Statistics as of May, 2024

• Citation h-index: 36 (ISI data), 40 (Google Scholar)

• >100 journal publications and >180 conference presentations , 6 patents 

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 Recent publications                                                                                  [ * indicates corresponding author]

2023

1. Luis F. Ortega, Thomas Feigenson, Yin Wan Tam, Peter Reeves-Hall, Tso Yee Fan, Michael Messerly, Charles X. Yu, and Kyung-Han Hong*, “1.2-kW all-fiber Yb-doped multicore fiber amplifier," Opt. Lett. 48, 712 (2023). [Link]

2021

1. Sang-Hoon Nam, Garima C. Nagar, Dennis Dempsey, Ondřej Novák, Bonggu Shim, and Kyung-Han Hong*, “Multi-octave-spanning supercontinuum generation through high energy laser filaments in YAG and ZnSe pumped by a 2.4 µm Cr:ZnSe femtosecond laser,” High-Power Laser Science and Engineering 9, e12 (2021). [Link]

2. Aleem M. Siddiqui, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey A. Moses, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Bandwidth Extension and Conversion Efficiency Improvements Beyond Phase Matching Limitations using Cavity-Enhanced OPCPA,” Opt. Express 29, 9907 (2021) [Link].

  2020

1. Sang-Hoon Nam, Vladimir Fedorov, Sergey Mirov, and Kyung-Han Hong*, "Octave-spanning mid-infrared femtosecond OPA in a ZnGeP2 pumped by a 2.4 µm Cr:ZnSe chirped-pulse amplifier,"  Opt. Express 28, 32403 (2020). [Link]

2. Shizhen Qu, Garima Chaudhary Nagar, Wenkai Li, Kun Liu, Xiao Zou, Seck Hon Luen, Dennis Dempsey, Kyung-Han Hong, Qi Jie Wang, Ying Zhang, Bonggu Shim, Houkun Liang , "Long-wavelength-infrared laser filamentation in solids in the near-single-cycle regime ," Opt. Lett. 45, 2175 (2020). [Link]

   2019

1. Changchen Chen, Jane E. Heyes, Kyung-Han Hong, Murphy Yuezhen Niu, Adriana E. Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Jeffrey H. Shapiro, and Franco N. C. Wong, “Indistinguishable single-mode photons from spectrally engineered biphotons,” Opt. Express 27, 11626 (2019). [Link]

2.  Yizhou Liu, Peter Krogen, Kyung-Han Hong, Qian Cao, Phillip Keathley, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Fiber-amplifier-pumped, 1-MHz, 1-µJ, 2.1-µm, femtosecond OPA with chirped-pulse DFG front-end,” Opt. Express 27, 9144-9154 (2019).  [Link]

   2018

1. Tobias Kroh, Cheng Jin, Peter Krogen, Phillip D. Keathley, Anne-Laure Calendron, Jonathas P. Siqueira, Houkun Liang, Edilson L. Falcão-Filho, C. D. Lin, Franz X. Kärtner, and Kyung-Han Hong*, "Enhanced high-harmonic generation up to the soft X-ray region driven by mid-infrared pulses mixed with their third harmonic," Opt. Express 26, 16955-16969 (2018). [Link] 

2. Ondřej Novák, Peter R. Krogen, Tobias Kroh, Tomáš Mocek, Franz X. Kärtner, and Kyung-Han Hong*, "Femtosecond 8.5 μm source based on intrapulse difference-frequency generation of 2.1 μm pulses," Optics Letters 43, 1335 (2018). [Link]

   2017

1. Houkun Liang, Peter Krogen, Zhou Wang, Hyunwook Park, Tobias Kroh, Kevin Zawilski, Peter Schunemann, Jeffrey Moses, Louis F. DiMauro, Franz X. Kärtner, and Kyung-Han Hong*, "High-energy mid-infrared sub-cycle pulse synthesis from a parametric amplifier," Nature Communications 8, 141  (2017) [Link]. [OSA press release about ASSL 2016 presentation, "Astonishingly Short Mid-infrared Pulses Offer New Tool for Peering Inside Atoms and Solids"] [Link] [RLE page]. 

2. Peter Krogen, Haim Suchowski, Houkun Liang, Noah R. Flemens, Kyung-Han Hong, Franz X. Kärtner, and Jeffrey Moses, “Generation and Multi-Octave Shaping of Intense Mid-Infrared Single-Cycle Pulses,” Nature Photonics 11, 222-226 (2017). [Link] [Cornell Chronicle] 

3. Liang Jie Wong, Kyung-Han Hong, Sergio Carbajo, Arya Fallahi, Marin Soljačić, John D. Joannopoulos, Franz X. Kärtner, and Ido Kaminer, “Laser-Induced Linear Electron Acceleration in Free Space,” Scientific Reports 7, 11159 (2017). [Link]

4. Cheng Jin, Kyung-Han Hong, and C. D. Lin, “Macroscopic scaling of high harmonics generated by two-color optimized waveforms in a hollow waveguide,” Phys. Rev. A 96, 013422 (2017). [Link]

    2016

1. Cheng Jin, Kyung-Han Hong, C. D. Lin, "Optimal generation of spatially coherent soft X-ray isolated attosecond pulses in a gas-filled waveguide using two-color synthesized laser pulses," Scientific Reports 6, 38165 (Nov, 2016). [Link]

2. W. Ronny Huang, Arya Fallahi, Xiaojun Wu, Emilio A. Nanni, Anne-Laure Calendron, Huseyin Cankaya, Dongfang Zhang, Koustuban Ravi, Kyung-Han Hong, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Terahertz-driven, all-optical electron gun,” Optica 3, 1209 (Oct. 2016). [Link] [MIT News] [Highlighted in Science 355, 36 (2017), "An all-optical electron gun"] 

3. K. Murari, G. J. Stein, H. Cankaya, B. Debord, F. Gérôme, G. Cirmi, O. D. Mücke, P. LI, A. Ruehl, I. Hartl, K.-H. Hong, F. Benabid, and F. X. Kärtner, “Kagome-fiber-based pulse compression of mid-infrared picosecond pulses from a Ho:YLF amplifier,” Optica 3, 816 (Aug. 2016). [Link]

4.  Rostislav I. Grynko, Darshana L. Weerawarne, Xiaohui Gao, Houkun Liang, Henry J. Meyer, Kyung-Han Hong, Alexander L. Gaeta, and Bonggu Shim, “Inhibition of multi-filamentation of high power laser beams,” Opt. Lett. 41, 4064 (Aug. 2016). [Link]

5. Gregory J. Stein, Phillip D. Keathley, Peter Krogen, Houkun Liang, Jonathas P. Siqueira, Chun-Lin Chang, Chien-Jen Lai, Kyung-Han Hong, Guillaume M. Laurent, and Franz X. Kärtner, "Water-window soft X-ray high-harmonic generation up to the nitrogen K-edge driven by a kHz, 2.1 μm OPCPA source," J. Phys. B 49, 155601 (Aug. 2016). [Link]

6. Houkun Liang, Darshana Weerawarne, Peter Krogen, Rostislav I. Grynko, Chien-Jen Lai, Bonggu Shim, Franz X. Kärtner, and Kyung-Han Hong*, “Mid-infrared laser filaments in air at a kilohertz repetition rate,” Optica 3, 678-681 (July 2016). [Link] [MIT News] [Science Daily] [Optics.org] [Novuslight] [Highlighted in Nature Photonics 10, 498 (2016), "Laser filaments reach far and fast"] 

    2015

1. Emilio A. Nanni, W. R. Huang, Kyung-Han Hong, Koustuban Ravi, Arya Fallahi, Gustavo Moriena, R. J. Dwayne Miller, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Terahertz-driven linear electron acceleration,” Nature Communications 6, 8486 (2015). [Link] [DESY News] [Highlighted in Nature Photon. 9, 780 (2015), “Compact accelerator”]

2. W. Ronny Huang, Emilio A. Nanni, Koustuban Ravi, Kyung-Han Hong, Arya Fallahi, Liang Jie Wong, Phillip D. Keathley, Luis Zapata, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Toward a terahertz-driven electron gun,” Scientific Reports 5, 14899 (2015). [Link]

3. Chien-Jen Lai, Kyung-Han Hong*, Jonathas P. Siqueira, Peter Krogen, Chun-Lin Chang, Gregory J. Stein, Houkun Liang, Phillip D. Keathley, Guillaume Laurent, Jeffrey Moses, Luis E. Zapata, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Multi-mJ mid-infrared kHz OPCPA and Yb-doped pump lasers for tabletop coherent soft X-ray generation (invited),” Journal of Optics 17, 094009 (2015). [Link] [IOP LabTalk] [Selected as a Highlight of 2015 by Journal of Optics] 

4. Cheng Jin, Kyung-Han Hong, and C. D. Lin, "Optimal generation of high harmonics in the water-window region by synthesizing 800-nm and mid-infrared laser pulses," Opt. Lett. 40, 3754 (2015). [Link]

5. Cheng Jin, Gregory J. Stein, Kyung-Han Hong, and C. D. Lin, “Generation of Bright, Spatially Coherent Soft X-Ray High Harmonics in a Hollow Waveguide Using Two-Color Synthesized Laser Pulses,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 043901 (2015). [Link]

6. Luis E. Zapata, Hua Lin, Anne-Laure Calendron, Huseyin Cankaya, Michael Hemmer, Fabian Reichert, W. Ronny Huang, Eduardo Granados, Kyung-Han Hong, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Cryogenic Yb:YAG composite-thin-disk for high energy and average power amplifiers,” Opt. Lett. 40, 2610 (2015). [Link]

7. Chun-Lin Chang, Peter Krogen, Kyung-Han Hong*, Luis E. Zapata, Jeffrey Moses, Anne-Laure Calendron, Houkun Liang, Chien-Jen Lai, Gregory J. Stein, Phillip D. Keathley, Guillaume Laurent, and Franz X. Kärtner," High-energy, kHz, picosecond hybrid Yb-doped chirped-pulse amplifier," Opt. Express 23, 10132 (2015). [Link]

8. Houkun Liang, Peter Krogen, Ross Grynko, Ondrej Novak, Chun-Lin Chang, Gregory J. Stein, Darshana Weerawarne, Bonggu Shim, Franz X. Kärtner, and Kyung-Han Hong*, “Three-octave-spanning supercontinuum generation and sub-two-cycle self-compression of mid-infrared filaments in dielectrics,” Opt. Lett. 40, 1069 (2015). [Link] [Featured at Advances in Engineering] 

9. Chun-Lin Chang, Peter Krogen, Houkun Liang, Gregory J. Stein, Jeffrey Moses, Chien-Jen Lai, Jonathas P. Siqueira, Lius E. Zapata, Franz X. Kärtner, and Kyung-Han Hong*, “Multi-mJ, kHz picosecond deep ultraviolet source,” Opt. Lett. 40, 665 (2015). [Link]

10. Cristian Manzoni, Oliver Mücke, Giovanni Cirmi, Shaobo Fang, Jeffrey Moses, Shu-Wei Huang, Kyung-Han Hong, Giulio Cerullo, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Coherent pulse synthesis: towards sub-cycle optical waveforms (invited review),” Laser and Photonics Reviews 9(2), 129-171 (2015). [Link] [Selected as Front-Cover Article]

    2014

1. W. S. Graves, J. Bessuille, P. Brown, S. Carbajo, V. Dolgashev, K.-H. Hong, E. Ihloff, B. H. Khaykovich, H. Lin, K. Murari, E. A. Nanni, G. Resta, S. Tantawi, L. E. Zapata, F. X. Kärtner, and D.E. Moncton, “Compact x-ray source based on burst-mode inverse Compton scattering at 100 kHz,” Phys. Rev. ST Accelerators and Beams 17, 120701 (2014). [Link]

2. Kyung-Han Hong, Chien-Jen Lai, Jonathas Siqueira, Peter Krogen, Jeffrey Moses, Chun-Lin Chang, Gregory J. Stein, Luis E. Zapata, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Multi-mJ, kHz, 2.1-um optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier and high-flux soft X-ray high-harmonic generation,” Opt. Lett. 39, 3145-3148 (June, 2014). [Link] [Highlighted in OSA Spotlight on Optics, June 15, 2014] [Link] [Selected in the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics, issue 8, 2014] [Link]

3. Sergio Carbajo, Eduardo Granados, Damian Schimpf, Alexander Sell, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Efficient generation of ultra-intense few-cycle radially polarized laser pulses,” Opt. Lett. 39, 2487 (Apr., 2014). [Link]

4. W. Ronny Huang, Shu-Wei Huang, Eduardo Granados, Koustuban Ravi, Kyung-Han Hong, Luis E. Zapata, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Highly efficient terahertz pulse generation by optical rectification in cryogenically cooled lithium niobate,” J. Mod. Optics 62, 1486-1493 (2015); published online Jan., 2014. [Link]

    2013

1. Xing Fu*, Kyung-Han Hong*, Li-Jin Chen, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Performance scaling of high-power picosecond cryogenically-cooled Yb:YAG multipass amplification,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 30, 2798-2808 (Nov., 2013). [Link]

2. Siddharth Bhardwaj, Sang-Kil Son, Kyung-Han Hong, Chien-Jen Lai, Franz X Kärtner, and Robin Santra, “Recombination Amplitude of Noble Gases, in Length and Acceleration Form, beyond Strong Field Approximation,” Phys. Rev. A 88, 053405 (Nov., 2013). [Link]

3. Chien-Jen Lai, Giovanni Cirmi, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, Shu-Wei Huang, Eduardo Granados, Phillip Keathley, Siddharth Bhardwaj, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Wavelength scaling of high harmonic generation close to the multiphoton ionization regime,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 073901 (Aug., 2013). [Link]

4. Shu-Wei Huang, Eduardo Granados, Wenqian Ronny Huang, Kyung-Han Hong, Luis E. Zapata, and Franz X. Kärtner, “High conversion efficiency, high energy terahertz pulses by optical rectification in cryogenically cooled lithium niobate,” Optics Letters 38, 796 (March 2013). [Link] [Highlighted in Nature Photonics 7, 343 (2013), “Cool generation”] [Link]

    2012

1. Kyung-Han Hong, Chien-Jen Lai, Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas, Shu-Wei Huang, Jeffrey Moses, Eduardo Granados, Siddharth Bhardwaj, and Franz X. Kärtner, “High-harmonic generation in Xe, Kr, and Ar driven by a 2.1-um source: high-harmonic spectroscopy under macroscopic effects,” Phys. Rev. A 86, 043412 (2012). [Link]

2. Giovanni Cirmi, Chien-Jen Lai, Eduardo Granados, Shu-Wei Huang, Alexander Sell, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, Phillip Keathley, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Cut-off scaling of high-harmonic generation driven by a femtosecond visible optical parametric amplifier,” J. Phys. B 45, 205601 (Sept., 2012). [Link] [Highlighted in LabTalk of IOP, Article#51428] [Link]

3. Shu-Wei Huang, Giovanni Cirmi, Jeffrey Moses, Kyung-Han Hong, Siddharth Bhardwaj, Jonathan R. Birge, Li-Jin Chen, Irina V. Kabakova, Enbang Li, Benjamin J. Eggleton, Giulio Cerullo, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Optical waveform synthesizer and its application to high-harmonic generation (invited),” J. Phys. B 45, 074009 (April 14, 2012). [Link] [Special issue on Attosecond Science]

4. Eduardo Granados, Li-Jin Chen, Chien-Jen Lai, Kyung-Han Hong, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Wavelength scaling of optimal hollow-core fiber compressors in the single-cycle limit,” Optics Express 20, 9099-9108 (Apr. 4, 2012). [Link]

    2011

1. Kyung-Han Hong, Shu-Wei Huang, Jeffrey Moses, Xing Fu, Chien-Jen Lai, Giovanni Cirmi, Alexander Sell, Eduardo Granados, Phillip Keathley, and Franz X. Kärtner, “High-energy, phase-stable, ultrabroadband kHz OPCPA at 2.1 um pumped by a picosecond cryogenic Yb:YAG laser,” Opt. Express 19, 15538-15548 (Aug. 1, 2011). [Link] 

2. Shu-Wei Huang, Giovanni Cirmi, Jeffrey Moses, Kyung-Han Hong, Siddharth Bhardwaj, Jonathan R. Birge, Li-Jin Chen, Enbang Li, Benjamin Eggleton, Giulio Cerullo, and Franz X. Kärtner, “High-energy pulse synthesis with sub-cycle waveform control for strong-field physics,” Nature Photonics 5, 475-479 (Aug. 1, 2011). [Link] [MIT News, Aug. 15, 2011]

3. Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas, Siddharth Bhardwaj, Chien-Jen Lai, Kyung-Han Hong, Edilson L. Falcão-Filho and Franz X. Kärtner, “Interplay of mulitphoton and tunneling ionization in short-wavelength-driven high-order harmonic generation,” Phys. Rev. A 84, 013427 (July 29, 2011). [Link]

4. Aleem Siddiqui, Kyung-Han Hong, Jeffrey Moses, Jian Chen, F. Ömer Ilday, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Demonstration of a Cavity-Enhanced Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification System,” Opt. Lett. 36, 1206-1208 (Apr. 1, 2011). [Link]

5. Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas, Siddharth Bhardwaj, Edilson L. Falcão-Filho, Kyung-Han Hong, Ariel Gordon and Franz X Kärtner, “Scaling of high harmonic generation conversion efficiency,” J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 44, 045601 (Jan. 28, 2011). [Link]

    2010

1. Edilson L. Falcão-Filho, Chien-Jen Lai, Kyung-Han Hong, Vasileios-Marios Gkortsas, Shu-Wei Huang, Li-Jin Chen, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Scaling of high-order harmonic efficiencies with visible wavelength drivers: a route to efficient EUV sources,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 061107 (Aug. 9, 2010). [Link] 

2. Kyung-Han Hong, Juliet Gopinath, Darren Rand, Aleem Siddiqui, Shu-Wei Huang, Enbang Li, Benjamin J. Eggleton, John Hybl, Tso Yee Fan, and Franz X. Kärtner, “High-energy, kHz-repetition-rate, ps cryogenic Yb:YAG chirped-pulse amplifier,” Opt. Lett. 35, 1752 (June 1, 2010). [Link] 

3. Aleem M. Siddiqui, Jeffrey Moses, Kyung-Han Hong, Chien-Jen Lai, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Performance Scaling via Passive Pulse Shaping in Cavity-Enhanced Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification,” Opt. Lett. 35, 1929-1931 (June 15, 2010). [Link] 

4. Umit Demirbas, Kyung-Han Hong, James G. Fujimoto, Alphan Sennaroglu, and Franz X. Kärtner, “A low-cost cavity-dumped femtosecond Cr3+:LiSAF laser producing >100 nJ pulses,” Opt. Lett. 35, 607-609 (Feb. 15, 2010). [Link] 

    2009

1. Kyung-Han Hong, Chien-Jen Lai, Aleem Siddiqui, and Franz X. Kärtner, “130-W picosecond green laser based on a frequency-doubled hybrid cryogenic Yb:YAG amplifier,” Opt. Express 17, 16911-16919 (2009). [Link] 

2. J. Moses, S.-W. Huang, K.-H. Hong, O. D. Mücke, E. L. Falcão-Filho, A. Benedick, F. Ö. Ilday, A. Dergachev, J. A. Bolger, B. J. Eggleton, and F. X. Kärtner, “Highly stable ultrabroadband mid-IR optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifier optimized for superfluorescence suppression,” Opt. Lett. 34, 1639 (June 1, 2009). [Link] 

    2008

1. Kyung-Han Hong, Aleem Siddiqui, Jeffrey Moses, Juliet Gopinath, John Hybl, F. Ömer Ilday, Tso Yee Fan, and Franz X. Kärtner, “Generation of 287 W, 5.5 ps pulses at 78 MHz repetition rate from a cryogenically cooled Yb:YAG amplifier seeded by a fiber chirped-pulse amplification system,” Opt. Lett. 33, 2473 (Nov, 2008). [Link] 

2. Nasr A. M. Hafz, Tae Moon Jeong, Il Woo Choi, Seong Ku Lee, Ki Hong Pae, Victor V. Kulagin, Jae Hee Sung, Tae Jun Yu, Kyung-Han Hong, Tomonao Hosokai, John R. Cary, Do-Kyeong Ko, and Jongmin Lee, “Stable generation of GeV-class electron beams from self-guided laser-plasma channels,” Nature Photonics 2, 571 (Sept, 2008). [Link] [Featured in Nature Photonics 2, News and Views "Bringing accelerators down to size" ] [Link]

3. H. T. Kim, C. M. Kim, I. W. Choi, H. C. Kang, N. Hafz, S. G. Lee, J. H. Sung, T. J. Yu, S. K. Lee, K.-H. Hong, T. M. Jeong, Y.-C. Noh, D.-K. Ko, J. Tümmler, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner, K. A. Janulewicz, and J. Lee, “Characteristics of Ni-like silver X-ray laser pumped by single profiled laser pulse,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25, B76-B84 (July, 2008). [Link] 

4. H. T. Kim, I. W. Choi, N. Hafz, J. H. Sung, T. J. Yu, K.-H. Hong, T. M. Jeong, Y.-C. Noh, D.-K. Ko, K. A. Janulewicz, J. Tümmler, P. V. Nickles, W. Sandner, and J. Lee, “Demonstration of a saturated Ni-like Ag x-ray laser pumped by a single profiled laser pulse from a 10-Hz Ti:sapphire laser system,” Phys. Rev. A 77, 023807 (2008). [Link]