Milchberg, Howard
Distinguished University Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Physics
Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics
Physics
Institute for Research in Electronics & Applied Physics
A.V. Williams Building, Rm. 1415
EDUCATION
B.Eng. (1979, Engineering Physics), McMaster Univ.; Ph.D. (1985, Astrophysical Sciences), Princeton Univ.; AT&T Bell Laboratories (1985-87); Assistant Prof.(1988-1993), Assoc. Prof. (1993-95), Professor (1995-present) Univ. of Maryland.
HONORS AND AWARDS
- University of Maryland Distinguished University Professor (2024)
- APS Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (2024)
- OSA Fellow (2012)
- American Physical Society (APS) John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics (2005)
- Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Award, University of Maryland (2005-2006)
- Supervisor of American Physical Society Division of Plasma Physics Dissertation Award Winner (1999, 2004, 2012)
- American Physical Society Fellow (1995)
- NSF Presidential Young Investigator (1988)
- NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship, National Research Council of Canada (1979-84).
Nonlinear optics, laser and optical physics, interaction of intense electromagnetic fields with atoms, solids, and plasmas; generation and application of coherent and incoherent short wavelength radiation.
- Plasma hydrodynamics of the intense laser-cluster interaction
H.M. Milchberg, S.J. McNaught, and E. Parra, Phys. Rev. E 64, 056402 (2001). - A pump-probe investigation of laser-droplet plasma dynamics
S. J. McNaught, J. Fan, E. Parra, and H. M. Milchberg, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 4100 (2001). - Characterization of a cryogenic, high-pressure gas jet operated in the droplet regime
E. Parra, S.J. McNaught, and H.M. Milchberg, Rev. Sci. Inst. 73, 468 (2002). - Characterization of a cryogenic, high-pressure gas jet operated in the droplet regime
E. Parra, S.J. McNaught, and H.M. Milchberg, Rev. Sci. Inst. 73, 468 (2002). - Resonant self-trapping of high intensity Bessel beams in under-dense plasmas
J. Fan, E. Parra, K. Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, H. M. Milchberg, J. Cooley and T.M. Antonsen, Phys. Rev. E 65, 056408 (2002). - Measurement of the superluminal group velocity of an ultrashort Bessel beam pulse
I.Alexeev, K.Y. Kim, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 073901 (2002). - Single-shot supercontinuum spectral interferometry
K.Y Kim, I. Alexeev, and H. M. Milchberg, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 4124 (2002). - Single-shot measurement of laser-induced double step ionization of helium
K.Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, and H.M. Milchberg, Optics Express 10, 1563 (2002). - Hydrodynamic timescales for intense laser-heated clusters
E. Parra, I. Alexeev, J. Fan, K. Y. Kim, S. J. McNaught, and H.M. Milchberg, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20, 118 (2003). - Time-resolved explosion of intense laser-heated clusters
K.Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, E. Parra, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 023401 (2003). - Self-focusing of intense laser pulses in a clustered gas
I.Alexeev, T. M. Antonsen, K.Y. Kim, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev Lett. 90, 103402 (2003). - Measurement of the average size and density of clusters in a gas jet
K. Y. Kim, V. Kumarappan, and H. M. Milchberg, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 3210 (2003). - Gases of exploding laser-heated cluster nanoplasmas as a nonlinear optical medium
K.Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, V. Kumarappan, E. Parra, T. Antonsen, T. Taguchi, A. Gupta, and H.M. Milchberg., Phys. of Plasmas 11, 2882 (2004). - Resonant heating of a cluster plasma by intense laser light
T. Taguchi, T.M. Antonsen, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 205003 (2004). - Spectral redshifts in the intense laser-cluster interaction
K.Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, T.M. Antonsen, A. Gupta, V. Kumarappan, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev. A 71, R011201 (2005).