" Our research projects are focused on the Interaction of Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Matter. "
Our research in collaboration with students, research associates and other researchers in Waterloo in Canada and beyond, focuses on understanding the way that intense laser radiation in extremely short femtosecond pulses* interacts with and modifies matter.
What is Femtosecond?
* one femtosecond is one thousand million millionth of a second or 10 -15s.
" The femtosecond laser electric field is bigger than the one which binds electrons to an atom,
and so the interaction can rip matter apart.
We are interested in understanding how this process happens... "
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Group Meeting followed by Lunch
After a lab meeting consisting of group member presentations, we followed up by trying a new lunch spot!
34th International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions ICPEAC 2025
Professor Joseph Sanderson attended the 34th International Conference on Photonic, Electronic, and Atomic Collisions, ICPEAC 2025, in JAPAN.
Congratulations to Aydin
"Reconstructing real-space geometries of polyatomic molecules undergoing strong field laser-induced Coulomb explosion" Has been accepted for publication in the journal Physics Communications (part of the Nature group of journals)