讲座题目：---“Laser materials for high intensity laser chains”

讲座人：Pr. Dr. Richard Moncorgé

讲座时间：10月24日上午10点

地点：行政C610

Abstract：After a brief description of the applications of ultra-intense solid-state lasers and of the main laser chains which are being developed for these applications, a description will be made of the advantages and the drawbacks of the different laser materials and systems which are presently being used.  A special attention will be addressed to the genesis, the specificity, the already obtained performance and the on-going development of the Yb:CaF2 laser crystal.

CV:

Pr. Dr. Richard Moncorgé received the Doctorat degree in Atomic and Molecular Physics from the University of Lyon in 1976 and the Doctorates Sciences Physiques degree in 1982. He was with the Centre National de la RechercheScientifique (CNRS) as a researcher with the Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des MatériauxLuminescents, University of Lyon, from 1976 to 1997.

Between 1976 and 1977, he was granted a stipend from the French Academy of Sciences to work on optical energy transfers in solids as a Post-Doctoral Scientist with the Department of Physics, Boston College, and with the University of California, Los Angeles. Between 1982 and 1983, he was in charge of a research program on new solid-state laser materials at the Centre National des Télécommunications (CNET), Paris, France. Since then, he has been conducting researches in this field, especially on the fluorescence dynamics, excited state spectroscopy, crystal growth and laser operation of crystals doped with transition-metal and rare-earth ions.

He was Directeur de Recherche (CNRS) between 1993 and 1997 and he is now a Professor of “classeexceptionnelle” at the University of Caen, leading researches in the group “Materials and Laser Instrumentation” (MIL) of the Centre de Recherchesur les Ions, les Matériaux et la Photonique) (CIMAP) which is a “UnitéMixte de Recherche” CNRS-CEA-ENSICaen and University of Caen Basse-Normandie (UCBN).

He was the principal coordinator of the CNRS national network CMDO+ for “Cristaux Massifs, Micro-nano-structures et Dispositifs pour l’Optique”, a Topical Editor of the J. Opt. Soc. Am. Bfor the Luminescent Compounds and Processes and the Laser Materials, and he is now an Editorial Advisor of the French Scientific & Technical review “Techniques pour l’Ingénieur” more particularly in charge of the Optical Materials in general.

He is the author or the co-author of several book chapters, including one full lecture book of nearly 1000 pages on “Atomic and Molecular Physics, and the author or the co-author of more than 300 scientific publications in peer-reviewed journals.