Accession Number:

ADA455637

Title:

Novel Laser-Based Hyper-Short Pulse Sources and Single Particle Devices

Descriptive Note:

Final technical rept. 1 Feb 2002-30 Sep 2005

Corporate Author:

JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV BALTIMORE MD DEPT OF ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING

Personal Author(s):

• Kaplan, Alexander E.

Report Date:

2006-05-08

Pagination or Media Count:

25.0

Abstract:

New results obtained in the field of extreme nonlinear optics and novel radiation sources 1 The discovery of new principle of generating sub-femto- and zepto-second pulses and ultra-high magnetic field, using cyclotron-like radiation of highly-relativistic ionized electrons driven by a circularly-polirized petawatt laser 2 The prediction of nano-tsunami shock waves in the Coulomb explosion of nanoscale clusters ionized by high-intesity laser 3 The proof-of-principle experiment and theory of medical application of transition radiation in multilayer structures for Bi-chromatic x-ray contract diagnostics 4 Exploration of water-window Cherenkov sources, based on atomic shell resonances, for bio-applications 5 Exploration of the potential of generating the pulses beyond zepto-second domain.

Descriptors:

• *RADIATION
• *NONLINEAR OPTICS
• *SHORT PULSES
• SOURCES
• LASERS
• CLUSTERING
• RESONANCE
• ATOMIC PROPERTIES
• TRANSITIONS
• PARTICLES
• MEDICINE
• EXPLOSIONS
• SHELLS(STRUCTURAL FORMS)

Subject Categories:

• Lasers and Masers
• Optics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE