Paul Corkum

Biography

Professor Corkum is working as a Professor in the Department of Physics, at University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Corkum uses the interaction of intense, short, infrared light pulses with atoms or molecules to generate coherent soft X-ray radiation and attosecond light pulses. The extreme nonlinear physics underlying these processes arises when intense laser light ionizes the material and controls the ionized electrons. These light-controlled electrons produce coherent soft X-ray radiation when the electric field of the laser pulse forces each electron to re-collide (and recombine) with the ion from which it left. The attosecond soft X-ray pulses that this recombination produces are the shortest controlled light flashes currently available to science. He is the author of many articles published in several reputed journals. 

Research Interest

  Experimental Photonics, Nonlinear optics, Nonlinear light-matter interactions, Ultra-short light-pulse generation, Time-resolved dynamics, Attosecond physics, Electron tunnelling, Molecular imaging, Imaging mass spectrometry, Soft X-ray technology.