YAMANOUCHI Kaoru

Project Professor, Director, Institute for Attosecond Laser Facility

Institute for Attosecond Laser Facility, Department of Chemistry (UG), Department of Chemistry (GR), Graduate School of Science

Current Research

In order to investigate ultrafast processes of molecules in an intense laser field, we have been developing experimental methods such as ultrashort-pulsed electron diffraction, coincidence momentum imaging, tandem-type time-of-flight mass spectrometry, laser-assisted electron scattering/diffraction, and trapped-ion electron diffraction and theoretical methods such as a quasi-stationary Floquet method and an extended multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree-Fock method. We have also developed strong-field ultrahigh-resolution Fourier transform spectroscopy as an extension of pump-probe measurements using ultrashort laser pulses and sub-micron processing of solid surfaces by sub-micron focusing of high-order harmonics pulses in the extreme ultraviolet wavelength region. Furthermore, while conducting experimental and theoretical studies of air lasing processes, we perform quantum computing of fundamental processes in atomic, molecular, and optical sciences using quantum computers.

Keywords

Intense laser field, Laser-assisted electron scattering, Ultrahigh-resolution spectroscopy, Quantum computing