Zenghu Chang graduated from Xi’an Jiaotong University with a bachelor’s degree in 1982. He earned a master’s and a doctorate at the Xi’an Institute of Optics and Precision Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in 1985 and 1988 respectively. From 1991 to 1993, Chang visited the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory.
He joined Kansas State University as an Associate Professor in 2001 and became the Ernest & Lillian Chapin Professor in 2009. He moved to the University of Central Florida in 2010 where he was a University Trustee Chair, Pegasus and Distinguished Professor, as well as the founding director of the Institute for the Frontier of Attosecond Science and Technology.
Starting in 2024, Chang will become a Canada Excellence Research Chair at the University of Ottawa. Chang is a fellow of the American Physical Society and Optical Society of America.
Members
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Postdoc fellow
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Postdoc fellow
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Visiting PhD student
IMG_20240410_130515~2.jpgMorten Drees
PhD student
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Visiting undergraduate research student
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Visiting undergraduate research student
Collaborators
University of Central Florida
Institute for the Frontier of Attosecond Science and Technology (iFAST) | LaserNetUS
The iFAST CPA is a Cr:ZnSe-based chirped pulse amplifier that generates pulses of 2.45 µm center wavelength, 80 fs pulse duration, 6.5 mJ pulse energy at a repetition rate of 1 kHz. The seed is from an optical parametric amplifier pumped by a commercial Yb:KGW laser. Upon user’s request, the CPA output can be further compressed to below ~20 fs using hollow-core fiber. The contact person for the iFAST lasers is Prof. Yi Wu (Yi.Wu@ucf.edu).
