Ivan P. Christov

Professor, D.Sc., Ph.D.

Sofia University
Physics Department
5 James Bourchier Str
1164 Sofia, Bulgaria

Tel: ( +3592) 8161 741

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Research interests and key publications:

Dr. Christov's research has been directed to development of advanced methods for generation and amplification of ultrashort coherent pulses

in the visible and x-ray spectral domains. He and his collaborators proposed how linearly polarized femtosecond IR pulses can be used to

generate isolated attosecond x-ray pulses by atoms and free relativistic electrons, and how to amplify these pulses by strong-field quasi-phase

matching in modulated waveguides. He currently is working on theoretical models to better understand light-matter interaction in attosecond

time scale that include development of new time-dependent quantum Monte Carlo methods.

generation of isolated attosecond pulses by relativistic acceleration of free electrons, Opt. Commun. 148, (1998) pp. 75-78
generation of isolated attosecond pulses by few cycle laser pulses, Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, (1997) pp. 1251-1263
amplification of isolated attosecond pulses by quasi-phase matching techniques, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18, (2001) pp. 1877-1881
coherent control in the strong-field regime, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, (2001) pp. 5458-5461
ab initio correlated attosecond electron dynamics, time-dependent quantum Monte Carlo, J. Chem. Phys. 128, (2008) 244106