Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP170104257

Funded Activity Summary

Multi-colour ultrashort soft X-ray pulses. This project aims to create multi-colour, ultrashort, highly coherent, bright pulses of soft X-rays based on high-harmonic generation in a table-top multiple-section gas cell. Studying multi-electronic and non-adiabatic processes and other fundamental aspects such as multi-electronic correlations and non-Born-Oppenheimer vibronic couplings in complex molecules is a major challenge in current ultrafast photochemistry research. This project will use multiple driving pulses with different carrier frequencies to control the spectral properties and time delay of the pulses. It will use the soft X-ray source to develop an ideal platform for studying multi-electronic and non-adiabatic processes, multi-electronic correlations and non-Born-Oppenheimer vibronic couplings in complex molecules. This is expected to advance materials science, paving the way to soft X-ray technologies.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2017

End Date: 31-12-2022

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $299,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Optical Physics | Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy | Lasers and Quantum Electronics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Technology

Other Keywords

Expanding Knowledge in Technology | Expanding Knowledge in the Chemical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Lasers and Quantum Electronics | Nonlinear Optics and Spectroscopy | Optical Physics

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