Webinar: OPTICS & PHOTONICS RESEARCH IN THE COVID-19 & CLIMATE CHANGE – Dr Thomas Baer

2 minutes read The global challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the longer term effects of climate change require coordinated efforts by the scientific and engineering communities to provide accurate information to government officials to guide them as they put in place evidenced-based governmental policies to mitigate and adapt to these major challenges. I will discuss recent joint international programs sponsored by the Optical Society (OSA) and the American Geophysical Union (AGU) for developing and deploying photonics instrumentation to measure and monitor greenhouse and air pollution gases in urban settings and an innovative program sponsored by the OSA Foundation for deploying UV-C based safe and effective decontamination equipment for decontaminating personal protection equipment in limited resource setting. These programs are coordinating the activities of international teams of OSA and AGU scientists and engineers and are providing them with the opportunities to productively engage with government officials in their regions and make significant contributions to meeting these global challenges.

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Webinar: LASER SPECTROSCOPY AT EXTREME LIMITS – Dr Hanieh Fattahi

< 1 minute read To capture four dimensional movies of electron dynamics in matter, attosecond resolution in time domain and picometer resolution in space are required. This calls for availability of attosecond pulses with kilo-electronvolt pulse energies, which is beyond the state of the art. This talk is devoted to modern methods for generating ultrashort pulses to overcome this barrier. Coherent synthesis of few-cycle pulses at different carrier frequencies allows for engineering the electric field of light with an arbitrary shape and generating sub-cycle pulses (light transients). Such pulses hold promise to generate attosecond pulses at higher photon energies, paving way towards capturing four dimensional movie of electron-dynamic in matter. I discuss this exotic concept and demonstrate the first prototype high-energy field synthesiser based on Yb:YAG, thin-disk laser technology.

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