U.S.-France Cooperative Research: Ultrahigh Intensity Pulses - Applications and Physics of Laser Plasma Interaction

小行星9315323 这个为期三年的奖项支持美国-法国密歇根大学超快光学科学科学技术中心物理学合作研究。Mourou和由Denis Pesme领导的Ecole Polytechnique的强激光应用实验室。该奖项主要支持高级研究生和博士后研究人员的交流。 他们研究的目的是检验所谓的韦克菲尔德加速的一些基本概念。 具体来说，他们建议开发激光放大器，目的是产生超短和高能脉冲，并研究相对论范围内的激光-等离子体相互作用。 美国研究人员是超短高能脉冲领域的世界领导者。 这个小组开发的大多数技术都在世界范围内使用。法国小组在激光-等离子体相互作用的一般领域的丰富经验，例如在通过多光子吸收电离气体和在纳秒制度下的激光-等离子体相互作用方面的经验，补充了这一点。 该项目将促进对凝聚态物理学中突出问题的理解（例如，高温超导体），通过应用新技术产生超短光脉冲。 ***

9315323 Mourou This three-year award supports U.S.-France cooperative research in physics between the University of Michigan's Science and Technology Center for Ultrafast Optical Science directed by Gerard A. Mourou and the Laboratory for the Application of Intense Lasers, Ecole Polytechnique, led by Denis Pesme. The award principally supports an exchange of advanced graduate students and postdoctoral researchers. The objective of their research is to test some of the fundamental concepts of the so- called wakefield acceleration. Specifically, they propose to develop laser amplifiers with the aim of producing ultrashort and high-energy pulses, and to investigate laser-plasma interactions in the relativistic regime. The U.S. investigators are world leaders in the field of ultrashort, high-energy pulses. Most techniques developed by this group are used worldwide. This is complemented by the French group's vast experience in the general field of laser-plasma interactions; for example, in the ionization of gas by multiphoton absorption and in laser-plasma interaction at the nanosecond regime. The project will advance understanding of outstanding problems in condensed matter physics (e.g., high temperature superconductors) through the application of new technology in ultrashort optical pulse generation. ***