Dr. Sotir Chervenkov receives Fulbright Fellowship – joins Popmintchev LABS
Congratulations to Fulbright Fellow Dr. Sotir Chervenkov on his project Coherent X-rays for Semiconductor Metrology and Imaging of Advanced Quantum Materials!
Coherent X-rays
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 – Attosecond Physics
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”
Sirius Song Receives 2022 Undergraduate Summer Research Award
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
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.
Dr. Dimitar Popmintchev, PhD Physics, joins Popmintchev LABS – TU Wien, Vienna, Austria!
Dr. Xiaoshi Zhang, PhD Physics, joins Popmintchev LABS – University of California San Diego!
Ziyi Zhao – William A. Lee Undergraduate Research Fellow!
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
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
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
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.