Nam Chang-hee

South Korean plasma physicist (born 1957)

Nam Chang-hee

Born| (1957-02-14)14 February 1957

Gwangju, South Korea

Nationality| South Korean
Alma mater| Seoul National University
KAIST
Princeton University
Known for| Femtosecond laser and attophysics
Scientific career
Fields| Plasma physics
Institutions| Institute for Basic Science
Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology
KAIST
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Pusan National University
Doctoral advisor| S. Suckewer
Website| https://corels.ibs.re.kr
Nam Chang-hee

Hangul|

남창희

Revised Romanization| Nam Chang-hui
McCune–Reischauer| Nam Ch'anghŭi

Nam Chang-hee (Korean: 남창희; born February 14, 1957) is a South Korean plasma physicist. Nam is specializing in the exploration of relativistic laser-matter interactions using femtosecond PW lasers. Currently he is professor of physics at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology and director of the Center for Relativistic Laser Science as a part of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS).

## Biography

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Nam studied nuclear engineering at Seoul National University, where he obtained his B.Sc. in 1977. After that he received a M.Sc. in physics from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1979. Entering the classroom as an instructor, he taught at Pusan National University until 1982. Enrolling at Princeton University, he moved to the United States, where he later received a Ph.D. in plasma physics in 1988.[1] He stayed in Princeton for a year working as a staff research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory.

In 1989, he began working as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics in KAIST, where he was promoted to associate professor in 1992 and full professor in 1998. From 1999, he was also director of the Coherent X-ray Research Center at KAIST where he researched ultrafast laser science.[2] He left KAIST in 2012 to become a professor at the Department of Physics and Photon Science at Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) and the founding director of the Center for Relativistic Laser Science, a research center at GIST with funding provided by the Institute for Basic Science.[3]

## Academic work

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Nam has published more than 120 journal papers and gives invited talks in international conferences. He served as a steering committee member of OECD Global Science Forum on Compact High-Intensity Short-Pulse Lasers (2001-2003) that eventually became ICUIL (Int. Comm. on Ultra-high Intensity Lasers) - a working group of IUPAP, and is a scientific advisory committee member of ELI - ALPS (Extreme Light Infrastructure/ Attosecond Light Pulse Source) – the EU program for the PW laser facility in Hungary started from 2011.

He has served as conference chairs (ICXRL in 2010, ISUILS in 2012), organizing chairs (APLS in 2008, 2010, 2012) or program chairs (CLEO-Pacific Rim in 2007, 2009). He is on the editorial boards of J. Phys. B as an international advisory committee member since 2007 and as a guest editor in 2012; IEEE Photonics Journal as an associate editor (from 2009 to 2011). He has represented Korea in international committees (ICQE from 2005 to 2012; CLEO-PR from 2012; Commission on Quantum Electronics of IUPAP since 2008). He has been instrumental in launching the Asian Intense Laser Network in 2004, serving as the first secretary

## Awards

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* 2020: Presidential Citation, Government Science Day Award, Ministry of Science and ICT[4][5]
* 2011: Sungdo Optical Science Award of the Optical Society Korea
* 2010: National Academy of Sciences Award, Korea[6][7][8]
* 2009: Fellow of the Optical Society of America[9]
* 2008: Fellow of the American Physical Society[10]

## Further reading

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* Kim, Kyung Taec; Ko, Dong Hyuk; Park, Juyun; Choi, Nark Nyul; Kim, Chul Min; Kenichi, Ishikawa L.; Lee, Jongmin; Nam, Chang Hee (2012). "Amplitude and phase reconstruction of electron wave packets for probing ultrafast photoionization dynamics". Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 (9): 093001. Bibcode:2012PhRvL.108i3001K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.093001. PMID 22463629. S2CID 21937409.
* Kim, Kyung Taec; Ko, Dong Hyuk; Park, Juyun; Tosa, Valer; Nam, Chang Hee (2010). "Complete temporal reconstruction of attosecond high-harmonic pulse trains". New J. Phys. 12 (8): 083019. Bibcode:2010NJPh...12h3019T. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/083019.
* Ko, Dong Hyuk; Kim, Kyung Taec; Park, Juyun; Lee, Jae-hwan; Nam, Chang Hee (2010). "Attosecond chirp compensation over broadband high-order harmonics to generate near transform-limited 63-as pulses". New J. Phys. 12 (6): 063008. Bibcode:2010NJPh...12f3008K. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/12/6/063008.
* Park, J.; Lee, J.-H.; Nam, C. H. (2009). "Generation of 1.5-cycle 0.3-TW laser pulses using a hollow-fiber pulse compressor". Opt. Lett. 34 (15): 2342–4\. Bibcode:2009OptL...34.2342P. doi:10.1364/OL.34.002342. PMID 19649091.2342-4&rft.date=2009&rft_id=info:pmid/19649091&rft_id=info:doi/10.1364/OL.34.002342&rft_id=info:bibcode/2009OptL...34.2342P&rft.aulast=Park&rft.aufirst=J.&rft.au=Lee,+J.-H.&rft.au=Nam,+C.+H.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Nam+Chang-hee" class="Z3988">
* Kim, Kyung Taec; Kang, Kyung Sik; Park, Mi Na; Imran, Tayyab; Umesh, G.; Nam, Chang Hee (2007). "Self-Compression of Attosecond High-order Harmonic Pulses". Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 (22): 223904. Bibcode:2007PhRvL..99v3904K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.223904. PMID 18233288.
* Kim, I Jong; Min Kim, Chul; Taek Kim, Hyung; Hwang Lee, Gae; Soo Lee, Yong; Yun Park, Ju; Hee Nam, Chang (2005). "Highly efficient high-harmonic generation in an orthogonally polarized two-color laser field". Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 (24): 243901. Bibcode:2005PhRvL..94x3901K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.243901.
* Kim, Kyung Taec; Kim, Chul Min; Baik, Moon-Gu; Umesh, G.; Nam, Chang Hee (2004). "Single sub-50-attosecond pulse generation from chirp-compensated harmonic radiation using material dispersion". Phys. Rev. A. 69 (5): 051805. Bibcode:2004PhRvA..69e1805K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.69.051805.
* Lee, D. G.; Kim, J.-H.; Hong, K. H.; Nam, C. H. (2001). "Coherent control of high-order harmonics with chirped femtosecond laser pulses". Phys. Rev. Lett. 87 (24): 243902. Bibcode:2001PhRvL..87x3902L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.243902. PMID 11736503. S2CID 32618327.
* Shin, Hyun Joon; Lee, Dong Gun; Cha, Yong Ho; Hong, Kyung Han; Nam, Chang Hee (1999). "Generation of Nonadiabatic Blueshift of High Harmonics in an Intense Femtosecond Laser Field". Phys. Rev. Lett. 83 (13): 2544–2547\. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.2544S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2544.2544-2547&rft.date=1999&rft_id=info:doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2544&rft_id=info:bibcode/1999PhRvL..83.2544S&rft.aulast=Shin&rft.aufirst=Hyun+Joon&rft.au=Lee,+Dong+Gun&rft.au=Cha,+Yong+Ho&rft.au=Hong,+Kyung+Han&rft.au=Nam,+Chang+Hee&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Nam+Chang-hee" class="Z3988">
* Nam, C.H.; Tighe, W.; Suckewer, S.; Seely, J.F.; Feldman, U.; Woltz, L.A. (1987). "Observation of Asymmetric Stark Profiles from Plasma Created by a Picosecond KrF Laser". Phys. Rev. Lett. 59 (21): 2427–2430\. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..59.2427N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2427. PMID 10035548.2427-2430&rft.date=1987&rft_id=info:pmid/10035548&rft_id=info:doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2427&rft_id=info:bibcode/1987PhRvL..59.2427N&rft.aulast=Nam&rft.aufirst=C.H.&rft.au=Tighe,+W.&rft.au=Suckewer,+S.&rft.au=Seely,+J.F.&rft.au=Feldman,+U.&rft.au=Woltz,+L.A.&rft_id=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1094941/&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Nam+Chang-hee" class="Z3988">

## External links

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* IBS Center for Relativistic Laser Science home page: http://corels.ibs.re.kr
* http://www.gist.ac.kr/
* Kim, KT; Ko, DH; Park, J; Choi, NN; Kim, CM; Ishikawa, KL; Lee, J; Nam, CH (2012). "Amplitude and Phase Reconstruction of Electron Wave Packets for Probing Ultrafast Photoionization Dynamics". Physical Review Letters. 108 (9): 093001. Bibcode:2012PhRvL.108i3001K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.093001. PMID 22463629. S2CID 21937409.
* Kim, Kyung Taec; Ko, Dong Hyuk; Park, Juyun; Tosa, Valer; Nam, Chang Hee (2010). "Complete temporal reconstruction of attosecond high-harmonic pulse trains". New Journal of Physics. 12 (8): 083019. Bibcode:2010NJPh...12h3019T. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/083019.
* Ko, Dong Hyuk; Kim, Kyung Taec; Park, Juyun; Lee, Jae-Hwan; Nam, Chang Hee (2010). "Attosecond chirp compensation over broadband high-order harmonics to generate near transform-limited 63 as pulses". New Journal of Physics. 12 (6): 063008. Bibcode:2010NJPh...12f3008K. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/12/6/063008.
* Park, Juyun; Lee, Jae-Hwan; Nam, Chang Hee (2009). "Generation of 15 cycle 03 TW laser pulses using a hollow-fiber pulse compressor". Optics Letters. 34 (15): 2342–4\. Bibcode:2009OptL...34.2342P. doi:10.1364/OL.34.002342. PMID 19649091.2342-4&rft.date=2009&rft_id=info:pmid/19649091&rft_id=info:doi/10.1364/OL.34.002342&rft_id=info:bibcode/2009OptL...34.2342P&rft.aulast=Park&rft.aufirst=Juyun&rft.au=Lee,+Jae-Hwan&rft.au=Nam,+Chang+Hee&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Nam+Chang-hee" class="Z3988">
* Kim, KT; Kang, KS; Park, MN; Imran, T; Umesh, G; Nam, CH (2007). "Self-Compression of Attosecond High-Order Harmonic Pulses". Physical Review Letters. 99 (22): 223904. Bibcode:2007PhRvL..99v3904K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.223904. PMID 18233288.
* Kim, I Jong; Kim, Chul Min; Kim, Hyung Taek; Lee, Gae Hwang; Lee, Yong Soo; Park, Ju Yun; Cho, David Jaeyun; Nam, Chang Hee (2005). "Highly Efficient High-Harmonic Generation in an Orthogonally Polarized Two-Color Laser Field". Physical Review Letters. 94 (24): 243901. Bibcode:2005PhRvL..94x3901K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.243901.
* Kim, Kyung Taec; Kim, Chul Min; Baik, Moon-Gu; Umesh, G.; Nam, Chang Hee (2004). "Single sub − 50 − attosecond pulse generation from chirp-compensated harmonic radiation using material dispersion". Physical Review A. 69 (5): 051805. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.69.051805.
* Lee, DG; Kim, JH; Hong, KH; Nam, CH (2001). "Coherent Control of High-Order Harmonics with Chirped Femtosecond Laser Pulses". Physical Review Letters. 87 (24): 243902. Bibcode:2001PhRvL..87x3902L. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.243902. PMID 11736503. S2CID 32618327.
* Shin, Hyun Joon; Lee, Dong Gun; Cha, Yong Ho; Hong, Kyung Han; Nam, Chang Hee (1999). "Generation of Nonadiabatic Blueshift of High Harmonics in an Intense Femtosecond Laser Field". Physical Review Letters. 83 (13): 2544–2547\. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.2544S. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2544.2544-2547&rft.date=1999&rft_id=info:doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.2544&rft_id=info:bibcode/1999PhRvL..83.2544S&rft.aulast=Shin&rft.aufirst=Hyun+Joon&rft.au=Lee,+Dong+Gun&rft.au=Cha,+Yong+Ho&rft.au=Hong,+Kyung+Han&rft.au=Nam,+Chang+Hee&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Nam+Chang-hee" class="Z3988">
* Nam, CH; Tighe, W; Suckewer, S; Seely, JF; Feldman, U; Woltz, LA (1987). "Observation of Asymmetric Stark Profiles from Plasmas Created by a Picosecond KrF Laser". Physical Review Letters. 59 (21): 2427–2430\. Bibcode:1987PhRvL..59.2427N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2427. PMID 10035548.2427-2430&rft.date=1987&rft_id=info:pmid/10035548&rft_id=info:doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.59.2427&rft_id=info:bibcode/1987PhRvL..59.2427N&rft.aulast=Nam&rft.aufirst=CH&rft.au=Tighe,+W&rft.au=Suckewer,+S&rft.au=Seely,+JF&rft.au=Feldman,+U&rft.au=Woltz,+LA&rft_id=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1094941/&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Nam+Chang-hee" class="Z3988">

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