Seminar: "Quasi-single-cycle multi-Terawatt Laser Development and it's Applications" by Dr. Laszlo Veisz /10.11.13/ 11:00am-12:00pm/ CREOL Room 102

"Quasi-single-cycle multi-Terawatt Laser Development and it's Applications" by Dr. Laszlo Veisz

Friday, October 11, 2013 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Room 102

Dr. Laszlo Veisz
Laboratory for Attosecond Physics
Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics

Abstract:
A unique light source based on the optical parametric synthesizer principle is presented. It delivers pulses with sub-5-fs pulse duration and 18 TW peak power and it is focusable to ultra-relativistic intensities of about 10^20 W/cm^2. This unparalleled source is ideally suited for the generation of (a) intense isolated attosecond XUV pulses via high harmonic generation in gases or overdense plasmas as well as (b) relativistic attosecond electron bunches from laser-plasma interaction. These sources open up various fields of applications, among others nonlinear XUV science or electron diffraction in the attosecond domain.

Biography:
Dr Veisz was educated in Budapest, Jena and Vienna, and has been at MPQ since 2004, where he is now the Deputy Director of the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics. He has won many awards, including a Lisa Meitner Fellowship at TU – Vienna. His current interests are in high power OPCPA laser systems, laser-particle acceleration, ultrafast electron diffraction and single attosecond pulse generation and applications.

For more information:
Dr. Martin C. Richardson
Pegasus Professor and University Trustee Chair, Northrop Grumman Prof of X-ray Photonics; Prof of Optics; Director Townes Laser Institute
407-823-6819
mcr@creol.ucf.edu

)� � h `?� P�� of Electrical, Electronic & Computer Engineering. He directs the Western Australian nodes of the Australian Microscopy & Microanalysis Research Facility and Australia’s National Imaging Facility. He is a Fellow of OSA and SPIE, and an Associate Editor of IEEE Photonics Journal, the IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Engineering and on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biomedical Optics and the journals Photonic Sensors and Photonics & Lasers in Medicine.
W/Prof. Sampson’s research interests are in biomedical optical engineering, with an emphasis on photonics, imaging and microscopy. His current main interest, beyond advancing microscope-in-a-needle technology, is in optical elastography – the imaging of tissue mechanical properties. His other interests include anatomical optical coherence tomography for imaging in human airways, and holographic microscopy.

For more information:
IEEE Photonics Society Student Chapter Chair: Zhenyue Luo zhenyueluo@creol.ucf.edu

IEEE Photonics Society Student Chapter Advisor: Prof.S.T.Wu
swu @ ucf . edu