교원소개

교수 및 연구

Min Sup Hur허민섭

연구주제

플라즈마

연구분야Laser-plasma interaction ; Radiation Emission from Plasmas ; Plasma-based THz generation
연구실CPL

x-LAPPLAS group (링크: https://sites.google.com/view/x-lapplas/home)
Introduce
Ultra-intense light has the potential to damage traditional optics. Plasma, however, remains resilient against such damage as it is already a damaged (that is, ionized) material. Furthermore, the plasma is optically dispersive. This characteristics makes plasma an ideal medium for steering ultra-intense lights, a field known as plasma photonics. Leveraging plasma in this way can unlock groundbreaking scientific frontiers, such as recreating conditions of early universe in a laboratory, exploring nonlinear QED, and reproduction of blackhole radiation (Hawking radiation). Our research focuses on plasma-based laser amplification and compression, aimed at developing compact zettawatt-level laser systems.
Research interests include
Plasma-based pulse compression methods aimed at next-generation zettawatt lasers
Generation of THz waves and cosmic radio bursts arising from plasma phenomena
Particle acceleration resulting from laser-plasma interactions
Radiation reaction of an accelerating charge
Advancing the development of electromagnetic particle-in-cell codes and envelope codes to model these complex phenomena

S. in Physics (1996), Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
S. in Physics (1998), POSTECH, Pohang, Korea, Advisor: Prof. Jae Koo Lee
D. in Electrical Engineering (Physics Major) (2000), POSTECH, Pohang, Korea , Advisor: Prof. Jae Koo Lee
Postdoctoral research associate in the Group of Prof. Jonathan Wurtele
Department of Physics, UC Berkeley (2001 – 2004)
Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNIST (2009 – 2012)
Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, UNIST (2012 – 2013)
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, UNIST (2013 – 2020)
Professor, Department of Physics, UNIST (2021- present)

Laser pulse compression by a density gradient plasma for exawatt to zettawatt lasers,Nature Photonics (2023)
A laser-plasma accelerator driven by two-color relativistic femtosecond laser pulses,Science Advances (2019)
High-Energy, Short-Duration Bursts of Coherent Terahertz Radiation from an Embedded Plasma Dipole, Scientific Reports (2018)
Two dimensional simulations of the amplification and focusing of intense laser pulses in the kinetic regime of Raman backward amplification in plasmas, Computer Physics Communications (2009)
Electron kinetic effects on Raman backscatter in plasmas, Physical Review Letters (2004)