Dr. Michael Tripepi graduated in 2022, and began his career as an assistant professor of Physics at Hillsdale College, MI in the fall of 2022. His PhD was on studying strong field nonlinearity in solids in the near to mid-infrared…
Dr. Noah Talisa graduated in December 2020. His specialty was generating and characterizing few-cycle laser pulses and capturing few cycle laser solid damage dynamics. He is currently a scientist at the APL.
Dr. Kevin Werner Graduated from Chowdhury Group in January 2019. His PhD thesis is titled, “Ultrafast Mid-Infrared Laser-Solid Interactions”, where he studied strong field interaction in mid-IR wavelengths with materials like Si, Ge, ZnSe, ZnS, etc. His key research and…
At the recently concluded 49th SPIE Laser Damage, Boulder, CO, Dr. Kafka received the prestigious Alexander Glass Best Oral Presentation Award for the 2016 SPIE Laser Damage Conference, for his PhD research in Chowdhury group on few cycle pulse laser…
Recent graduate (August 2017) from Chowdhury Group, Dr. Drake Austin joins Agostini-DiMauro Group for postdoctoral research on strong field laser matter interaction. His Dissertation was titled “Semiconductor Surface Modification using Mid-Infrared, Femtosecond Laser Pulses” in which he presented his pioneering…
Dr. Kyle Kafka, who recently obtained his PhD from Chowdhury group in 2017, accepted a Research Associate position at the prestigious Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE), Rochester, USA. LLE, home of the OMEGA and OMEGA EP laser facilities, is a…
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)….
Femtosecond Solid Dynamics Lab of Prof. Chowdhury has participated in the world-wide Thin Film Laser damage competition at the 48th Boulder Laser Damage Symposium (world’s longest running laser conference) as the official Damage Testing Facility for 2015 and 2016. They…
Prof. Chowdhury, in collaboration with Prof. Jay Gupta, won one of the three of this year’s Institute of Material Research (IMR) team building seed grant awards, to study intense field interaction of single atomic defect states on solid surfaces with…
Prof. Chowdhury’s Lab is part of AFOSR MURI (Multi-disciplinary Univeristy Research Initiative) program headed by Prof. Dimauro of OSU Physics. The Program focuses on probing intense field light matter interaction in Mid-IR frequencies. Femto-solid lab will primarily study how femtosecond…