Vinod Kumarappan

Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Physics, 2002, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Contact Information:

Phone: 785-532-1632
e-mail: vinod@phys.ksu.edu

Research Interests:

Ultrafast processes in aligned molecules.

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Recent Publications:

"Controlling the rotation of asymmetric top molecules by the combination of a long and a short laser pulse"
Simon S. Viftrup, Vinod Kumarappan, Lotte Holmegaard, Christer Z. Bisgaard, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Maxim Artamonov, Edward Hamilton, Tamar Seideman
Phys. Rev. A 79, 023404 (2009)
"Manipulating the Torsion of Molecules by Strong Laser Pulses"
C. B. Madsen, L. B. Madsen, S. S. Viftrup, M. P. Johansson, T. B. Poulsen, L. Holmegaard, V. Kumarappan, K. A. Jørgensen, H. Stapelfeldt
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 073007 (2009)
"Aligning molecules with long or short laser pulses"
V. Kumarappan, S. S. Viftrup, L. Holmegaard, C. Z. Bisgaard, H. Stapelfeldt
Phys. Scr. 76, C63-C68 (2007)
"Control of rotational wave-packet dynamics in asymmetric top molecules"
Lotte Holmegaard, Simon S. Viftrup, Vinod Kumarappan, Christer Z. Bisgaard, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Edward Hamilton, Tamar Seideman
Phys. Rev. A 75, 051403 (2007)
"High-resolution x-ray spectromicroscopy observations of 1 MeV ions under far from relativistic laser beam channeling in N₂O clusters"
A. Y. Faenov, A. I. Magunov, T. A. Pikuz, I. Y. Skobelev, K. Y. Kim, V. Kumarappan, H. M. Milchberg
Proc. SPIE 5975, 597502 (2006)
"Role of rotational temperature in adiabatic molecular alignment"
V. Kumarappan, C. Z. Bisgaard, S. S. Viftrup, L. Holmegaard, H. Stapelfeldt
J. Chem. Phys. 125, 194309 (2006)
"Guiding of intense laser pulses in plasma waveguides produced from efficient, femtosecond end-pumped heating of clustered gases"
Kumarappan V, Kim KY, Milchberg HM
Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 205004 (2005)

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