Kenneth J. Schafer

In LSU Schafer started his tenure-track position, continuing his postdoctoral research with Kent Wilson in heavy classical numerical simulations of the Coulomb explosion of the small atomic clusters purchasing for the calculations a SGI O2 machine, the research on the cold-hot nuclear fusion in small deuterium cluster droplets heated by the ultra-strong laser fields later observed by Ditmire in the Livermore National Laboratory,^[3] the method being a realistic and working microscopic and voltage-scaled paraphrase of the pioneering chemical hypothetical method of inducing fusion in palladium by Fleischmann and Pons using the deuterium pre-compression by palladium fcc lattice sponge and heavy water-like molecular trapping and cooling and the giant voltage from the laser field to induce cluster "electrolysis".^[4]

His theoretical contributions in the field of light–matter interactions, high harmonic generation and ultra short light pulse generation by highly nonlinear excitations and pulse shape propagation tailoring in solids and the Fourier phase matching contributed to the experiments^[5] that were part of the Nobel Prize in Physics to his scientific collaborator Anne L'Huillier in 2023.^[6]

• L’Huillier, A.; Schafer, K. J.; and Kulander, K. C. (1991). "Theoretical aspects of intense field harmonic generation". . Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 24: 3315. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/24/15/004.
• Krause, J. L.; Schafer, K. J..; and Kulander, K. C. (1992). "High-order harmonic generation from atoms and ions in the high intensity regime". Phys. Rev. Lett. 68: 3535.
• Schafer, K. J.; Yang, B.; DiMauro, L.F.; and Kulander, K.C. (1993). "Above threshold ionization beyond the high harmonic cutoff". Phys. Rev. Lett. 70: 1599.
• Schafer, K. J.; and Kulander, K. C. (1997). "High Harmonic Generation from Ultrafast Pump Lasers". Phys. Rev. Lett. 78: 638.
• Rose-Petruck, C.; Schafer, K.J.; Wilson, K.R.; and Barty, C.P.J. (1997). "Ultrafast electron dynamics and inner-shell ionization in laser driven clusters". Phys. Rev. A. 55: 1182.

• Kenneth Schafer old Assistant Professor Webpage at LSU.
• Kenneth Schafer and his research group member LSU Les and Dot Broussard Alumni Professor Mette Gaarde at the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 award granting ceremony in Stockholm (LSU on Facebook photo).
• Kenneth Schafer and Anne L’Huillier at the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 banquet in Stockholm (LSU on Facebook photo).
• Kenneth Schafer at Google Scholar