Michalis Andrianakis is an Electrical Engineer, graduated of the Hellenic Mediterranean University of Crete (HelMedU), holding an MSc degree in “Advanced automation system and robotics”. Since 2010, he has been working at IESL-FORTH. His main tasks include the development of electronic and optical systems, imaging, and systems control software. He has conducted numerous measurement campaigns in Greece and around Europe employing a mobile Digital Holographic Interferometry instrument for in-situ, non-destructive survey of museum objects and monuments in the context of several mobile access investigations supported through the IPERION-CH and POLITEIA-I projects or provided on a service basis.
He has actively participated in major national and EU projects at IESL-FORTH including IPERION-HS, HELLAS-CH, POLITEIA-I and II, IPERION-CH, Climate for Culture, CHARISMA, SYDARTA.
Education
- 2015,Msc in Advanced Production Systems, Automation and Robotics, Technological Educational Institute of Crete, Greece
- 2010, Electrical Engineer, Technological Educational Institute of Crete,Greece
Career
- 2010, Technical staff in Photonics group ,FORTH – IESL, Greece
- 2009, Training Scholarship, FORTH – IESL, Greece
Interests
- Computer and machine vision
- Image processing and analysis
- Applications with Scientific and commercial cameras
- Computer software applications
- Systems development
- Use of spectroscopic and interferometric techniques for analysis on Works of Art, Archeological objects and materials
- Acquisition (DAQ) devices control
- Motors speed and position control
- Robotics
- Automations
- Electrical and electronic circuits
Other
I have participate in many training courses within the country and abroad, teaching the use of an interferometric technic
Conducting experiments in 7 countries through a European program, for in-situ non-destructive measurements on artworks and archeological objects (IPERION-CH Molab)
Technical and experimental support to facility users, Post Doc, PhDs, students, conducting experiments in the metrology laboratory at Iesl – Forth, on materials and works of art
S. H. Anastasiadis is a Professor of Polymer Science & Engineering at the Dept. of Chemistry of the Univ. of Crete and the former Director of the Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser (IESL) of the Foundation for Research & Technology - Hellas (FORTH). He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from Princeton University in 1988. He has been a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in 1988-1989. He was awarded the John H. Dillon Medal of the American Physical Society (APS) in 1998 and was elected Fellow of APS in 2000. He has been an Editor of the Journal of Polymer Science: Part B: Polymer Physics (5/2006-7/2010). He served as a Consulting Editor of AIChE J. and as a Member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Macromolecules. He is a Member of the Quality Assurance Committee (01/2009–now) whereas he has served as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Research Integrity and Ethics (07/2018–12/2021) and the Vice Chair of the Technical Council (02/2011–10/2016) of the University of Crete. He has served as the elected President of the European Polymer Federation (EPF) for the years 2018 and 2019 whereas he serves as President of the Hellenic Polymer Society (12/2012-now). He was elected a Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor at Cornell University for the Academic year 2018-2019. He is a Member of the Supreme Council of the Hellenic Authority of Higher Education (8/2023-now) whereas he has served as a Member of the Evaluation and Accreditation Council of the Hellenic Authority of Higher Education (5/2020-5/2023) and the Vice-Chair of the Sectoral Scientific Council on Engineering Sciences of the National Council of Research, Technology and Innovation (11/2020-now). He was elected Director of IESL-FORTH in 05/2013 and was re-elected in 11/2018; his tenure ended in 02/2023.
Education
- 1988 Ph.D., Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, U. S. A.
- 1984, Master of Arts, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, U. S. A.
- 1983, Diploma, Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
Career
- 10/2008 – Today, Professor, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Crete, Heraklion Crete, Greece
- 05/2013 – 02/2023, Director, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 09/1991 – Today, Affiliated Faculty Member, Institute of Electronic Structure & Laser, FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 09/2005 – 10/2008, Professor, Dept. of Chem. Eng., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece
- 05/2004 – 09/2005, Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 10/1997 – 05/2004, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 05/1993 – 10/1997, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
- 04/1988 – 12/1989, Visiting Scientist, IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Interests
- Polymer Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
- Polymer Blends, Homopolymer / Copolymer Blends
- Block Copolymers - Order/Disorder Transitions
- Dynamics & Diffusion in Multiconstituent Systems
- Organic/Inorganic Nanohybrid Materials
- Responsive Polymer Systems
- Polymer Materials for Energy Applications
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- 1998, American Physical Society John H. Dillon Medal: “For pioneering studies of the structure and dynamics of polymer solutions, melts, interfaces, and thin films”
- 2000, American Physical Society Fellow: “For important contributions to the dynamics of block copolymers in the melt and in solution and on the structure and dynamics of polymer interfaces and thin films” Editor,
- 2018 & 2019, President of the European Polymer Federation (EPF)
- 2018-2019, Mary Shepard B. Upson Visiting Professor, Cornell University
- 8/2023 - Today, Member of the Supreme Council, Hellenic Authority of Higher Education
- 5/2020-5/2023, Member of the Evaluation & Accreditation Council, Hellenic Authority of Higher Education
- 11/2020-Today, Vice-Chair of the Sectoral Scientific Council on Engineering Sciences of the National Council of Research, Technology and Innovation
- 3/2021-Today, Chairman of the Regional Committee of Model and Experimental Schools of the Region of Crete
- 5/2006 - 7/2010, Editor, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics
- 7/2010-12/2021, Consulting Editor, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics
- 8/2012-12/2016, Consulting Editor, AIChE Journal
- 1/2015-12/2017, Member of the Editorial Board, Macromolecules
- 1/2020-Today, Member of the Editorial Board, Polymers
- 02/2003-05/2006, Member of the Editorial Board, Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics
- 1987, Graduate Student Award, Materials Research Society
- 1985, Best Paper Award, Society of Plastics Engineers - Plastics Analysis Division (ANTEC)
- 1979, 1980, 1983, Hellenic Engineering Society Award - Fellowship
- 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, Greek National Scholarship Foundation Fellowship
- 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, "A. Tiftixi" Foundation Award - Fellowship
Education
- 2016, M.Sc in Micro / Optoelectronics, Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
- 2013, B.Sc in Physics, Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
Education
- 2009, Ph.D., Physics department, University of Crete, Greece
- 2004, M.Sc., Physics department, University of Crete, Greece
- 2001, B.Sc., Physics department, University of Crete, Greece
Career
- 12/2016 - today, Post Doctoral Researcher, Microelectronics Research Group (MRG), FORTH - IESL, Greece
- 10/2015 - 11/2016, Research associate, Physics Dpt, University of Crete, Greece
- 02/2010-09/2015, Research associate, Microelectronics Research Group (MRG), FORTH - IESL, Greece
Interests
- III-Nitride wide band gap semiconductors
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy growth of III-Nitrides
- III-nitride based Heterostructures and Nanostructures for Electronic and Optoelectronic applications
The carrier-envelope phase (CEP) of high-peak-power, many-cycle laser fields becomes a crucial parameter when such fields are used, in conjunction with polarization gating techniques, in isolated attosecond (asec) pulse generation. However, its measurement has not been achieved so far.We demonstrate a physical process sensitive to the CEP value of such fields and describe a method for its online shot-to-shot monitoring. This work paves the way for the exploitation of energetic isolated asec pulses in studies of nonlinear extreme ultraviolet (XUV) processes and XUV-pump–XUV-probe experiments with asec resolutions.
P. Tzallas et al., Phys. Rev. A 82, 061401(R) (2010)
Scientific Staff
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- PERSONAL INFORMATION
Family Name, First Name : Tzallas Paraskevas
Researcher unique identifier: Paraskevas Tzallas on Google Scholar
Date of birth : Grevena-Greece, Feb. 4, 1974.
Nationality: Hellenic
Office address : Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas, Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (FORTH-IESL), N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton, 70013, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Tel.: +30-81-391127, Fax: +30-81-391305, e-mail: ptzallas@iesl.forth.gr
- CURRENT POSITION (S)
2017-now: Research Director (Researcher A')
2014-now: Senior Research fellow and Scientific Advisor at Extreme Light Infrastructure-Attosecond Light Pulse Source (ELI-ALPS), Szeged, Hungary
- PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2002-2004: Post-Doc in MAX-PlANCK-INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK in Garching (Germany)
2004-2017: Researcher D', Researcher C' and Principal Researcher (Researcher B') at FORTH-IESL
2018-2020: Board member of the scientific council of FORTH-IESL
- EDUCATION: I) 1992 (Oct.)-1996(July): Diploma degree in Physics, Univ. of Ioannina-Greece; 1996 (Oct.)-2002 (Jan.) II) PhD student in AMO Phys. lab. of Department of Phys. of Univ. of Ioannina in close collaboration with Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (UK).
- CAREER BREAKS (2004): 6 Months military obligation in the Greek Armed Forces. I was acknowledged by the Greek Ministry of National Defence as a Distinguished Scientist of Abroad.
- RESEARCH INTERESTS: Atomic, Molecular and Optical physics (AMO); Attosecond science and strong laser field physics; Quantum Optics in Strong laser field physics
- RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS
- First direct observation of attosecond light bursts emitted from gas and sold state media (Nature (2003); Nature Phys. (2009); APL Photonics (2019)).
- First observation of atomic direct double ionization by harmonic superposition (PRA (2006)).
- Generation of intense continuum XUV radiation by multi-cycle laser fields (Nature Phys. (2007)).
- XUV pump-XUV probe studies of 1-fs electron dynamics (PRL (2010); Nature Phys.(2011); PRA (2014))
- Time gated ion microscopy in the XUV spectral range (PRA (2014); Sci. Rep. (2016); J. Opt. (2018)).
- Generation of coherent XUV pulses with the highest ever photon flux (PRA (2018), Sci. Rep. (2020)).
- Linking quantum optics and quantum technologies with strong-laser-field physics: Generation of optical Schrodinger cat states in intense laser-matter interactions (Nature Com.(2017); PRL (2019); Nature Phys. (2021); PRL (2022); PRA (2022)).
- PUBLICATIONS IN INTERNATIONAL REFEREED JOURNALS: 82 published papers, including 1 Nature, 4 Nature Phys., 1 Nature Comm., 7 Phys. Rev. Lett., 1 Physics Reports, 12 Phys. Rev. A, 3 Optica, 1 Opt. Lett., 5 Sci. Rep., 5 New J. Phys., 6 J. Phys. B, 2 Optics Express, 2 Appl. Phys. B, 2 Chem. Phys. Lett., 2 J. Phys. Chem. A e.t.c., 5 chapters in books, and 5 Invited review/perspective articles in international scientific journals with ≈ 3330 citations, h-factor = 32 (database: Google Scholar).
- TALKS IN CONFERENCES/UNIVERSITIES/INSTITUTES: 2 keynote, 41 invited and 15 oral
- REFEREE IN INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS: 1) Nature Photon. 2) Nature Phys. 3) Nature Commun. 4) Phys. Rev. Lett. 5) Phys. Rev. A 6) Optics Letters 6) Sci. Rep. 7) New Journal of Physics 8) Optics Express 9) Journal of Physics B 10) Journal of Quantum Electronics 11) Applied Physics B.
- PROPOSAL REVIEWER: for the Austrian Science Fund funds (FWF), German Research Foundation (DFG), Israeli Higher Education Committee/ Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC), and European Research Council, ERC Advanced Grant.
- SUPERVISION OF GRDUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS: 4 PostDocs; 6 PhD students; 8 Master Students and 4 Diploma students.
- PRESENT COLLABORATIONS: 1) Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optic (MPQ), Garching, Germany. 2) Institute of Carnot de Bourgogne, Dijon, France. 3) Imperial College, London, UK. 5) Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland. 4) University Autonoma of Madrid, Madrid, Spain. 5) ICFO, Barcelona. 6) ELI-ALPS Hungary.
Education
- 1970-1975 : Physics Dept., University of Athens/ degree of Physics, Athens / Greece
- 1976-1980 : Physics Dept., University of Freiburg/ Diplom, Freiburg i.Br./FRG
- 1983-1987 : Ph. D. Physics (Dok. Rer. Nat.), University of Freiburg, Freiburg i.Br. / FRG
Career
- 1987-1992 Researcher, FORTH-IESL, Heraklio, Greece and teaching staff at the Univ. of Crete
- 1992-1996 Assist. Prof., Physics Dept. Univ. of Crete and affiliated Univ. Prof. of FORTH-IESL
- 1996-2003: Assoc. Prof., Physics Dept. Univ. of Crete and affiliated Univ. Prof. of FORTH-IESL
- 2003-2020: Full Prof., Physics Dept. Univ. of Crete, affiliated Univ. Prof. of FORTH-IESL
- 2020-today: Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Crete and affiliated faculty member of FORTH-IESL (till 06/2024) /FORTH-IA (since 06/2024) and Chief Scientific Advisor of ELI-ALPS
Awards/Prizes/Distinctions
- FORTH-Price for Basic Research 2000
- CAS-LMU Fellowship 2013
Other
- Member of the ERC Starting Grants Panel PE2 - Fundamental constituents of matter
- Member of the HFRI (ELIDEK) post-doc proposals evaluation panel for Physical Sciences
- Member of the Atomic and Molecular Physics Division (AMPD) of the EPS.
- Board of Editors of the European Physical Journal D
- Chief Scientific Advisor of the European Research Infrastructure (ERI) ELI-ALPS
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the ERI ELI-ALPS
- National delegate of the Steering Committee of the European -XFEL
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European -XFEL
- National delegate of the Analytical Research Infrastructure of ESFRI
- Head of the attosecond S&T laboratory of FORTH-IESL
- Director of the postgraduate program on Micro- and Opto-electronics, Physics Dept., Univ. of Crete.
- Chair of the Sectorial Scientific Council (TES) for Physical Sciences
- Member of the HFRI (ELIDEK) Advisory Committee
Research Group Overview: Mission, research focus, main scientific directions
In this direction the research mainly focuses on the generation, characterization and applications of intense coherent extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation emitted in the form of pulses of duration less than 1fs (attosecond pulses) [Nature 426, 267 (2003); Nature Phys. 3, 846 (2007); Nature Phys. 7, 781 (2011); APL Photonics 4, 080901 (2019); Photonics, 4, 26, (2017)]. It targets the development, upgrades and running of a state of the art, table top, attosecond facility dedicated to the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in all states of matter, as well as of non-linear and strong field phenomena induced solely by the XUV radiation. Other activities include, the generation of high photon flux circularly polarized XUV pulses for investigating ultrafast chiral phenomena in the XUV spectral region, the development of high spatial resolution ion imaging techniques for single-shot high resolution time delay spectroscopy in the XUV, electron-ion coincidence studies in strong field laser-atom interactions, adaptive quantum control through feedback optimized pulse shaping and the development of quantitative methods in strong field interactions.
Research Topics
Direction #A: Attosecond Science
Specifically, the research mainly focuses on the generation, characterization and applications of intense coherent extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation emitted in the form of pulses of duration less than 1fs (attosecond pulses). It targets the development, upgrades and running of a state of the art, table top, attosecond facility dedicated to the investigation of ultrafast dynamics in all states of matter, as well as of non-linear and strong field phenomena induced solely by the EUV radiation. Other activities include electron-ion coincidence studies in strong field laser-atom interactions, adaptive quantum control through feedback optimized pulse shaping and the development of quantitative methods in strong field interactions.
Contributions to the above research topic encompass (chronologically listed):
I) the development of a large number of novel devices and techniques such as 1) the dispersionless Michelson interferometer for the characterization of attosecond pulse, (Appl. Phys. B 74, 197 (2002); Opt. Lett. 27, 1561 (2002)), 2) the dispersionless non-linear XUV autocorrelator (Nature 426, 267 (2003)), 3) phase control techniques for he characterization of attosecond pulses (Phys. Rev. A 64, 1, 051801 (R) (2001); Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 163901 (2006); New J. Phys. 9, 232, (2007)), 4) an inteferometric polarization gating device for the generation of intense isolated attosecond pulses by multi-cycle high power laser pulses (Nature Phys. 3, 846 (2007)), 5) a carrier-envelope-phase (CEP) meter for multi-cycle laser pulses (Phys. Rev. A 82, 061401 (2010)), and the use of an Ion Microscope detector for quantitative studies in the linear and non-linear XUV regime (Phys. Rev. A 90, 013822 (2014); Sci. Rep. 6, 21556 (2016)).
II) highlights such as 1) the first indication of experimental attosecond localization (Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 4289 (1999)), 2) the first electron-ion coincidence measurements in the strong field interaction region (Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2268 (2000)), 3) the first two XUV-photon ionization be a comp of higher harmonics Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 133902 (2003), 4) adaptive quantum control of vibrational ionization branching ratios through feedback - optimized fs pulse shaping (J. Chem. Phys. 118, 595 (2003)), 5) the direct observation of attosecond light bursts emitted from gas and solid state media (Nature 426, 267 (2003); Nature Phys. 5, 124 (2009)), 6) the generation of intense coherent continuum XUV radiation generated by multi-cycle high-power laser fields (Nature Phys. 3, 846 (2007)), 7) the observation of atomic direct double ionization by a harmonic superposition (Phys. Rev. A 74, 051402(R) (2006)), 8) the tracking of the autoionizing-wavepacket dynamics and molecular dynamics at 1-fs temporal scale (Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 043902 (2010); Nature Phys. 7, 781 (2011); Phys. Rev. A 89, 023420 (2014)), 9) the measurement of the electron quantum path details of the recollision process (Phys. Rev. A 90, 013822 (2014)) and the quantitative measurement of the single- and the two-XUV-photon ionization cross-section of Helium in the 20eV photon energy range (Sci. Rep. 6, 21556 (2016)).
The latest technological advancement towards a table top high XUV-photon-flux attosecond pulse source is the newly constructed ≈ 18 m long 20 GWatt XUV (HHG) beam line [9]. The beam line provides the highest ever XUV pulse energy (≈ 230 µJ per pulse) in the spectral region 20-30eV. The corresponding photon flux of 0.6 ´ 10^14 photons/pulse is competitive to FEL photon fluxes in this spectral region. Using these pulses a focused intensity of ~7 ´ 10^15 W/cm2 has been achieved (a value that by using high reflectivity XUV optics can be increased to 10^17 W/cm2) and multiply charged Argon atoms (Ar^4+) have been produced by multi-XUV-photon ionization processes (Phys. Rev. A 98, 023426 (2018)).
The long-standing scientific quest of real-time tracing electronic motion and dynamics in all states of matter has been remarkably benefited by the development of intense pulsed laser sources with a temporal resolution in the attosecond (1 attosecond (asec) = 10^-18 sec) time scale. In the last 15 years we have systematically developed the means for the generation of high photon flux extreme ultraviolet (XUV) pulses with 1fs to sub-fs pulse duration, making use of the process of higher order harmonic generation (HOHG). Utilizing multi-cycle laser pulses delivered by high peak Ti:S laser systems, in combination with Polarization Gating techniques [1], XUV pulse intensities up to 10^14 W/cm2 have been reached in the spectral region 10-24 eV. These pulses have been exploited in I) the temporal characterization of attosecond pulses [2-4]; II) the first proof of principle XUV-pump-XUV-probe experiments for the study of 1fs scale electron dynamics in atoms/molecules [5, 6], and III) quantitative studies of linear and non-linear ionization processes in XUV regime [7,8].
The latest technological advance towards an XUV high photon flux attosecond pulsed source is the newly constructed ≈ 18 m long (HHG) 20 GWatt XUV beam line [9]. The beam line beam line provides the highest ever XUV pulse energy (≈ 230 µJ per pulse) in the spectral region 20-30eV. The corresponding photon flux of 0.6 X 10^14 photons/pulse is competitive with FEL photon fluxes in this spectral region. Using these pulses a focused intensity of ~7 X 10^15 W/cm^2 has been achieved (a value that by using high reflectivity XUV optics can be increased to 10^17 W/cm^2) and multiply charged Argon atoms (Ar^4+) have been produced by multi-XUV-photon ionization processes.
[1] P. Tzallas et al. Nature Physics 3, 846 (2007)
[2] P. Tzallas et al. Nature 426, 267 (2003)
[3] L. A. A. Nikolopoulos Phys. Rev. Lett.. 94, 113905 (2005)
[4] Y. Nomura et al. Nature Physics 5, 124 - 128 (2009)
[5] P. Tzallas et al. Nature Physics 7, 781 (2011)
[6] P. A. Carpeggiani, et al. Phys. Rev. A 89, 023420 (2014)
[7] N. Tsatrafyllis, et al., Sci. Rep. 6(1), 21556 (2016).
[8] P. Tzallas, et al., J. Opt. 20(2), 024018 (2018).
[9] A. Nayak et al., Phys. Rev. A 98, 023426 (2018)
Coherent broadband XUV radiation has been extensively used over the last decades for tracing ultrafast dynamics and performing time delay spectroscopic studies of systems of the microcosm. The majority of these studies were performed using XUV-XUV or XUV-IR pump-probe schemes involving interferometers (or wave front beam splitters) for introducing a delay between the pump and the probe pulses. However, these schemes suffer from the intrinsic limitations that accompany any pump-probe arrangement. In a pump-probe experiment the evolution of the system is obtained by multiple measurements at different time delays introduced between the pump-probe pulses during which all the experimental parameters must remain constant. Additionally, a pump-probe measurement with asec resolution suffers from spectroscopic limitations due to difficulties on maintaining the experimental parameters constant for long data acquisition times and long delays between the pump-probe pulses.
The aim of the research is to overcome these obstacles and develop an approach which provides "high" temporal (sub-fs) and spectral resolution (meV) in a single-shot measurement. This will be achieved by means of time gated ion microscopy approach [1] where an Ion Microscope with spatial resolution in the range of ≈ 1 μm will be used to record the ion distribution produced a 2-XUV-photon ionization process at the focus of two counter propagated XUV pulses. Towards this direction we will use the 20-Gwatt XUV beam line that we have recently developed at FORTH.
[1] P. Tzallas, et al., J. Opt. 20, 024018 (2018).
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A double-stage operation Ti:S laser system of FORTH-IESL delivering I) 10Hz rep. rate, IR laser pulses of 20 fs duration and energy up to 350mJ/pulse and II) at 1kHz rep. rate, IR laser pulses of 35 fs duration and energy up to 3mJ/pulse
A newly constructed ≈ 18 m long 20-GWatt coherent XUV (HHG) beam line [Phys. Rev. A 98, 023426 (2018); Sci. Reports 10, 3759 (2020)] driven by the high power Ti:S laser system. The beam line provides asec/fs XUV pulses with the highest ever pulse energy (≈ 230 µJ per pulse) corresponding photon flux of 6 x 10^13 photons/pulse in the spectral region 17-33eV.
A 10 m long 100 MWatt coherent XUV beam line [Nature Phys. 7, 781 (2011)] driven by the high power Ti:S laser system. The beam line provides asec/fs XUV pulses with energy up to 1 μJ/pulse with corresponding flux 2x10^11 photons/pulse in the spectral range of 17-33 eV.
Soft Matter Science is a highly interdisciplinary field comprising fundamental Physics, challenging Chemistry and a wide range of applications related with Materials and Chemical Engineering as well as Biology and Bioengineering.
The research groups of IESL’s Soft Matter Division have established FORTH’s position as an international pillar in soft matter research, by working at the forefront of these topics, utilizing a variety of experimental and synthetic techniques and collaborating with world class academic and industrial partners around the globe.
