Lightwave electronics is an emerging branch of science and technology whereby intense light pulses are used to manipulate the motion of electrons in the femtosecond to attosecond time scale. Here I describe the development of optical light fields in the shape of sawtooth, square, single-cycle sine and cosine that could be used to exert full control of the position and momentum of electrons in matter in the nanometer and atomic scale.
孔慶昌（Andy Kung）Prof. Andy Kung obtained his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering in 1973 from Stanford University. He joined the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory of the University of California as a staff scientist in 1975, and was a senior staff scientist at LBL when he left to become a research fellow at the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan in 1994. In 2009 he transferred to the National Tsing Hua University to become the director of the Institute of Photonics and Technologies. Dr. Kung’s research is focused on developing solid-state tunable laser systems and to explore applications with these light sources. His current research interests are in developing science and technology in the attosecond regime using nonlinear optical techniques.
Dr. Kung is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America, a life member of the Overseas Chinese Physicists Association, and a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers of the United States of America. He is a four-time recipient of the Outstanding Scholars Award of the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship in Taiwan and won an outstanding research award from the National Science Council, Taiwan, in 2012.