Chris Barty

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Christopher Peter James "Chris" Barty is an American physicist who specializes in high-power lasers and their applications in the gamma and X-ray sectors. He is at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory , where he was most recently (LLNL) CTO for the National Ignition Facility NIF (which deals with inertial fusion with lasers) and the Photon Science Directorate.

Barty studied physical chemistry and chemical engineering at North Carolina State University with a Bachelor Accounts and was at the Stanford University doctorate in applied physics. He joined the LLNL in 2001 and became Professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2017 . There he heads their Convergence Optical Sciences Initiative for photonics applications in various fields.

In particular, he developed sources for X-ray and gamma radiation with laser Compton scattering on electron beams. These also enable new types of applications in the detection of radioactive material (isotopes via nuclear magnetic resonance fluorescence , NRF, with gamma rays; detection of hidden radioactive material in milliseconds) and its manipulation (radioactive waste that can be displayed in high resolution in their containers) and in the investigation the core structure. Laser Compton scattering was first discovered in the mid-1960s at electron accelerators and used to observe beam quality, and was revitalized in the 1990s when it was used to generate short X-ray pulses. In 2004 it was discovered at the LLNL that the brilliance of the laser Compton sources could be increased considerably by increasing the beam energy and quality of the electron accelerator, which ultimately led to the Compton sources reducing the synchrotron radiation sources to brilliance for gamma rays above 2 MeV energy exceeded up to 15 powers of ten.

In 2017 he became an IEEE Fellow . He is also a Fellow of the American Physical Society (for pioneering work on the development of ultra-high intensity lasers and contributions to X-ray and gamma ray physics based on lasers), a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (for pioneering work on intense short laser pulses and application to X-rays), and he is Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Electronics (SPIE), whose Harold E. Edgerton Award he received in 2016. In 2018 he received the RW Wood Prize . In 2017 he became a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

In 2018 he chairs the International Committee on Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers (ICUIL).

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  1. ^ Brian Bell, Christopher Barty named AAAS fellow , UCI, November 20, 2017
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SURNAME Barty, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barty, Christopher Peter James (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century