Prof. Dr. Yousef Salamin

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsTheoretical Physics,Atomic Physics, Molecular Physics, Laser Physics
KeywordsCosmic-ray acceleration, Laser acceleration, Interaction of super-intense laser fields with, electrons, ions and bare nuclei
Honours and awards

2011: Distinguished Scholar Award from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development (Kuwait)

1999: DAAD Gast Dozent (two years at Freiburg University)

1996: Abdul-Hameed Shoman Prize for Young Arab Scientists

1995: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship

Current contact address

CountryUnited Arab Emirates
CitySharjah
InstitutionAmerican University of Sharjah
InstitutePhysics Department
Homepagewww.aus.edu

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Farhad H. FaisalFakultät für Physik, Abteilung für Theoretische Physik, Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Christoph Helmut KeitelLehrstuhl für Theoretische Quantendynamik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburg
Prof. Dr. Christoph Helmut KeitelAbteilung Theorie, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Christoph Helmut KeitelMax-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
Dr. Ahmad HujeiratIWR, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/1995

Programme(s)

1994Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2007Yousef Salamin: Acceleration in vacuum of bare nuclei by tightly focused radially polarized laser light . In: Optics Letters, 2007, 3462 -3464
2006Yousef Salamin, Suxing Hu, Karen Hatsagortsyan KZ, Christoph Keitel: Relativistic high-power laser-matter interactions. In: Physics Reports, 2006, 41-155
2005Mohammad Mahmoudi, Yousef Salamin, Christoph Keitel: Free-electron quantum signatures in intense laser fields. In: Physical Review A, 2005, 033402/1-7
2003Yousef Salamin, Christoph Keitel: Net electron energy gain from a tightly-focused laser beam in vacuum. In: Georg Hanne, Laurence Malegat, Horst Schmidt-Böcking , CORRELATION AND POLARIZATION IN PHOTONIC, ELECTRONIC, AND ATOMIC COLLISIONS. AIP Conference Proceedings 697, 2003. 3-12
2003Yousef Salamin, Christoph Keitel: Optimum conditions for electron acceleration using tightly focused laser beams . In: Laser Physics, 2003, 407 -413
2003Yousef Salamin, Guido Mocken, Christoph Keitel: Relativistic electron dynamics in intense crossed laser beams: Acceleration and Compton harmonics . In: Physical Review E, 2003, 016501/1-13
2001Yousef Salamin, Christoph H. Keitel, Farhad H. M. Faisal: Electron acceleration in combined laser and uniform electric fields. In: J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 2001, 2819-2837
2000Yousef Salamin, Farhad Faisal: Ultrahigh electron acceleration and Compton emission spectra in a superintense laser pulse and a uniform axial magnetic field. In: Physical Review A , 2000, 043801
1999Farhad Faisal, Yousef Salamin: Electron dynamics and photon-emission spectra in an ultrashort laser pulse and a uniform magnetic field . In: Physical Review A, 1999, 2505 -2516
1999Yousef Salamin: Forward and backscattered ultrahigh-intensity Compton spectra in a uniform magnetic field. In: Physical Review A, 1999, 3276 -3283
1998Yousef Salamin, Farhad Faisal: Generation of Compton harmonics by scattering linearly polarized light of arbitrary intensity from free electrons of arbitrary initial velocity. In: Journal of Physics A, 1998, 1319 -1327
1997Yousef Salamin: Classical relativistic dynamics of a free electron in an intense laser field. In: Journal of Physics A, 1997, 4399 -4412
1997Yousef Salamin, Farhad Faisal: Harmonic generation by scattering circularly polarized light of arbitrary intensity from free electrons of arbitrary initial velocity . In: Physical Review A, 1997, 3964 -3967
1997Farhad Faisal, Yousef Salamin: Ponderomotive scattering of electrons in intense laser fields. In: Physical Review A, 1997, 3678-3683
1996Yousef Salamin, Farhad Faisal: Harmonic generation by superintense light scattering from relativistic electrons . In: Physical Review A, 1996, 4383 -4395
1996Yousef Salamin: Multiphoton processes without the dipole approximation . In: Physics Letters A, 1996, 221 -226