2019 CAP Congress / Congrès de l'ACP 2019

Session

T2-7 Nobel Prize Session (DAMOPC) | Session de prix Nobel (DPAMPC)

T2-7

4 Jun 2019, 10:45

Simon Fraser University

Conveners

T2-7 Nobel Prize Session (DAMOPC) | Session de prix Nobel (DPAMPC)

• Steve Dodge (Simon Fraser University)

Description

In honour of this year’s Nobel Prize recognition of Donna Strickland for her work on chirped-pulse amplification, we will celebrate the impact her work and highlight some current frontiers of optical science.

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En l’honneur du Prix Nobel décerné à Donna Strickland pour son travail sur l’amplification d'impulsions par dérive de fréquence, nous célébrerons l’impact de son travail et soulignerons quelques initiatives aux frontières de la science optique.

2615. Laser Wakefield Driven X‐ray Sources in Canada: Future perspectives for non-destructive imaging and Global Food Security

Emil Hallin (University of Saskatchewan)

04/06/2019, 10:45

Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Very intense hard X-ray beams (1.5µm X-ray source size, 5µJ-50µJ/shot in the 30keV-40keV band, 50mrad x 50mrad divergence, critical energy for the X-ray spectrum of 30keV) have been generated through ultra-relativistic self-guiding over long gas jet length (cm range). I will describe the experiments realized with our new laser facility (delivering up to 7J in 18fs at 2.5Hz on target) and I...

2510. Strong fields for spectroscopy

Dr TJ Hammond (University of Windsor)

04/06/2019, 11:15

Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

High harmonic spectroscopy has been used for decades for sub-femtosecond resolution of molecular dynamics and attosecond measurements of electronic configurations. Recently, these ideas have been transferred to condensed matter to understand strong field processes in semiconductors and dielectrics. In developing these attosecond techniques, we have discovered that we can fully map the waveform...

2850. Investigation of Multi-frequency Raman Generated Spectra

Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo)

04/06/2019, 11:45

Symposia Day - Optical Science

Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

Since the advent of lasers, many different nonlinear optical techniques have led to shorter, higher-intensity pulses. At Waterloo, we are studying Multi-frequency Raman generation (MRG), which efficiently generates a large number of Raman orders spanning the spectral region from the infrared to the ultraviolet. The bandwidth of the Raman orders is sufficient to generate single-femtosecond...