Paul Corkum
University of Ottawa (and NRC)
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
15:30
ME 3380 (and zoom)
High-harmonic and attosecond-pulse generation, measurement, and application
I will discuss the contribution of each winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Attosecond Science and as I do, I
will introduce key attosecond ideas. I will also discuss why the Nobel Committee might have chosen
“attosecond science” for the 2023 Prize and where could it lead.
I will then turn to three applications from my lab (1) “imaging an orbital”, (2) measuring the “properties
of a two-band semiconductors” and (3) measuring the “attosecond delay of a photoelectron near the
Cooper minimum in Argon”.
The lecture will be accessible to undergraduate students of Physics.