Novel Laser-Based Hyper-Short Pulse Sources and Single Particle Devices

Abstract

New results obtained in the field of extreme nonlinear optics and novel radiation sources: (1) The discovery of new principle of generating sub-femto- and zepto-second pulses and ultra-high magnetic field, using cyclotron-like radiation of highly-relativistic ionized electrons driven by a circularly-polirized petawatt laser (2) The prediction of nano-tsunami shock waves in the Coulomb explosion of nanoscale clusters ionized by high-intesity laser; (3) The proof-of-principle experiment and theory of medical application of transition radiation in multilayer structures for Bi-chromatic x-ray contract diagnostics; (4) Exploration of water-window Cherenkov sources, based on atomic shell resonances, for bio-applications; (5) Exploration of the potential of generating the pulses beyond zepto-second domain.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 08, 2006
Accession Number
ADA455637

Entities

People

  • Alexander E. Kaplan

Organizations

  • Johns Hopkins University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Charged Particles
  • Detectors
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Electromagnetic Scattering
  • Electrons
  • Free Electrons
  • Laser Beams
  • Lasers
  • Light Sources
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Metamaterial Absorbers
  • Nonlinear Optics
  • Nuclear Reactions
  • Optics
  • Radiation
  • Shock Waves
  • X Rays

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Pulsed Power and Plasma Physics.
  • Quantum Dot Semiconductor Device Photonics and Graphene Optoelectronic Materials and THz Physics.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene