Paul Corkum

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Paul Bruce Corkum (born October 30, 1943 in Saint John (New Brunswick) ) is a Canadian physicist who deals with laser physics and atomic physics and a pioneer of atomic and molecular physics in the time domain of attoseconds with the use of corresponding ultrashort laser pulses. He is Director of the Laboratory for Attoseconds Photonics at the University of Ottawa - National Research Council of Canada .

Life

Corkum received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1965 from Acadia University in Nova Scotia . In 1967 he received the Master of Science and in 1972 the Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Lehigh University , Pennsylvania . He stayed at Lehigh University for another year as a post-doctoral student and in 1973 joined the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), where he switched from theoretical to experimental physics. According to his own statements, he convinced himself and his future employer by learning to repair cars from the ground up during his studies. In 1990 he formed a femtosecond research group at the NRC's Steacie Institute for Molecular Science, which under his leadership became one of the leading international research groups in this field. In 2008 he became professor (on a Canada Research Chair) of attosecond photonics at the University of Ottawa and director of the joint laboratory of NRC and University of Ottawa for research in the attosecond range . He is also an Adjunct Professor at McMaster University , the University of British Columbia and Texas A&M University .

Corkum works both theoretically and experimentally. In the 1980s he developed a model of the ionization of atoms and based on it a new proposal for the construction of an X-ray laser (Optical field Ionization, OFI). In the 1990s he developed theories about various atomic physical phenomena in strong fields, such as the generation of higher harmonics and correlated double ionization. His re-collision electron model, in which tunnel ionization occurs through an intense laser field , but the tunneled electron is then accelerated back onto the ion in the laser field and is superimposed there in a correlated manner with the bound state, also served as the basis for his proposal to generate attoseconds -Pulses, which he and Austrian colleagues achieved for the first time in 2001 (pulse length less than 1 femtosecond). It was used to generate higher harmonics and (as a kind of laser tunneling microscope ) to explore atoms and molecules in the Ångström range and below.

Corkum has received numerous awards for its work in the field of lasers . Thomson Reuters has been one of the favorites for a Nobel Prize in Physics since 2015 .

Awards

Memberships

Fonts

  • Plasma perspective on strong field multiphoton ionization. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 71, 1993, pp. 1994-1997
  • with NH Burnett, MY Ivanov: Subfemtosecond pulses. In: Optics Letters. Volume 19, 1994, pp. 1870-1872
  • with H. Niikura, F. Legaré, R. Hasbani, M. Ivanov, D. Villeneuve: Probing molecular dynamics with attosecond resolution using correlated wave packet pairs. In: Nature . Volume 421, 2003, pp. 826-829
  • with Ferenc Krausz : Attosecond Science. In: Nature Physics . Volume 3, 2007, pp. 381-387
  • with Chandrasekhar Joshi Interaction of ultra-intense laser light with matter , Physics Today, January 1995

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Paul Corkum, Jean-Marie Dufour, B. Brett Finlay, Roderick Guthrie and Susan Sherwin to receive $ 100,000 Killam Prizes for 2006. Canadian Council for the Arts , March 27, 2006, archived from Original on June 1, 2013 ; Retrieved June 21, 2011 .
  2. ↑ a b c Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) published on March 16, 2009 in Physics in Canada . Volume 65, No. 2, p. 58.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Paul Corkum. Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo , archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; Retrieved June 21, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Interview with Corkum, Highlights in Chemical Technology. RSC Publishing on August 28, 2008, archived from the original on September 26, 2008 .;
  5. ↑ Corkum: Recollision Physics. In: Physics Today. March 2011, pdf
  6. ↑ Hentschel, Corkum et al. a .: Attosecond metrology. In: Nature . Volume 414, 2001, pp. 509-513, abstract
  7. ↑ Announcing the 2015 Citation Laureates. Thomson Reuters, archived from the original on September 25, 2015 .;
  8. ^ Paul Corkum receives NSERC's prestigious Polanyi Award. University of Ottawa March 3, 2008, archived from the original June 20, 2008 ; Retrieved June 21, 2011 .
  9. ↑ Current Winner: Paul Corkum. NSERC , March 16, 2009, accessed June 21, 2011 .
  10. ↑ Sameen Ahmed Khan: 2013 King Faisal Prize awarded to PB Corkum and F. Krausz. In: EPS News. March 25, 2013, accessed October 20, 2018 .
  11. ↑ University of Rostock: Awarding an honorary doctorate for the most modern aspects of the photo effect. Retrieved July 4, 2019 .
  12. ^ Paul Corkum - Biography. Joint Attosecond Science Laboratory , archived from the original on March 17, 2018 ; Retrieved June 20, 2011 .
  13. ↑ New members of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 2012. (pdf) oeaw.ac.at, April 20, 2012, archived from the original on June 17, 2012 (corresponding members abroad, math and science class).;
personal data
SURNAME Corkum, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Corkum, Paul Bruce (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint John (New Brunswick)