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Graduate student Kyle Kafka wins Best Oral Presentation Award at SPIE Laser Damage 2016

October 24, 2016

Graduate student Kyle Kafka wins Best Oral Presentation Award at SPIE Laser Damage 2016

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The oral presentation of Kyle R. P. Kafka from Chowdhury Group titled, “Few-cycle pulse laser-induced damage of thin films in air and vacuum ambience” has been selected as the best oral presentation at the 48th Boulder Laser Damage Symposium (https://spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/laser-damage). His research highlights how intense laser pulses as short as two optical cycles (5 femtoseconds) couples their energy into thin solid films and causes permanent change in surface morphology and structure of film stacks, primarily used as optics for ultra-broad band next generation laser system applications like the Petawatt Field Synthesizer (Basic concepts and current status of the petawatt field synthesizer – a new approach to ultrahigh field generation, Z. Major et al., The Review of Laser Engineering 37, 431 (2009)) .

This work was partially supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research.