Björn Manuel Hegelich
Professor
University of Texas
USA
Biography
Prof. Manuel Hegelich, an experimental laser physicist, very successfully joint with his group the exploration of the laser interaction with ultra-thin foils (produced at MAP). We are observing very dense laser-induced ion beams, the breakout of dense electron bunches and the production of high harmonics at different lasers, exploring this new coherent physics. The ultrashort dense secondary beams promise to have new properties in nonlinear interactions.
Research Interest
Interaction of ultra-intense electromagnetic fields with matter; high-energy density physics; laser-particle acceleration