Szymon Suckewer

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Szymon Suckewer (born April 10, 1938 in Warsaw ) is an American physicist from Poland who specializes in X-ray lasers and microscopy with X-ray lasers, the generation of ultra-short laser pulses and lasers for gas and plasma diagnostics.

Suckewer studied physics at Lomonosov University in Moscow with a diploma in 1962, received his doctorate in plasma physics at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Warsaw in 1966 , where he then headed the group for plasma spectroscopy until 1969, and obtained his habilitation in 1971 (doctorate according to the Russian system). After that he was a lecturer at the Institute for Nuclear Research in Warsaw until 1975. In 1975 he went to Princeton University , where he was Senior Research Physicist in the Plasma Physics Laboratory from 1980 . From 1987 he was professor and head of the group for the development of X-ray lasers, i.e. with wavelengths below 30  nm .

In 1984 he and his group were able to operate a laser at a wavelength of 18.2 nm in a plasma of carbon ions. (This was the first successful demonstration of laser operation in the soft X-ray range, roughly at the same time with a group at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory with Peter Hagelstein and others ) In 1985, he recognized the need to create new techniques for ultra-short high-intensity laser pulses in order to produce X-ray lasers with even shorter wavelengths , and directed his research group accordingly. In 1987 he used a krypton fluoride laser to generate ultrashort pulses with an intensity of . With these pulses, he was able to trigger laser operation in a plasma made of lithium ions at a wavelength of 13.5 nm in 1996 . In the 2000s he is still active in the development of X-ray lasers with even shorter wavelengths (a few nanometers).

He also deals with the use of lasers in medicine (e.g. eye surgery).

In 2007 he received the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize for Laser Physics for pioneering work on the generation of lasers with ultra-short wavelengths and femtosecond pulses and X-ray laser microscopy . In 2005 he received the Willis E. Lamb Prize . He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America .

Fonts (selection)

  • with CH Skinner: Soft x-ray lasers and their applications . In: Science . tape 247 , no. 4950 , March 30, 1990, pp. 1553–1557 , doi : 10.1126 / science.2321016 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
  2. ↑ S. Suckewer, CH Skinner, H. Milchberg, C. Keane, D. Voorhees: Amplification of stimulated soft x-ray emission in a confined plasma column . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 55 , no. 17 , October 21, 1985, pp. 1753–1756 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.55.1753 .
  3. ^ DV Korobkin, CH Nam, S. Suckewer, A. Goltsov: Demonstration of Soft X-Ray Lasing to Ground State in Li III . In: Physical Review Letters . tape 77 , no. 26 , December 23, 1996, pp. 5206-5209 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.77.5206 .
  4. ↑ Laudation: For pioneering contributions to the generation of ultra-short wavelength and femtosecond lasers and x-ray laser microscopy
  5. ↑ To receive the Lamb Prize
personal data
SURNAME Suckewer, Szymon
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw