Research Grants at MIT campus 

"Novel, Middle and Long Wave Infrared Laser Sources For Accelerator and X-ray Generation Applications," DOE accelerator stewardship program (Sept. 2017 - Sept. 2020), Role: co-PI, with main PI: Sergey Mirov (UAB), other co-PIs: Chan Joshi (UCLA), Igor Pogorelsky (BNL), Award number: DE-SC0018378. [Link].

"Strong-field Interactions of Single-cycle Mid-infrared Pulses with Solids and Gases," ONR DURIP (Sept. 2017 - Aug. 2018), Role: PI,  Award number: N00014-17-1-2744.

"Isolated Soft X-ray Attosecond Pulse Generation Using Synthesized Strong-Field Mid-IR Pulses," AFOSR (Sept. 2014 - Nov. 2017), Role: PI, co-PI: Franz X. Kaertner, Chii-Dong Lin, Award number FA9550-14-1-0255.

"Table-Top Coherent Soft X-ray Sources and Their Applications to    Attosecond Spectroscopy ," MISTI MIT-Brazil Seed Fund  (Jan. 2015 - Aug. 2017), Role: PI, Brazil counter-part: Edilson Falcao-Filho, UFPE. [Link]

Research Interests

    1.  Novel High-Power Ultrafast Light sources in the mid-IR and THz Ranges 

•  Ultrabroadband mid-IR optical parametric chirped-pulse amplification (OPCPA) and optical parametric amplification (OPA) systems

• High-energy coherent single-optical-cycle pulse synthesis based on OPCPA and OPA

• High-energy THz pulse generation: highly efficient THz generation in cryo-cooled lithium niobate, radially polarized THz generation

Yb-doped ps pump laser and multi-mJ, 32 fs, mid-IR OPCPA system at a kHz repetition rate

2.  Ultrafast Lasers and Ultrafast Nonliner Optics

•    Novel high-power picosecond cryogenic Yb-doped lasers for OPCPA pumping and inverse Compton scattering

•    Powerful picosecond visible and DUV pulses via nonlinear wavelength conversion

•    Mid-IR filamentation for mid-IR spectroscopy and LIDAR applications: self-compression in anomalous dispersion regime, super-continuum generation, filamentation in air

•    Ti:sapphire laser oscillators and amplifiers: octave-spanning oscillator, 100 TW laser amplifier

•    Ultrafast Yb- and Er-fiber lasers and amplifiers

•    Ultrafast Cr:ZnS and Cr:ZnSe lasers

•    Temporal characterization of femtosecond laser pulses: FROG, SPIDER, and 2DSI devices, high-dynamic-range third-order correlator, CEP change measurement, white-light interferometry

Continuum and harmonic generation from MIR filamentation in air

3.  Strong-field Laser Physics and Laser-Plasma Interactions

•   High-harmonic EUV/soft X-ray attosecond pulses in strong mid-IR laser fields: wavelength scaling of efficiency and cutoff in high-harmonic generation (HHG), high-flux coherent water-window soft X-ray pulse generation for bio- and nano-imaging, high-harmonic spectroscopy of atoms and molecules, attosecond pulse generation with synthesized waveforms

•    Novel THz-driven electron accelerators: streaking and acceleration of photo-electrons using a THz gun, linear electron acceleration in a THz waveguide

•    Relativistic optics: carrier-envelope phase (CEP)-stabilized relativistic-intensity laser pulses, contrast enhancement technique, inverse Compton scattering X-ray sources

•    Laser-plasma interactions: laser-wakefield electron acceleration, plasma-based soft X-ray lasers, hard X-ray and hot electron generation from clusters and solids 

High-flux soft X-ray high-harmonic generation driven by mid-IR pulses

THz linear electron acceleration in a waveguide