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Zhengming Sheng


Title: Professor

Email: zmsheng@sjtu.edu.cn
Phone: 021-34204629
Address: Laboratory for Laser Plasmas Building
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Area of Physics: High energy density physics, Laser plasma physics

 

Research Interests:

1. Relativistic laser-plasma interactions and their applications in advanced particle accelerators and radiation production (from terahertz to gamma-rays)
2. Laser-driven high energy density physics and laboratory astrophysics
3. Physics of wave-particle interactions related to inertial confined fusion
4. Kinetic simulation methods such as particle-in-cell simulation, Fokker-Planck simulation
 

Biographical Sketch:

Received Ph.D. in Optics in 1993 from Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He was then a postdoc researcher an Alexander-von-Humboldt fellow in the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany and later a JSPS research fellow and research associate in Institute of Laser Engineerig,Osaka University, Japan. He joined the Institute of Physics, CAS, in Beijing in 2001. He has been a distinguished professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University since 2007. He published over 300 papers in peer-reviewed journals (including 39 in PRL, PNAS, Nat. Comm.) with ~6000 citations and H-index 40. He is a fellow of American Physical Society.

 

Selected Publications: 

  1. A. Pukhov, Z. M. Sheng, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Particle acceleration in relativistic laser channels”, Phys. Plasmas 6, 2847-2854 (1999).
  2. Z.-M. Sheng, Y. Sentoku, K. Mima, J. Zhang, W. Yu, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Angular distributions of fast electrons, ions, and bremsstrahlung x/gamma-rays in intense laser interaction with solid targets”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 5340 (2000).
  3. Z.-M. Sheng, K. Mima, Y. Sentoku, M. S. Jovanovic, T. Taguchi, J. Zhang, and J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, “Stochastic heating and acceleration of electrons in colliding laser fields in plasmas”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 055004 (2002).
  4. Z. -M. Sheng, K. Mima, Y. Sentoku, K. Nishihara, and J. Zhang, “Generation of high-amplitude plasma wave for particle acceleration by cross-modulated laser wake-field”, Phys. Plasmas 9, 3147 (2002).
  5. Z.-M. Sheng, J. Zhang, and D. Umstadter, “Plasma density gratings induced by intersecting laser pulses in underdense plasmas”, Appl. Phys. B77, 673 (2003).
  6. Z.-M. Sheng, K. Mima, J. Zhang, and H. Sanuki, “Emission of electromagnetic pulses from laser wakefields through linear mode conversion”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 095003 (2005).
  7. M. Chen, Z.-M. Sheng, Y.-Y. Ma, and J. Zhang, “Electron injection and trapping in a laser wakefield by field ionization to high-charge states of gases”, J. Appl. Phys. 99, 056109 (2006).
  8. S. M. Weng, Z. M. Sheng, M. Q. He, J. Zhang, P. A. Norreys, M. Sherlock, and A. P. L. Robinson, “Plasma currents and electron distribution functions under a DC electric field of arbitrary strength”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 185001 (2008).
  9. X. Q. Yan, C. Lin, Z. M. Sheng, Z.Y. Guo, B.C.Liu, Y.R. Lu, J.X. Fang, J.E. Chen, “High current and monoenergetic proton beams generated by a circularly-polarized laser pulse in the phase-stable acceleration (PSA) regime”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 135003 (2008).
  10. F. Y. Li, Z. M. Sheng, Y. Liu, J. Meyer-ter-Vehn, W. B. Mori, W. Lu, and J. Zhang, “Dense attosecond electron sheets from laser wakefields using an up-ramp density transition”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 135002 (2013).