As a visiting scientist I spent five years total at the National Research Council of Canada, three years at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik in Germany, one year at the CELIA laser institute in Bordeaux, five weeks at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory...
As a visiting scientist I spent five years total at the National Research Council of Canada, three years at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Quantenoptik in Germany, one year at the CELIA laser institute in Bordeaux, five weeks at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and three weeks at the Institute for Laser Engineering at Osaka University in Japan. During those periods I worked with a number of laser systems including high power nanosecond carbon-dioxide, iodine and glass lasers, picosecond glass and krypton fluoride lasers, and femtosecond titanium sapphire and glass laser systems. Recently, I started a new collaboration with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on experiments related to Fast Ignition and Fusion Energy. With these systems I’ve studied a number of high temperature plasma phenomena including x-ray generation and hydrodynamics of laser produced plasmas