Current Research

SELIM research relates to problems in which light-matter interactions are probed, controlled, exploited, or modeled. Some current representative research includes:

Studies of ultrafast nuclear and electronic dynamics and energy flow in all states of matter.
Coherence in quantum wavepackets, quantum entaglement, quantum information.
High field laser-matter interactions.
Laser processing/deposition of materials, non-linear optics of chiral polymers.
Ultrafast MALDI: improving protein mass spectrometry.
FEL development and coupling to other optical systems (e.g. table-top lasers, OPO's, synchrotron, etc.).

A Powerpoint presentation briefly describing some SELIM faculty and graduate student research can be downloaded here (13 Mb). See links to faculty home pages under People for more specific research information. A list of poster titles recently presented by SELIM Graduate Fellows and Associates is available at SELIM Poster Session/Open House, an event that was held on Sept. 30, 2002.

Current Research

Studies of ultrafast nuclear and electronic dynamics and energy flow in all states of matter.

Coherence in quantum wavepackets, quantum entaglement, quantum information.

High field laser-matter interactions.

Laser processing/deposition of materials, non-linear optics of chiral polymers.

Ultrafast MALDI: improving protein mass spectrometry.

FEL development and coupling to other optical systems (e.g. table-top lasers, OPO's, synchrotron, etc.).