Attosecond Science

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 – Attosecond Physics

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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”

Will Brunner joins Popmintchev LABS – Receives Ticho Fellowship

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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.

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 – Chirped Pulse Amplification

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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!

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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[…]

Isolated broadband attosecond pulse generation with near- and mid-infrared driver pulses via time-gated phase matching

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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[…]

Ultraviolet Surprise: Efficient Soft X-ray High Harmonic Generation in Multiply-Ionized Plasmas

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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,[…]

Generation of Bright Isolated Attosecond Soft X-ray Pulses Driven by Multicycle Midinfrared Lasers

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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:[…]