office RLM 2.212, tel: 512-471-9411 lab RLM 2.408, tel: 512-471-7251
Current Doctoral StudentsEpi-Optics Group| Name | Research and Contact Information |
|---|
| Yujin Cho | | | Brandon Furey | office RLM 2.212 tel: 512-471-9411 | | Loucas Loumakos | Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy. office RLM 2.218
tel: 512-471-7251 email: loumakos@physics.utexas.edu | | Adam Ramm | |
Ultrafast Laser Group
| Name |
Research and Contact Information |
| Andrea Hannesch | |
| Rick Korzekwa |
Enhaced high-order harmonic generation from expanding clusters. office RLM 2.212 tel: 512-471-9411 email: |
| Max LaBerge | | | Kathleen Weichman | | | James Welch | |
| Yen-Yu Zhang |
office RLM 2.412 tel: 512-471-7251 |
Research Scientists
Current Masters Students
Former Ph.D. Students
| Name |
Thesis Title and Current Position |
| Hai-En Tsai | Ph. D. 2015 Tunable quasi-monoenergetic Compton x-ray source from laser-plasma accelerator.
Currently a postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (W. Leemans, supervisor). | | Neil Fazel | Ph. D . 2015 Quasi-monoenergetic laser-plasma acceleration of electrons
beyond 1 GeV at the Texas Petawatt Laser.
Currently at Securities &
Exchange Commission, New York, NY. | | James C. Sanders | Ph. D . 2014 Terawatt Raman System for Two-Color Laser-Plasma Interactions.
Currently Assistant Professor of Physics, Troy University, Alabama |
| Zhengyan Li |
Ph. D. 2014 Single-shot visualization of evolving, light-speed refractive
index structures. Currently a postdoctoral fellow at National Research
Council - Canada (P. Corkum, supervisor). |
| Spencer Jolly | | |
| Xiaohui Gao |
Ph.D. 2012 Characterization of cluster-monomer ratio in pulsed supersonic gas jets
, email: gaoxh@physics.utexas.edu |
|
| Ming Lei |
Ph.D. 2012 Nonlinear optical studies of ultrathin silicon and carbon
films. Currently Sr. TD Engineer at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. leiming@physics.utexas.edu |
| Junwei Wei |
Ph.D. 2012 Ultrafast spectroscopy of silicon nanocrystals.
Currently Research Scientist at KLA-Tencor. email: webb@physics.utexas.edu |
| Robert Ehlert |
Ph.D. 2011 Optical second harmonic generation
and reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy of molecular adsorption
at Si(001) step edges. Currently at Intel Corp. email:
rehlert@femtolab.org |
| Peng Dong |
Ph.D. 2010 Frequency domain holography of
laser plasma acceleration structures. Currently postdoctoral research associate at UCLA. email: gear@physics.utexas.edu |
| Jimmy Price |
Ph.D. 2009 Optical characterization of high-K
dielectric structures. Currently at SEMATECH email: Jimmy.Price@sematech.org
|
| Franklin Grigsby |
Ph.D. 2009 Pulse Shaping for Laser Wakefield Optimization,
office RLM 2.212 tel: 512-471-9411 email: fgrigsby@mail.utexas.edu |
| Rafal Zgadzaj |
Ph.D. 2008: Guiding of terawatt pulses through plasma
channels, Currently postdoctoral research associate at UT
Austin, email: rafal@physics.utexas.edu |
| Benjamin Bowes |
Ph.D. 2007:Energy transport in high temperature,
high density plasmas on femtosecond timescales, Currently
Technical Staff member at The
Aerospace Corporation, El
Segundo, California. Office Phone: 310-336-2619, email:
ben@benjaminbowes.net |
| Peter Figliozzi |
Ph.D. 2007: Nonlinear spectroscopy of silicon nanocrystals,
Currently Senior Modeler/Analyst, Clockwork
Solutions, Inc. Austin, TX (email: Peter.Figliozzi@clockwork-solutions.com) |
| Liangfeng Sun |
Ph.D. 2006: Nonlinear spectroscopy of silicon nanocrystals,
email: sunlf@physics.utexas.edu.
Postdoctoral research associate at Cornell University (2006-2011, postdoc supervisor: Prof.
Frank Wise). Currently Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University. |
| Jinhee Kwon |
Ph.D. 2006: Second Harmonic Generation and Reflectance
Difference Spectroscopy of Si(001) Vicinal Surfaces, Currently
postdoctoral research associate at U. Texas - Dallas (postdoc
supervisor: Prof. Yves Chabal), email: jinhee@utdallas.edu.
Dr. Kwon gave the AMO seminar "In-situ FTIR characterization
during atomic layer deposition of high-k dielectric and metal
films" in the UT Physics Department on 26 September 2008. |
| Ramón Carriles-Jaimes |
Ph.D. 2006:SFG spectroscopy of ultrathin oxides.,
Postdoctoral research associate at Colorado School of Mines
(2006-2008; postdoc supervisor Prof. Jeff Squier); Currently
staff scientist at Centro
de Investigaciones en Optica (CIO), Leon, Mexico. ramon@cio.mx |
| Nicholas
Hill Matlis |
Ph.D. 2006:Generation and characterization of laser
Wakefields, optical phase diagnosis using Frequency Domain
Holography and SPIDER., email: nhmatlis@yahoo.com,
Currently postdoctoral fellow at Lawrence-Berkley National
Labs (Postdoc supervisor: Wim Leemans) |
| Bonggu Shim |
Ph.D. 2006:Time-resolved study of third harmonic generation
from anisotropically expanding clusters. Postdoctoral research associate at
Cornell University (2007-2012 Postdoc supervisor:
Prof. Alex Gaeta). Currently Assistant Professor at Binghamton University. email: bgs43@cornell.edu.
Dr. Shim gave the AMO seminar "How ultrashort laser pulses
guide themselves" in the UT-Physics Department on 21
November 2008. |
| Kui Wu |
Ph.D. 2004: Second harmonic generation
imaging of electric fields., email: kwu@physics.utexas.edu
Currently with Wuhan Telecommunication
Devices Co., Ltd., Wuhan,
China. |
| Yingying Jiang |
Ph.D. 2002: Linear and nonlinear optical
spectroscopy of silicon germanium and silicon nanocrystals
Postdoctoral research associate at Vanderbilt University (2002-2004);
Currently Associate Professor, Peking University, China (email:
yingjiang@pku.edu.cn) |
| Daeyoung Lim |
Ph.D. 2001: Nonlinear optical spectroscopy
of silicon-boron and other silicon-adsorbate systems
Postdoctoral research associate at Los Alamos Natl Lab (2001-2003);
Research associate at IBM Yorktown Thomas J Watson Research
Center (2003-2005); Currently Professor of Physics & Applied
Physics, Kyunghee University, Korea. email: dlim@khu.ac.kr |
| Philip Wilson |
Ph.D. 2000: Second-harmonic generation
spectroscopy using broad bandwidth femtosecond pulses
Postdoc at NIST-Gaithersburg (2000-2002)
Currently at Milliken Research Corporation, Spartanburg, SC
email: Philip.Wilson@Milliken.com |
| Erhard Gaul |
Ph.D. 2000: Fully ionized helium waveguides
for laser wakefield acceleration Laser scientist at Gesellschaft für Schwerionforschung (GSI),
Darmstadt, Germany (2001-04); Currently Chief Laser Scientist,
Texas Petawatt Laser project. email: gaul@physics.utexas.edu |
| William
Chism |
Ph.D. 2000: Nonlinear classical dynamics
in intense laser-atom physics (The University of Texas at
Austin, supervisor: L.E. Reichl). Current work: Ultrafast coherent
dynamics in semiconductors
Currently at Sematech, email: william.chism@sematech.org |
| Mikal Grimes |
Ph.D. 1998: Vacuum heating absorption
and expansion of solid surfaces induced by intense femtosecond
laser irradiation
Currently at Matrix NetSystems, Austin, TX
email: grimes@alumni.princeton.edu |
| Yun-shik
Lee |
Ph.D. 1997: Optical fourth harmonic generation
at crystalline surfaces
Postdoctoral associate, U. Michigan (1997-99, supervisor
Prof. Ted Norris); Currently Assistant Professor of Physics,
Oregon State University
301 Weniger Hall
Corvallis, OR 97331-6507
tel: 541-737-5057
email: leeys@physics.orst.edu
Prof. Lee is the author of the recently published book
Principles
of Terahertz Science and Technology (Springer, 2008) |
| Xiaofeng Hu |
Ph.D. 1997: Femtosecond linear and nonlinear
spectroscopy of silicon, germanium and silicon-germanium alloys
Currently Member of Technical Staff, KLA-Tencor
email: Xiaofeng.Hu@kla-tencor.com |
| Craig
Siders |
Ph.D. 1996: An experimental demonstration
of the laser wakefield "photon accelerator": longitudinal
interferometric diagnostics for plasma based accelerators.
Director's postdoctoral fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratory
(1996-98); Research Faculty Scientist, UC-San Diego (1998-2000);
Asst Prof. of Optics, CREOL, U. Central Florida, Orlando, FL.
(2001-05); currently Advanced Research Program Element Leader,
National Ignition Facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
siders2@llnl.gov |
| Jerry Dadap |
Ph.D. 1995: Optical second harmonic
electro- and thermo-reflectance spectroscopy of Si(001)/SiO2,
H-Si(001), and Si(001)-(2x1) interfaces by femtosecond laser
pulses. Postdoctoral fellow, Physics Dept., Columbia U.
(1996-2000); Senior MTS, Tellium, Inc., NJ (2001-04); Currently
Research Scientist, Brookhaven Natl. Laboratory and Columbia
University. jerry@cumsl.msl.columbia.edu |
| Hyeyoung Ahn |
Ph.D. 1994: Femtosecond dynamics of
condensed matter under planetary interior conditions; Research
Scientist, Nippon Telegraph & Telecommunication (NTT, 1994-96);
Research Fellow, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI,
1996-2000); Research Scientist, Dept. Physics, National Tsing-Hua
U., Taiwan. (2001-05); Currently Prof. of Photonics, Natl, Chiao
Tung U., Hsinchu, Taiwan hyahn@mail.NCTU.edu.tw |
| Xiaoyi "Charlie" Wang |
Ph.D. 1993: Hydro- and electro-dynamics
of solid targets under intense femtosecond laser excitation;
Postdoctoral fellow and Senior Research Scientist, Columbia
U. (1993-98). Currently Senior Development Engineer, Coherent
Laser Group, Coherent, Inc., Santa Clara, CA. charlie.wang@coherent.com |
| Heung Ro Choo |
Ph.D. 1992: Rapid scan femtosecond ellipsometry
and its application to optical surface diagnostics and ultrafast
carrier dynamics in semiconductors; Senior Researcher, Electronics
& Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), Daejon,
Korea (1993-2000); since 2000, founder and CEO of XL
Photonics, Inc. based in Daejon, Korea, a manufacturer of
optoelectronic transmitter/receiver modules for the telecommunications
industry. hrchoo@xl-photonics.com |
| Gary W. Burdick |
Ph.D. 1991: Third order contributions
to spin-forbidden rare earth optical transition intensities;
Currently Professor of Physics, Andrews University, Michigan.
gburdick@andrews.edu |
| William M. Wood |
Ph.D. 1991: Femtosecond study of plasma generation
and dynamics by blueshifting of high intensity laser pulses;
monty@lanl.gov |
| David H. Reitze* |
Ph.D. 1990: Femtosecond dynamics of
phase transitions in carbon and silicon; Currently Professor
of Physics, U. of Florida (Gainesville), and Director of the
International
Laser Inteferometric Gravitational Observatory (LIGO) project.
Prof. Reitze gave the Plenary Address on the LIGO project at
the 2008 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO '08). |
| Glenn B. Focht |
Ph.D. 1990: Frequency shifting of femtosecond laser
pulses;
Sadly, Glenn died of cancer in 2004. In his memory, Prof.
and Mrs. Downer are now establishing the "Jane and Mike
Downer Graduate Fellowship in Laser Physics in memory of Glenn
Bryant Focht" through a gift to the University of Texas
at Austin. |
Former Postdoctoral Fellows
| Chih-Hao Pai |
2011-2013 |
Currently Associate Professor at Tsinghua University |
| Steven A. Reed |
2007-2009 |
Currently Technical Staff member at The
Aerospace Corporation, El
Segundo, California. |
| Yong An |
2004-2008 |
Research Fellow, Los Alamos National Laboratories anyq@physics.utexas.edu |
| Andy Rundquist |
1998-2000 |
Currently Assistant Professor of Physics, Hamline
University
MC198, 1536 Hewitt Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55104
tel: 651-523-2513
email: arundqui@piper.hamline.edu |
| Lucymarie Mantese |
1998-2000 |
Currently Member of Technical Staff, Agilent Technologies
San Jose, CA
email: lucymarie_mantese@agilent.com |
| Paul Le Blanc |
1995-1999 |
Currently Member of Technical Staff, 3M Research Site
Building A003-1N-05
11705 Research Blvd.
Austin, TX 78759
tel: 512-984-2272
email: pleblanc@mmm.com |
| Zhiwei Xu |
1993-1995 |
Currently Member of Technical Staff, Applied Materials, Inc.
3100 Bowers Ave.
M/S 0225
Santa Clara, CA 95054
tel: 408-235-4530
email: Zhiwei_Xu@amat.com |
| D. Mark Riffe |
1991-1993 |
Currently Associate Professor of Physics, Utah State University
Logan, UT 84322-4415
tel: 801-797-3896
fax: 801-797-2492 |
| W. C. Banyai |
1989-1991 |
Currently staff scientist, Stanford University, CA |
| J. I. Trisnadi |
1989-1991 |
Currently staff scientist, Tamarack Storage Devices, Inc.,
Austin, TX |
| T. R. Zhang |
1986-1988 |
Currently staff scientist, Compact Software, Inc., Paterson,
NJ |
Former Master's Students
| Name |
Thesis Title and Current Position |
| Spencer Jolly |
M.A. 2014: Two-Color High Intensity Laser Plasma Interaction Phenomena, and Status of Experiments on the UT^3 Laser System
Currently working in collaboration with ELI in Prague and the University of Hamburg email: spencer.jolly@eli-beams.eu |
| Aaron Roberts |
M.A. 2012 |
| Adrienne Prem |
M.S. 2011 |
| Dongsu Du |
M.A. 2010 dudongsu@physics.utexas.edu |
| Stefan Bedacht |
M.A. 2009 bedacht@physics.utexas.edu |
| Adrian Wirth |
M.A. 2007:Second harmonic spectroscopy of silicon
nanocrystals
Currently at Max Planck Insitute of Quantum Optics, email: adrian.wirth@mpq.mpg.de |
| P. J. Smith |
M.A. 2007: Optical WMD, email: peej@physics.utexas.edu |
| Sebastian Jung |
M.A. 2005: Laser Wakefield Frequency Domain
Interferometry , email: crazystudent@gmx.net |
| Alexander Debus |
M.A. 2004: Guiding a high-energy laser
beam through a plasma channel
Currently at Friedrich-Schiller-University at the Institute
for Optics and Quantum Electronics in Jena, email: AlexanderDebus@gmx.de |
| Carsten
Winterfeldt |
M.A. 2002: Optical
Parametric Amplifier for Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy
Currently at University of Würzburg, email: winterfeldt@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de |
| Jesse
Canterbury |
M.S. 2000: Imaging of electric fields
at metal-semiconductor junctions using electric-field-induced
second harmonic generation (EFISH).
Currently working at University of Washington, email: canter@phys.washington.edu |
| Thomas Pfeifer |
M.A. 2000: Phase matched generation
of soft X-rays in hollow core capillaries.
Currently working at University of Würzburg, email: tpfeifer@cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de |
| Claudia Maria Treml |
Frequency resolved optical gating (FROG).
(email: catreml@cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) |
| Mark Anderson |
Nonlinear spectroscopy of silicon interfaces
(CPE 4.438, tel: 512-471-5734; email: anderson@physics.utexas.edu) |
| Nelson Turner III |
M. S. 1994: Dual beam detection of frequency
shifted ultrafast laser pulses; currently staff scientist,
Research Electro-Optics, Inc., Boulder, CO |
| Alexander Frey |
M.S. 1994: Repetition rate synchronization
of a colliding-pulse mode-locked laser with an external oscillator;
currently Ph.D. candidate, U. Wurzburg,
Germany |
| Erhard W. Gaul |
M.S. 1993: The Table-Top-Terawatt laser:
generation, stabilization, and amplification of ultrashort pulses;
currently Ph.D. candidate, U. of Texas at Austin. |
| Mercel ter Beek |
Nonlinear spectroscopy of Si-oxynitride interfaces
Novellus Systems, Inc., 1701 Directors Blvd Suite 900, Austin,
TX 78744, tel: 512-326-1122 (jointly supervised with J. M. White,
Department of Chemistry) |
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