Mentor: Burcin Bayram, Ph.D. A chirped pulse is a short optical or electromagnetic pulse in which the frequency and phase change over time. The use of chirped laser pulses, where the laser frequency ...

Femtosecond laser pulses, with durations on the order of 10⁻¹⁵ seconds, have transformed the landscape of ultrafast optics by enabling the exploration of rapid light–matter interactions. The dynamics ...

Chirp measurements in radar applications are used to determine the quality of transmitted pulses. The primary quality indicators revolve around the need for the transmitted pulse to be free of ...

Generating intense ultrashort pulses with high spatial quality has opened up possibilities for ultrafast and strong-field science. It is so important that the Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was given to ...

Physicists in Sweden have come up with a new way of accelerating ions using intense laser pulses. The technique – which has not yet been tested in the lab – involves bouncing “chirped” pulses from a ...

An international team of researchers has demonstrated an innovative technique for increasing the intensity of lasers. This approach, based on the compression of light pulses, would make it possible to ...