Victor Malka

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Victor Malka (* 1960 in Casablanca ) is a French physicist .

Malka came from a Jewish family in Morocco and came to France at the age of six, where he grew up in Marseille and in the Parisian suburbs. He studied at the Ecole nationale supérieure de chimie in Rennes and received his doctorate from the École polytechnique with a dissertation in atomic and plasma physics. He then worked at the École Polytechnique for the CNRS (from 1990), from 2004 as Research Director of the Laboratory for Applied Optics (LOA). From 2003 to 2015 he was a professor at the École polytechnique. He has been a professor at the Weizmann Institute since 2015 .

Malka is a pioneer in Laser Plasma Acceleration (LPA). In 2004, he was part of a group at LOA plasma acceleration demonstrated high to produce mono-energetic electron beams (Laser Wakefield Accelerator) Energy (whatever did this, a group at Imperial College London and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). He also applied these to the development of compact X-ray and gamma radiation sources with applications in medicine, security technology and phase contrast imaging.

In 2007 he received the IEEE Particle Accelerator Science and Technology Award , in 2017 the Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics and in 2019 the Hannes Alfvén Prize .

Fonts (selection)

  • with A. Modena a. a .: Electron acceleration from the breaking of relativistic plasma waves, Nature, Volume 377, 1995, p. 606
  • with F. Amiranoff u. a .: Observation of laser wakefield acceleration of electrons, Physical Review Letters, Volume 81, 1998, p. 995
  • with D. Gordon a. a .: Observation of electron energies beyond the linear dephasing limit from a laser-excited relativistic plasma wave, Physical Review Letters, Volume 80, 1998, p. 2133
  • with S. Fritzler u. a .: Electron acceleration by a wake field forced by an intense ultrashort laser pulse, Science, Volume 298, 2002, pp. 1596–1600
  • Faure, Malka et al. a .: A laser-plasma accelerator producing monoenergetic electron beams, Nature, Volume 431, 2004, pp. 541-544, PMID 15457253
  • with A. Rousse u. a .: Production of a keV X-ray beam from synchrotron radiation in relativistic laser-plasma interaction, Phys. Rev. Lett., Vol. 93, 2004, p. 135005
  • Malka et al. a .: Laser-Plasma Wakefield acceleration: Concepts, tests and Premises, Proc. European Particle Accelerator Conference (EPAC) 2006, Edinburgh, pp. 10-13
  • with J. Faure u. a .: Controlled injection and acceleration of electrons in plasma wakefields by colliding laser pulses, Nature, Volume 444, 2006, p. 737
  • with J. Fuchs a. a .: Laser-driven proton scaling laws and new paths towards energy increase, Nature Physics, Volume 2, 2006, p. 48
  • with J. Faure u. a .: Principles and applications of compact laser – plasma accelerators, Nature Physics, Volume 4, 2008, p. 447
  • with KT Phuoc u. a .: All-optical Compton gamma-ray source, Nature Photonics, Volume 6, 2012, p. 308
  • with S. Corde u. a .: Femtosecond x rays from laser-plasma accelerators, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 85, 2013, p. 1

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics , Springer, accessed January 20, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Malka, Victor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Casablanca