Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory



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Emily Link

7/17/2019

Abstract

Ultra-short pulses of intense laser light have been used to discover new science since the invention of the laser in 1960. I plan to talk about what we mean when we use terms like “intense” and “ultra-short” and how intensity and pulse duration affect the science we can study with lasers.
Intense lasers can be used for a wide variety of interesting applications but require designing the right laser for the job. I hope to give you a glimpse into the physics we use to design intense lasers and show you some of the new application-enabling ideas we have been coming up with over in Advanced Photon Technologies.

Bio

Emily Link received her PhD from the Ohio State University in 2011. She was a postdoc at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory before joining the lab, where she is now an Experimental Laser Physicist for the NIF and Photon Science Directorate’s Advanced Photon Technologies Program.
Her area of expertise is in generating short bursts of laser light and her current research efforts are focused on designing lasers that are more robust and can generate more data by firing more often.