Regents' Professor
Physics and Astronomy & Electrical Engineering

Fellow of the Optical Society of America

Ph.D. University of Jena, 1985

office: (505) 277-2081
fax: (505) 277-1520
email: wrudolph@unm.edu

adress: 800 Yale Blvd. NE
Albuquerque, NM 87131
USA
Research
  • ultrafast lasers and spectroscopy
  • microscopy with femtosecond light
    pulses in material science and biomedicine
  • lasers in the mid infrared for remote sensing and imaging through the atmosphere
Recent Publications:

J.-C. Diels and W. Rudolph: Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena: Fundamentals, Techniques, and Applications on a Femtosecond Time Scale, Academic Press, 2nd edition, Elsevier 2006

M. Mero and W. Rudolph: Ultrafast processes in highly excited wide-gap dielectric thin films, , in Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy (Ed. P. Hannaford), Springer 2005

M. Mero et al..: Scaling laws of femtosecond laser pulse induced breakdown in oxide films, Phys. Rev. B71 (2005) 115109

J. Zeller et al.: Anomalous nonlinear photoresponse in a InGaN/GaN heterostructure, J. Appl. Phys. 95 (2004) 6152

X. Liu et al..: Femtosecond ballistic electron transport in Au films, Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005) 195431

C. Kletecka et al.: Cascade lasing of molecular HBr in the Four Micron Region Pumped by a Nd;YAG Laser, IEEE J. Quant.Electron. 40 (2004) 1471
Two-photon current image of a biased ZnSe photodetector taken with a femtosecond scanning microscope.
Group members

Dr. Neil Cambpell, CPhygen@aol.com
Dr. Vasu Nampoothiri, avvn@unm.edu
Dr. Luke Emmert, lemming@unm.edu
Dr. Igor Cravetchi, igorc@unm.edu
Amarin Ratanavis, amarin@unm.edu
Xuejun Liu, xuejunl@hotmail.com
Christian Wolpert, cwolpert@unm.edu
Philipp Eitelwein, ppeitelw@unm.edu
Martin Schormayer, mnschorm@unm.edu
Ben Pulford, ben.pulford@gmail.com
Duy Nguyen, nguyen@unm.edu@unm.edu
Albuquerque and the Sandia Mountains.
Recent students and postdocs

Dr. Michael Kempe (Carl Zeiss Jena)
Dr. Jack Glassman (Univ of Southern Illinois)
Dr. Joshua Bienfang (NIST, Gaithersburg)
Dr. Jayesh Jasapara (Bell Labs)
Dr. Russ Teehan (Air Force Academy)
Dr. Jeff Nicholson (Bell Labs)
Dr. Joachim Zeller (Uni Kaiserslautern)
Dr. Mark Mero (Max-Born Institute)
Chris Kletecka (ITT Industries)
Dr. Petr Straka (Czech Academy of Science)
Prof. Juanlin Liu (Fudan Univ, Shanghai)
Prof. Marcus Magnor (Uni Braunschweig)
May 2003: Joachim Zeller (left) won the Dissertation Prize of the Physics Department. Josh Bienfang (right) won the Popejoy Prize (University Prize) for his thesis. Mark Mero won the department's dissertation prize in 2006.