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Femto-solid Lab part of a $12.5 million AFOSR MURI program

Femto-solid Lab part of a $12.5 million AFOSR MURI program

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…

Femto-solid laboratory performs laser damage testing of mirrors for ELI HAPLS project

Femto-solid laboratory performs laser damage testing of mirrors for ELI HAPLS project

      (Left) LLNL $45 million HAPLS laser developed for ELI Beamline, > 1PW, 30 fs, 10 Hz. (Right) Artist rendition of ELI beamline in Czec Republic, EU 350 million facility being constructed Chowdhury Lab was contracted recently by…

Kyle Kafka wins PGSC Poster Award

https://physics.osu.edu/news/pgsc-poster-competition-winners-receive-1500-scholarships

OSU Junior Evan Lang wins Outstanding Scholar Award

OSU Junior Evan Lang wins Outstanding Scholar Award

Undergrad Evan Lang (Adviser: Enam Chowdhury) worked at the Air Force Research Laboratory for Directed Energy in Kirtland Air Force Base in Summer 2014 as an AFRL fellow (http://afrlscholars.usra.edu/). For his outstanding contribution to the Project, he received the Outstanding…

How solids behave under extreme laser fields

Our efforts are directed towards fundamental understanding of intense laser matter interaction near material damage threshold. Although laser interaction with solids began with the advent of the laser 50+ years ago, many important aspects of the interaction, especially those that…