Mathematical Modeling and Experimental Validation of Ultrafast Nonlinear Light-Matter Coupling associated with Filamentation in Transparent Media

MURI Participants

The assembled MURI team consists of a core applied mathematics and theoretical physics (Moloney, Koch, Kolesik, Wright, Newell, Glasner, Brio, Venkataramani) and experimental femtosecond optics (Polynkin) at ACMS and external theoretical physicists Becker and Jaron-Becker at JILA, University of Colorado, Christodoulides (Central Florida) and experimentalists Murnane, Kapetyn (University of Colorado), Levis (Temple), Gaeta (Cornell) and Durfee (Colorado School of Mines).

The MURI team will maintain strong collaborative links with Air Force Research scientists (Roach at AFRL Kirtland and Albanese (Brooks City AFB). The MURI team will work in close collaboration with AFRL (Kirtland) to transition expertise, research personnel and discoveries to their AFRL TW laser facility for field tests.

Jerome V. Moloney, Miroslav Kolesik, Moysey Brio, Stephan Koch, Pavel Polynkin	Andreas Becker and Agnieszka Anna Jaron-Becker	Alan Newell, Karl Glasner, Shankar Venkataramani
Charles Durfee and Jeff Squier		Alex Gaeta
Henry Kapetyn and Margaret Murnane	Robert J. Levis	Demetrios Christodoulides

International Outreach and Collaborations

CORK SCHOOL 2013

This School is being held in conjunction with the the Arizona Center for Mathematical Sciences and the Multi-Disciplinary Research Initiative (MURI). It is intended for graduate students, advanced undergraduate students and even senior researchers seeking an accelerated exposure to theory and mathematics describing ultrashort pulse propagation.

Description: Extreme nonlinear optical events associated with filamentation of ultrashort laser pulses involving unconventional beam profiles in transparent gaseous and solid state media, require a fundamental understanding of nonlinear saturation, nonequilibrium plasma generation and ultra-fast light matter coupling.

Location: University College Cork, Ireland

Dates: July 28, 2013 - August 2, 2013. Click here to visit Cork School 2013 website

STELLA 2011

MURI team members have participated as lecturers in the STELLA "International School for Training in Experiments with Lasers and Laser Applications", June 20 to July 8, 2011 held at the University of Insubria, Como, Italy. Click here to visit STELLA 2011 website