Project Grant DESC0024331

This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) provides $529,482 to the University of Rochester to develop the theory and simulation of the emergent properties of matter when driven or "dressed" by lasers. The project aims to: (a) Develop a Floquet theory and simulation scheme to model the optical absorption properties of realistic laser-dressed solids, in order to make experimentally testable predictions...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), totaling $300,000, will support theoretical research to develop short-pulsed ultraviolet laser sources. Funded through NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award will promote progress in the generation and characterization of ultraviolet laser pulses. Specifically, the awardee will conduct numerical simulations of high harmonic generation in a gas jet experiment to analyze the impact of...

This $850,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Colorado Boulder to advance understanding of particle acceleration in plasmas driven by lasers. Specifically, the three-year award will fund simulation and experimental studies of optical field ionization-generated plasma channels for particle acceleration using laser wakefield acceleration. Researchers will conduct accurate simulations of plasma channel formation, characterize generated...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will fund the University of Maryland, College Park to upgrade its existing 100 terawatt laser system to increase output pulse energy by a factor of four. Totaling $155,249, the award under the NSF Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) will support relativistic physics experiments in plasma, nonlinear optics, and laboratory astrophysics through July 2025. Specifically, the upgraded laser will enable tabletop...

The University of Nebraska was awarded a $480,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Physics under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049). The three-year award will support research titled "HIGH FIDELITY FLUID-KINETIC HYBRID MODELING OF INTENSE, SHORT PULSE LASER PLASMA INTERACTIONS" from August 2021 through July 2024. The university will conduct research to advance understanding of major problems in plasma physics through developing...

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) totaling $150,000 aims to advance understanding of strong-field and ultrafast processes in atomic systems through theoretical and computational modeling. Funded under the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the award supports research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to describe interactions between intense coherent radiation and large quantum systems. Specific investigations include...

This $450,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics supports an effort to develop a comprehensive database of plasma photoionization processes with practical applications in fields such as combustion and high-speed aerodynamics. The "ECLIPSE: EXPLORING PHYSICS OF MULTIPHOTON IONIZATION USING THOMSON COHERENT MICROWAVE SCATTERING" project will utilize a novel Thomson in-phase coherent microwave scattering (TMS) technique to precisely...

This $399,924 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program will support research to study the wavelength dependence of plasma collision dynamics and ionization mechanisms in laser-solid matter interactions. The primary awardee, The Research Foundation for the State University of New York, will experimentally and theoretically investigate how the driving laser's wavelength, intensity, and pulse duration impact...

This $450,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics will fund the development of machine learning-augmented density functional theory (DFT) tools to enable faster and more accurate quantum simulations of warm dense plasmas. Under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), the University of Rochester will receive funding from August 15, 2022 to July 31, 2025. The project aims to advance finite-temperature exchange-correlation functionals...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Physics award under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $500,000 to the University of Maryland, College Park to develop techniques for directly measuring the intensity of ultra-high power laser light. The project aims to enable real-time, minimally intrusive measurement of laser focal spot characteristics, a critical capability for advancing high-powered laser research. This includes developing methodologies...