" 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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Visiting the Extreme Laser Infrastructure (ELI) in Prague
Recently, Professor Joseph Sanderson was part of a delegation representing Canadian scientists associated with the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) which visited the Extreme Laser Infrastructure (ELL) in Prague to discuss closer ties...
Afaf Almoabadi presents research at the 2024 Photonics North Conference
Our PhD student, Afaf Almoabadi, participated in the Photonics North 2024 conference, held in Vancouver from May 28th to 30th. Afaf contributed to the conference by presenting a poster on her latest research.
Graduations and awards
There have been far too few news updates over the past couple of years unfortunately, which doesn't mean we haven't been busy. This year in September Sahr graduated with her masters, and last year Cathy and Ali graduated with their masters and Benji graduated with his PhD so congratulations to all of them as they move on to exciting new horizons working in devel