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Organization: Department of Politecnico Milano

Location: Milan, Italy

Field: Physics

Abstract:

A three years PhD position is currently available at the Physics Department of Politecnico Milano in the field of attosecond physics. The attosecond group has already demonstrated the generation of isolated attosecond pulses and is one of the leading groups in the application of sub-fs pulses to time-resolved investigations in atoms and molecules

Description:

A three years PhD position is currently available at the Physics Department of Politecnico Milano in the field of attosecond physics. The attosecond group has already demonstrated the generation of isolated attosecond pulses and is one  of the leading groups in the application of sub-fs pulses to time-resolved investigations in atoms and molecules. The PhD candidate will work on the development of a new XUV beamline that will combine the generation of trains and isolated attosecond pulses for the complete characterization of the momentum distributions of electrons and ions by means of coincidence measurements (Reaction Microscope). The experiments will be mainly focused on the response of molecular systems (H2/D2, N2, O2) van der Waals or hydrogen bonded clusters on the few femtoseconds and attosecond timescale.

The PhD candidate will be exposed to a highly interdisciplinary research fields including:
1) generation of ultrashort laser pulses in the visible range
2) generation of trains and isolated attosecond pulses in the XUV region
3) characterization of molecular reactions by coincidence measurements of charged fragments

Successful candidates will ideally be willing to learn:
1) carrier envelope phase stabilization of laser systems
2) high harmonic generation
3) charged particle detection techniques
4) vacuum technology.

Interested candidates are invited to contact via e-mail Dr. Giuseppe Sansone (giuseppe.sansone at polimi.it ) including a short CV

Deadline: 29-04-2011

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