Ultrafast Phenomena XVI

Paul Corkum: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Science Group Leader at Steacie of the National Research Council, he is a member of the Royal Societies of London and of Canada. He was the recipient of the Optical Society of America's Charles H. Townes award and the IEEE's Quantum electronics award in 2005. In 2006 he received the American Physical Society's Arthur L. Schawlow Prize. Corkum's research launched attosecond science. After studying the interaction of intense light pulses with atoms and molecules he and his group proposed how atomic and molecular gases can be used to produce attosecond pulses. In 2002 they measured the motion of hydrogen atoms in a hydrogen molecular ion with a timing precision of 200-attoseconds and a spatial precision of 0.02 Angstroms. In 2004 they demonstrated how attosecond technology can be used to image the highest occupied molecular orbital of Nitrogen. More recently they were able to strobe the attosecond motion of an electron in a hydrogen molecule almost instantaneously as the molecule breaks.

Attosecond and High-Order Harmonic Generation and Measurement, Atomic and Molecular Physics.- Ultrafast X-ray and Electron Science.- Correlated Electron Systems, Magnetization and Spin Dynamics.- Physics - Condensed Phase and Low Dimensional Systems.- Chemistry - Condensed Phase.- Chemistry - Advanced Spectroscopy, Molecular Control, Hydrogen Bonding, Liquids and Interfaces.- Biological Systems, Molecular Light Harvesting and Charge-Transfer Complexes.- THz Science and Technology, Nano-Optics and Plasmonics.- Novel Pulsed Sources: oscillators, amplifiers, nonlinear mixing.- Frequency Combs and Waveform Synthesis.- Optics, Optoelectronics, Measurement, Diagnostics and Instrumentation.- Applications of Ultrashort Pulses.