"Ultrashort laser interactions with micro/nanostructures" by Anton Rudenko

Seminar by Anton Rudenko, Laboratoire Hubert Curien

Abstract

A brief overview of the projects I've contributed to during the last few years of my research career will be given. Starting with laser interactions with microdroplets in ambient air for efficient fog clearing/optical communications and tight focusing-driven microexplosions in transparent solids for optical data storage, we will further uncover a variety of semi-classical models to describe nonlinear ultrafast response of individual nanostructures and how this response can be further modulated, enhanced and optimized in metasurfaces, in order to design compact XUV laser sources. Future perspectives of applying ultrashort lasers for fabricating and adjusting metasurfaces to tune their optical and thermo-mechanical responses will be finally outlined.

This seminar will be held in english