joints Popmintchev group! - June 1, 2017
- Ziyi Zhao, B.Sc. Physics, joints Popmintchev group! - June 1, 2017
- Isolated broadband attosecond pulse generation with near- and mid-infrared driver pulses via time-gated phase matching - May 11, 2017
Title: Isolated broadband attosecond pulse generation with near- and mid-infrared driver pulses via time-gated phase matching Author(s): C. Hernández-García, T. Popmintchev, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, L. Plaja, A. Becker, and A. Jaron-Becker Source: OPTICS EXPRESS Volume: 25(10) Pages: 11855-11866 Published: 2017. Times cited Isolated broadband attosecond pulse generation with near- and mid-infrared[…]
- Siyang Wang, PhD candidate, Physics, joints Popmintchev group! - January 1, 2017
- Ultraviolet Surprise: Efficient Soft X-ray High Harmonic Generation in Multiply-Ionized Plasmas - December 4, 2015
Title: Ultraviolet Surprise: Efficient Soft X-ray High Harmonic Generation in Multiply-Ionized Plasmas Author(s): Dimitar Popmintchev, Carlos Hernández-García, Franklin Dollar, Christopher Mancuso, Jose A. Pérez-Hernández, Ming-Chang Chen, Amelia Hankla, Xiaohui Gao, Bonggu Shim, Alexander L. Gaeta, Maryam Tarazkar, Dmitri A. Romanov, Robert J. Levis, Jim A. Gaffney, Mark Foord, Stephen B. Libby,[…]
- Method for effectively phase-matched generation of coherent VUV, EUV and X-ray light using VUV-UV-VIS lasers - June 8, 2015
Title: Method for effectively phase-matched generation of coherent VUV, EUV and X-ray light using VUV-UV-VIS lasers Inventor(s): Popmintchev Tenio., Popmintchev Dimitar, Murnane Margaret, Kapteyn Henry Provisional Patent Application: US 61873794.
- Generation of Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-ray Pulses Driven by Multicycle Midinfrared Lasers - May 21, 2014
Title: Generation of Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-ray Pulses Driven by Multicycle Midinfrared Lasers Author(s): Ming-Chang Chen, Christopher Mancuso, Carlos Hernández-García, Franklin Dollar, Ben Galloway, Dimitar Popmintchev, Pei-Chi Huang, Barry Walker, Luis Plaja, Agnieszka A Jaroń-Becker, Andreas Becker, Margaret M Murnane, Henry C Kapteyn, Tenio Popmintchev Source: PNAS Volume: 11 Pages:[…]
- Method for phase-matched generation of coherent soft and hard X-rays using IR lasers - June 11, 2013
Title: Method for phase-matched generation of coherent soft and hard X-rays using IR lasers Inventor(s): Popmintchev Tenio., Chen Ming-Chang, Bahabad Alon, Murnane Margaret, Kapteyn Henry Patent: US 8,462,824. Published: JUN 11 2013. Provisional Patent Application: US 61171783 MAR 2008.