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Dr. George TsakirisMax-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Abteilung für Attosekundenphysik
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching, Germany
| office: | B 2.44 |
| lab: | F 0.2 |
| phone: | (+49 89) 32905 – 240 (office) (+49 89) 32905 – 764 / – 765 (lab) |
| fax: | (+49 89) 32905 – 649 |
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| phone: | (+49 89) 32905 – 613 |
| fax: | (+49 89) 32905 – 760 |
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research expertise and fields
- Relativistic nonneutral plasmas. Synchrotron radiation emitted by plasma. Coherent and incoherent microwave generation by plasmas. Relativistic Thomson scattering. Magnetic mirror confined plasma. Microwave theory and applications to instrumentation for plasma diagnosis.
- Laser produced plasma. Corona physics. Generation of fast electrons and ions. X-ray generation in plasma. Radiation transfer. Atomic physics and opacities of dense hot plasmas. Radiation confinement in cavities. Time-resolved and time-integrated x-ray spectroscopy. X-ray streak cameras.
- High intensity laser physics. Interaction of high intensity laser pulses with matter. Coherent light sources based on harmonic generation from non-linear media. Harmonic generation from atoms, vacuum-solid interface and free electrons. Relativistic non-linearities of plasmas. Relativistic self focussing and channel formation in underdense plasmas. Generation of intense short laser pulses.
- Electron and proton acceleration using high intensity laser pulses. Generation of short x-ray and electron pulses for studying ultra-fast dynamical processes.
- Attoscience. Generation and characterization of attosecond XUV pulses. Attosecond pulse metrology and applications. Alternative sources of high harmonic generation.
current interests and projects
- The production of single attosecond pulses at intensity levels that would allow the study in the XUV, SXR spectral range of non-linear processes in atomic, molecular or solid-state physics with a temporal resolution comparable to the atomic time-scale.
- Generation of short duration energetic electron pulses for ultra-fast electron diffraction applications.
- Electron acceleration in underdense plasmas and production of coherent XUV to SXR short pulses for atomic scale electron imaging.
- Energy resolved autocorrelation techniques for the characterization of attosecond pulses.
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