IAMPI 2006

I am at the IAMPI 2006 conference in Syeged Hungarz. It started on sunday 9:00 am, so you can tell that participans are brave. I will be making a brief overview about the talks in this particular meeting. Up to now, the topics have been verz different ranging from ab initio atomic calculations up to x ray spectrometers, but it is aesy to see the search for high photon energy sources as well as short laser pulses with very different schemes.

Attosecond science | The fast show | Economist.com

Attosecond science | The fast show | Economist.com: "Extremely short laser pulses can illuminate electrons in motion". The article talk about the Atto boys and attowords, more than scientific news, shows already the importance of the field in the world.

atto06 � Forthcoming Papers

From the Attosecond Science Workshop at
Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA (31 July - 15 September 2006) We have a list of the atto06 � Forthcoming Papers

Congratulations to Prof. Paul Corkum.

Frontiers in Optics 2006 (FiO) – Laser Science XXII (LS) – The 90th OSA Annual Meeting: "Arthur L. Schawlow Prize and Lecture

Arthur L. Schawlow Prize: The Schawlow Prize recognizes outstanding contributions to basic research that use lasers to advance our knowledge of the fundamental physical properties of materials and their interaction with light.

2006 Recipient: The Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society awards the 2006 Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science to Paul B. Corkum for seminal contributions to the development of ultrasoft, intense laser-field science, including his development of the recollision model for laser-matter interactions, and his leadership in the emerging field of attosecond laser science.

UNM Today: Physicist Jean Claude-Diels to deliver UNM's Annual Research Lecture

Public Lecture in New Mexico Today: UNM Today: Physicist Jean Claude-Diels to deliver UNM's Annual Research Lecture

radial distribution of white light

radial distribution of white light
Originally uploaded by femtoluz.

I found this nice photo while browsing Flickr. This is made by people in CICESE, Ensenada at Mexico. The photo is very nice, hopefully a lot of people start uploading figures and photos like these

Information Bits

A blog dedicated to comment on the new lasers developed by the industry lasers.

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Artificial atoms amplify light

A UK-Swiss team describes how it generated laser light without the need for a population inversion in the current issue of Nature Materials.

Physicists have found a new way to amplify light that could make lasers more efficient. Chris Phillips at Imperial College in London and colleagues at the University of Neuchâtel in Switzerland made the breakthrough using specially patterned nanocrystals that behave as artificial atoms.

Because the separation between energy levels in their crystals can be controlled, laser light can be produced without the need for a population inversion. The technique could also find applications in optical data storage and even allow materials to become completely transparent (Nature Materials 5 175).

The active medium in a laser is usually a gas or a crystal in which the atoms have been excited or "pumped" so that more electrons exist in the upper of two energy levels. Once such a population inversion has been achieved, a beam of light passing through the medium can stimulate electrons to fall into the lower energy level and emit a photon of the same wavelength. The emitted photons then go on to de-excite further atoms, amplifying the original beam.More at optics.org

Defense Tech: Real-Life Ray Gun: Say When?

I think this is a good example about the applications of basic research. Let me be clear, it is our duty to inform people about what filamentation is really about. By doing this, we can avoid the use of misleading information and also avoid its use for non-ethical purposes. Defense Tech: Real-Life Ray Gun: Say When?

Attosecond pump-probe proposed to explore the dance of electrons

Attosecond pump-probe proposed to explore the dance of electrons

15th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena

THz Science & Technology Network 15th International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena

July 31-August 4, 2006
Pacific Grove, California, USA

The 2006 Ultrafast Phenomena Conference will be the fifteenth in a series on advances in research on ultrafast science and technology. This meeting is widely recognized as the major international forum for the discussion of new work in this rapidly moving field."

The funny thing is that it overlaps with the other conference at the Kavli Institue also in California previoulsy announced here. No talking here .

KITP - Attosecond Science Workshop

The Kavli Institute for theoretical Physics is hosting the KITP - Attosecond Science Workshop. It is announced as follows

The main goals of this seven week workshop are to bring experimentalists and theorists together to jointly examine and discuss in sufficient depth and detail the following general topics: (1) the key fundamental scientific issues of the dynamics of matter on attosecond time scales; (2) the current obstacles to improvement and extension of attosecond technology to shorter times and higher intensities; and (3) the directions for new applications of attosecond technology in atomic, molecular, plasma, and solid state physics as well as other fields.

From Tuesday, 1 August - Friday, 4 August 2006, we will hold a four-day conference on "Attosecond Science: Status and Prospects." One need not be a workshop participant to attend the conference

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fastest view of molecular motion

The new laboratory at the Imperial College is really showing some of the first results, several more willcome during following years. BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Fastest view of molecular motion. More on this very widely published work at PhysOrg The Worlds Fastest Measurements of Molecular Vibrations

Several PhD at MPI Heidelberg

Several PhD Studentships: MPI Heidelberg | jobs.pro-physik.de

APS meeting

Nature comment about the APS March meeting, The editors have picked several interesting sessions, among them, this one seems interesting Session K1: Optical Frequency Clocks and Experimental Quantum Optics. More about it in the Nature NewsBlog

Ultrafast Science starts

I am staring this blog dedicated to the ultrafast science.