Dear Colleagues,
Please find bellow announcement  for the opening of one-year postdoc position in Dijon.
Best Regards
O. Faucher

POST DOCTORAL RESEARCH POSITION:
ULTRAFAST PROCESSES IN LASER-CONTROLED MOLECULAR ROTORS
Femtosecond Processes & intense Lasers (PFL)
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB) - UMR 6203 CNRS, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France. 
http://icb.u-bourgogne.fr/en/

One year Postdoctoral Fellow position funded by the Burgundy Region is opened at the PFL group.

The research is related to the control of molecular rotation with ultrashort lasers. In particular, the position aims at exploring new effects related to rotational echoes [1] observed recently in short-pulse molecular alignment [2-6] and at investigating ultrafast optical processes in gas of coherently spinning molecules [3] as well.

The applicant must be an experimentalist with a solid background at least in one of the following areas: femtosecond pump-probe experiments, molecules in strong laser field, ultrafast non-linear optics. 

The applicant will have access to the LUCI laser facility operating at the ICB Laboratory. The equipment includes two amplified Ti:sapphire mode locked lasers (100 fs, 100 Hz and 1 KHz), a short-pulse (50 fs) non-collinear optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) tuneable between 230 nm and 11000 nm, pulse shaper apparatuses, devices for short pulse characterization (SPIDER and single-shot autocorrelator), supersonic free jets. A full range of vacuum, diagnostic, and detection apparatus are also available.


Good knowledge of spoken and written English or/and French is mandatory.

The net annual salary will be about 1900 € per month (social insurance contribution included). 


Applicants should address by e-mail to Prof. O. Faucher ([log in to unmask]) a Curriculum Vitae, a list of publications, and the name of two referees (with e-mail and affiliation). The starting of the contract must take place before the 31/12/16.

References:
[1] G. Karras, E. Hertz, F. Billard, B. Lavorel, J.M. Hartmann, O. Faucher, E. Gershnabel, Y. Prior, I.S. Averbukh, Orientation and Alignment Echoes, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114 153601 (2015).
[2] Th. Vieillard, F. Chaussard, F. Billard, D. Sugny, O. Faucher, S. Ivanov, J.-M. Hartmann, C. Boulet, and B. Lavorel, Field-free molecular alignment for probing collisional relaxation dynamics, Phys. Rev. A 87, 023409 (2013).
[3] J.-M. Hartmann, C. Boulet, Th. Vieillard, F. Chaussard, F. Billard, D. Sugny, O. Faucher, and B. Lavorel, Dissipation of alignment in CO2 gas: A comparison between ab initio predictions and experiments, J. Chem. Phys. 139, 024306-4 (2013).
[4] J. Houzet, E. Hertz, F. Billard, B. Lavorel, and O. Faucher, Molecular alignment allows low-order harmonic generation by circular light in a gas, Phys. Rev. A 88, 023859 (2013).
[5] G. Karras, E. Hertz, F. Billard, B. Lavorel, J.-M. Hartmann,  and O. Faucher, Using molecular alignment to track ultrafast collisional relaxation, Phys. Rev. A 89, 063411 (2014).
[6] F. Chaussard, Th. Vieillard, F. Billard, O. Faucher, J. -M. Hartmann, C. Boulet, B. Lavorel, Dissipation of post-pulse laser-induced alignment of CO2 through collisions with Ar, J. Raman Spectrosc. 46, 691 (2015).
[7] G. Karras, M. Ndong, E. Hertz, D. Sugny, F. Billard, B. Lavorel, and O. Faucher, "Polarization shaping for unidirectional rotational motion of molecules", Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 103001 (2015).






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