Franklin Dollar

Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, School of Physical Sciences

Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy

Biography

Franklin Dollar is a Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been a faculty member since 2015. He also serves as the Associate Dean of Graduate Studies in the School of Physical Sciences at UCI. Dollar received his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan in 2012, where he also completed a Graduate Certificate in Plasma Science & Engineering and an M.S.E. in Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining UCI, Dollar was a Senior Research Associate in the Kapteyn-Murnane group at JILA, affiliated with the University of Colorado, Boulder, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Dollar’s research is centered on ultrafast x-ray sources and their applications, focusing on ultrafast laser plasma interactions, including light ion acceleration, electron acceleration, neutron generation, and high-order harmonic generation. He has authored or co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed journal articles and has been cited more than 4,600 times, reflecting his significant contributions to the field. His research has been supported by several major grants, including funding from the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. Notable honors include the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2018 and the Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2016.

At UCI, Dollar teaches courses ranging from introductory mechanics to advanced plasma physics, and he has supervised numerous graduate and undergraduate students in their research projects. He is actively involved in professional service, holding positions such as Member-at-large on the Division of Plasma Physics Executive Committee of the American Physical Society. Additionally, Dollar has contributed to the enhancement of diversity and inclusion within the scientific community through his involvement with the Cal-Bridge Partnership and Mentoring Committee and his service on the Academic Senate Council on Equity & Inclusion at UCI.

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Degrees

PhD in Applied Physics, University of Michigan, 2012
Grad. Cert. in Plasma Science & Engineering, University of Michigan, 2011
MSE in Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2010
BS in Engineering Physics, University of California, Berkeley, 2006

Distinctions

Kavli Fellow, 2022
UCI Tom Angell Mentoring Faculty Fellowship Award, 2021
UCI Physics & Astronomy Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2018
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2018
Nature Journals Outstanding Peer Reviewer, 2017
IOP Outstanding Reviewer Award, 2017
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2016
American Indian Science and Engineering Society Most Promising Scientist, 2015
John Dawson Thesis Prize, 2013
Proquest Distinguished Dissertation Award Honorable Mention, 2012

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Areas of Expertise

Ultrafast Laser-Plasma Interactions
High-Order Harmonic Generation
Relativistic Laser-Solid Interactions
Laser Wakefield Acceleration
High Energy Density Physics
X-ray Production and Applications
Neutron Generation
Nanoplasmonics
Shock Physics
Experimental Plasma Physics

Recent Publications

Beier N.F., Dollar F., “Two-color high-harmonic generation from relativistic plasma mirrors”, Physical Review E, vol. 108, 2023.
Kostadinova E.G., Greco S., Murdock M., Barraza-Valdez E., Hasson H.R., West-Abdallah I.Z., Harper C.A., Brown K., Scime E., Dollar F., Greninger C., Stanley B., Oxford E., Schaffner D., Provenzani L., Curry C.B., Fracchiolla C., El-Adawy S., Thakur S.C., Orlov D., Anderson C., “Summary report from the mini-conference on workforce development through research-based, plasma-focused activities”, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 30, 2023.
“Various Peer Reviewed Journal Articles”, 2023.
“Various Conference Proceedings”, 2023.
Stanfield M., Ott J., Gardner C., Beier N.F., Farinella D.M., Mancuso C.A., Baldi P., Dollar F., “Real-time reconstruction of high energy, ultrafast laser pulses using deep learning”, Scientific Reports, vol. 12, 2022.
Beier N.F., Allison H., Efthimion P., Flippo K.A., Gao L., Hansen S.B., Hill K., Hollinger R., Logantha M., Musthafa Y., Nedbailo R., Senthilkumaran V., Shepherd R., Shlyaptsev V.N., Song H., Wang S., Dollar F., Rocca J.J., Hussein A.E., “Homogeneous, Micron-Scale High-Energy-Density Matter Generated by Relativistic Laser-Solid Interactions”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 129, 2022.
Stanfield M., Beier N.F., Hakimi S., Allison H., Farinella D., Hussein A.E., Tajima T., Dollar F., “Millijoule few-cycle pulses from staged compression for strong and high field science”, Optics Express, vol. 29, pp. 9123-9136, 2021.
Ma Y., Seipt D., Hussein A.E., Hakimi S., Beier N.F., Hansen S.B., Hinojosa J., Maksimchuk A., Nees J., Krushelnick K., Thomas A.G.R., Dollar F., “The effects of laser polarization and wavelength on injection dynamics of a laser wakefield accelerator”, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 28, 2021.
Ma Y., Seipt D., Hussein A.E., Hakimi S., Beier N.F., Hansen S.B., Hinojosa J., Maksimchuk A., Nees J., Krushelnick K., Thomas A.G.R., Dollar F., “Polarization-Dependent Self-Injection by Above Threshold Ionization Heating in a Laser Wakefield Accelerator”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 124, 2020.
Stanfield M., Allison H., Beier N., Hakimi S., Hussein A.E., Dollar F., “Few cycle EUV continuum generation via thin film compression”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, vol. Part F182-CLEO-QELS 2020, 2020.
Stanfield M., Allison H., Beier N.F., Hakimi S., Hussein A.E., Dollar F., “Generating relativistic intensities via staged pulse compression in dielectric media”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2020.
Stanfield M., Allison H., Beier N., Hakimi S., Hussein A.E., Dollar F., “Few Cycle EUV Continuum Generation via Thin Film Compression”, Conference Proceedings - Lasers and Electro-Optics Society Annual Meeting-LEOS, vol. 2020-May, 2020.
Farinella D.M., Wheeler J., Hussein A.E., Nees J., Stanfield M., Beier N., Ma Y., Cojocaru G., Ungureanu R., Pittman M., Demailly J., Baynard E., Fabbri R., Masruri M., Secareanu R., Naziru A., Dabu R., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., Ros D., Mourou G., Tajima T., Dollar F., “Focusability of laser pulses at petawatt transport intensities in thin-film compression”, Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics, vol. 36, pp. A28-A32, 2019.
Farinella D.M., Stanfield M., Beier N., Nguyen T., Hakimi S., Tajima T., Dollar F., Wheeler J., Mourou G., “Demonstration of thin film compression for short-pulse X-ray generation”, International Journal of Modern Physics A, vol. 34, 2019.
Hakimi S., Zhang X., Lau C., Taborek P., Dollar F., Tajima T., “X-ray laser wakefield acceleration in a nanotube”, International Journal of Modern Physics A, vol. 34, 2019.
Beier N., Nguyen T., Lin J., Nees J., Krushelnick K., Dollar F., “Relativistic short-pulse high harmonic generation at 1.3 and 2.1 μm wavelengths”, New Journal of Physics, vol. 21, 2019.
Willingale L., Arefiev A.V., Williams G.J., Chen H., Dollar F., Hazi A.U., Maksimchuk A., Manuel M.J.E., Marley E., Nazarov W., Zhao T.Z., Zulick C., “The unexpected role of evolving longitudinal electric fields in generating energetic electrons in relativistically transparent plasmas”, New Journal of Physics, vol. 20, 2018.
Hakimi S., Nguyen T., Farinella D., Lau C.K., Wang H.Y., Taborek P., Dollar F., Tajima T., “Wakefield in solid state plasma with the ionic lattice force”, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 25, 2018.
McGuffey C., Schumaker W., Matsuoka T., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Kalintchenko G., Kneip S., Najmudin Z., Mangles S.P.D., Vargas M., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Thomas A.G.R., Krushelnick K., “On the properties of synchrotron-like X-ray emission from laser wakefield accelerated electron beams”, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 25, 2018.
Ellis J.L., Dorney K.M., Durfee C.G., Hernández-García C., Dollar F., Mancuso C.A., Fan T., Zusin D., Gentry C., Grychtol P., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., Hickstein D.D., “Phase matching of noncollinear sum and difference frequency high harmonic generation above and below the critical ionization level”, Optics Express, vol. 25, pp. 10126-10144, 2017.
Dollar F., Zulick C., Raymond A., Chvykov V., Willingale L., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Thomas A.G.R., Krushelnick K., “Enhanced laser absorption from radiation pressure in intense laser plasma interactions”, New Journal of Physics, vol. 19, 2017.
Ellis J., Dorney K., Durfee C., Hernandez-Garcia C., Dollar F., Mancuso C., Tingting F., Zusin D., Gentry C., Grychtol P., Kapteyn H., Murnane M., Hickstein D., “Phase matching of noncollinear sum and difference frequency high harmonic generation”, 2017 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2017 - Proceedings, vol. 2017-January, pp. 1-2, 2017.
Ellis J.L., Dorney K.M., Durfee C.G., Hernandez-Garcia C., Dollar F., Mancuso C.A., Fan T., Zusin D., Gentry C., Grychtol P., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., Hickstein D.D., “Phase matching of noncollinear sum and difference frequency high harmonic generation”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, vol. Part F43-CLEO_AT 2017, 2017.
Mancuso C.A., Hickstein D.D., Dorney K.M., Ellis J.L., Hasović E., Knut R., Grychtol P., Gentry C., Gopalakrishnan M., Zusin D., Dollar F.J., Tong X.M., Milošević D.B., Becker W., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., “Controlling electron-ion rescattering in two-color circularly polarized femtosecond laser fields”, Physical Review A, vol. 93, 2016.
Zhang X., Tajima T., Farinella D., Shin Y., Mourou G., Wheeler J., Taborek P., Chen P., Dollar F., Shen B., “Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes”, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, vol. 19, 2016.
Ellis J.L., Hickstein D.D., Xiong W., Dollar F., Palm B.B., Keister K.E., Dorney K.M., Ding C., Fan T., Wilker M.B., Schnitzenbaumer K.J., Dukovic G., Jimenez J.L., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., “Materials Properties and Solvated Electron Dynamics of Isolated Nanoparticles and Nanodroplets Probed with Ultrafast Extreme Ultraviolet Beams”, Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 7, pp. 609-615, 2016.
Fan T., Grychtol P., Knut R., Hernandez-Garcia C., Hickstein D.D., Zusin D., Gentry C., Dollar F.J., Mancuso C.A., Hogle C., Kfir O., Legut D., Carva K., Ellis J.L., Dorney K., Chen C., Shpyrko O., Fullerton E.E., Cohen O., Oppeneer P.M., Milosevic D.B., Becker A., Jaron-Becker A.A., Popmintchev T., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., “Generation of bright soft X-ray harmonics with circular polarization for X-ray magnetic circular dichroism”, 2016 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2016, 2016.
Hickstein D., Dollar F., Grychtol P., Ellis J., Knut R., Hernández-García C., Zusin D., Gentry C., Shaw J., Fan T., Dorney K., Becker A., Jaro-Becker A., Kapteyn H., Murnane M., Durfee C., “Erratum: Non-collinear generation of angularly isolated circularly polarized high harmonics (Nature Photonics (2015) 9 (743-750))”, Nature Photonics, vol. 10, pp. 135, 2016.
Ellis J.L., Hickstein D.D., Xiong W., Dollar F., Palm B.B., Ellen Keister K., Dorney K.M., Ding C., Fan T., Wilker M.B., Schnitzenbaumer K.J., Dukovic G., Jimenez J.L., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., “Femtosecond dynamics of solvated electrons in nanodroplets probed with extreme ultraviolet beams”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2016.
Fan T., Grychtol P., Knut R., Hernández-García C., Hickstein D.D., Zusin D., Gentry C., Dollar F.J., Mancuso C.A., Hogle C., Kfir O., Legut D., Carva K., Ellis J.L., Dorney K., Chen C., Shpyrko O., Fullerton E.E., Cohen O., Oppeneer P.M., Miloševic D.B., Becker A., Jaron-Becker A.A., Popmintchev T., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., “Bright circularly polarized soft X-ray harmonics for static and dynamic X-ray magnetic circular dichroism”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2016.
Fan T., Grychtol P., Knut R., Hernández-García C., Hickstein D.D., Zusin D., Gentry C., Dollar F.J., Mancuso C.A., Hogle C., Kfir O., Legut D., Carva K., Ellis J.L., Dorney K., Chen C., Shpyrko O., Fullerton E.E., Cohen O., Oppeneer P.M., Miloševic D.B., Becker A., Jaron-Becker A.A., Popmintchev T., Murnane M.M., Kap H.C., “Soft X-ray high harmonic generation with circular polarization for X-ray magnetic circular dichroism”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2016.
Fan T., Grychtol P., Knut R., Hernández-García C., Hickstein D.D., Zusin D., Gentry C., Dollar F.J., Mancuso C.A., Hogle C., Kfir O., Legut D., Carva K., Ellis J.L., Dorney K., Chen C., Shpyrko O., Fullerton E.E., Cohen O., Oppeneer P.M., Milošević D.B., Becker A., Jaron-Becker A.A., Popmintchev T., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., “Generation of Bright Soft X-ray Harmonics with Circular Polarization for X-ray Magnetic Circular Dichroism”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2016.
Zhang X., Tajima T., Farinella D., Shin Y., Mourou G., Wheeler J., Taborek P., Chen P., Dollar F., Shen B., “Erratum: Particle-in-cell simulation of x-ray wakefield acceleration and betatron radiation in nanotubes (Physical Review Accelerators and Beams (2016) 19: (101004) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.19.101004)”, Physical Review Accelerators and Beams, vol. 19, 2016.
Welch E.C., Zhang P., Dollar F., He Z.H., Krushelnick K., Thomas A.G.R., “Time dependent Doppler shifts in high-order harmonic generation in intense laser interactions with solid density plasma and frequency chirped pulses”, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 22, 2015.
Mancuso C., Hickstein D.D., Grychtol P., Knut R., Kfir O., Tong X.M., Dollar F., Zusin D., Gopalakrishnan M., Gentry C., Turgut E., Ellis J.L., Chen M.C., Fleischer A., Cohen O., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., “Direct observation of rescattering from strong field ionization by two-color circularly polarized laser fields”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe - Technical Digest, vol. 2015-August, 2015.
Chen M.C., Mancuso C., Hernández-García C., Dollar F., Galloway B., Popmintchev D., Langdon B., Auger A., Huang P.C., Walker B.C., Plaja L., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., “Bright isolated attosecond soft X-Ray pulses”, Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 162, pp. 95-98, 2015.
Hickstein D.D., Dollar F., Ellis J.L., Gaffney J.A., Foord M.E., Petrov G.M., Palm B.B., Ding C., Ellen Keister K., Libby S.B., Jimenez J.L., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., Xiong W., “Single nanoparticles and nanoplasmas in femtosecond laser fields”, Springer Proceedings in Physics, vol. 162, pp. 702-706, 2015.
Hickstein D.D., Dollar F., Gaffney J.A., Foord M.E., Petrov G.M., Palm B.B., Keister K.E., Ellis J.L., Ding C., Libby S.B., Jimenez J.L., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., Xiong W., “Observation and control of shock waves in individual nanoplasmas”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 112, 2014.
Hickstein D.D., Dollar F., Ellis J.L., Schnitzenbaumer K.J., Keister K.E., Petrov G.M., Ding C., Palm B.B., Gaffney J.A., Foord M.E., Libby S.B., Dukovic G., Jimenez J.L., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., Xiong W., “Mapping Nanoscale Absorption of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Using Plasma Explosion Imaging”, ACS Nano, vol. 8, pp. 8810-8818, 2014.
Matsuoka T., McGuffey C., Cummings P.G., Bulanov S.S., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Horovitz Y., Kalintchenko G., Krushelnick K., Rousseau P., Thomas A.G.R., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., “On electron betatron motion and electron injection in laser wakefield accelerators”, Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, vol. 56, 2014.
Popmintchev D., Hernández-García C., Shim B., Chen M.C., Dollar F., Mancuso C., Pérez-Hernández J.A., Gao X., Hankla A., Gaeta A., Tarazkar M., Romanov D., Levis R., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., Plaja L., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., “Bright high order harmonic generation in a multiply ionized plasma up to the water window”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2014.
Chen M.C., Mancuso C., Hernández-García C., Dollar F., Galloway B., Popmintchev D., Huang P.C., Walker B.C., Plaja L., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., “Generation of bright isolated attosecond soft X-ray pulses driven by multi-cycle mid-infrared lasers”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2014.
Hernández-García C., Chen M.C., Mancuso C., Dollar F., Galloway B., Popmintchev D., Huang P.C., Walker B.C., Popmintchev T., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Plaja L., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., “Theory of time-gated phase-matching for isolated attosecond soft x-ray pulse generation using mid-infrared lasers”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2014.
Hickstein D.D., Dollar F., Gaffney J.A., Foord M.E., Petrov G.M., Palm B.B., Ellis J.L., Ding C., Ellen Keister K., Libby S.B., Jimenez J.L., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., Xiong W., “Ultrafast dynamics of individual, isolated nanoparticles and nanoplasmas in intense laser fields”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2014.
Chen M.C., Mancuso C., Hernández-García C., Dollar F., Galloway B., Popmintchev D., Langdon B., Auger A., Huang P.C., Walker B.C., Plaja L., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., “Generation of bright isolated attosecond soft X-ray pulses driven by multi-cycle mid-infrared lasers”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2014.
Mancuso C., Chen M.C., Hernández-García C., Dollar F., Galloway B., Popmintchev D., Langdon B., Auger A., Huang P.C., Walker B.C., Plaja L., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., “Generation of bright isolated attosecond soft X-ray pulses driven by multi-cycle mid-infrared lasers”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2014.
Hernández-García C., Chen M., Mancuso C., Dollar F., Galloway B., Popmintchev D., Huang P., Walker B., Popmintchev T., Murnane M., Kapteyn H., Plaja L., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., “Theory of time-gated phase-matching for isolated attosecond soft x-ray pulse generation using mid-infrared lasers”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe - Technical Digest, vol. 2014-January, 2014.
Popmintchev D., Hernández-García C., Shim B., Chen M.C., Dollar F., Mancuso C., Pérez-Hernández J.A., Gao X., Hankla A., Gaeta A., Tarazkar M., Romanov D., Levis R., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., Plaja L., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., “Bright high order harmonic generation in a multiply ionized plasma up to the water window”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe - Technical Digest, vol. 2014-January, 2014.
Mancuso C., Chen M., Hernandez-Garcia C., Dollar F., Galloway B., Popmintchev D., Langdon B., Auger A., Huang P., Walker B., Plaja L., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., Murnane M., Kapteyn H., Popmintchev T., “Generation of bright isolated attosecond soft X-ray pulses driven by multi-cycle mid-infrared lasers”, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe - Technical Digest, vol. 2014-January, 2014.
Dollar F., Cummings P., Chvykov V., Willingale L., Vargas M., Yanovsky V., Zulick C., Maksimchuk A., Thomas A.G.R., Krushelnick K., “Scaling high-order harmonic generation from laser-solid interactions to ultrahigh intensity”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 110, 2013.
Schumaker W., Nakanii N., McGuffey C., Zulick C., Chyvkov V., Dollar F., Habara H., Kalintchenko G., Maksimchuk A., Tanaka K.A., Thomas A.G.R., Yanovsky V., Krushelnick K., “Ultrafast electron radiography of magnetic fields in high-intensity laser-solid interactions”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 110, 2013.
Zulick C., Dollar F., Chvykov V., Davis J., Kalinchenko G., Maksimchuk A., Petrov G., Raymond A., Thomas A., Willingale L., Yanovsky V., Krushelnick K., “Energetic neutron beams generated from femtosecond laser plasma interactions”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102, 2013.
Zulick C., Hou B., Dollar F., Maksimchuk A., Nees J., Thomas A., Zhao Z., Krushelnick K., “High resolution bremsstrahlung and fast electron characterization in ultrafast intense laser-solid interactions”, New Journal of Physics, vol. 15, 2013.
Maksimchuk A., Raymond A., Yu F., Petrov G.M., Dollar F., Willingale L., Zulick C., Davis J., Krushelnick K., “Dominant deuteron acceleration with a high-intensity laser for isotope production and neutron generation”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 102, 2013.
Dollar F., Zulick C., Matsuoka T., McGuffey C., Bulanov S.S., Chvykov V., Davis J., Kalinchenko G., Petrov G.M., Willingale L., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Thomas A.G.R., Krushelnick K., “High contrast ion acceleration at intensities exceeding 10 21 W cm - 2”, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 20, 2013.
Dollar F., Reed S.A., Matsuoka T., Bulanov S.S., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., McGuffey C., Rousseau P., Thomas A.G.R., Willingale L., Yanovsky V., Litzenberg D.W., Krushelnick K., Maksimchuk A., “High-intensity laser-driven proton acceleration enhancement from hydrogen containing ultrathin targets”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 103, 2013.
Brantov A., Bychenkov V.Y., Romanov D.V., Dollar F., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., “High-Intensity Laser Triggered Proton Acceleration from Ultrathin Foils”, Contributions to Plasma Physics, vol. 53, pp. 161-164, 2013.
Popmintchev D., Chen M.C., Hernández-García C., Pérez-Hernández J.A., Sequeira J., Brown S., Dollar F., Grytchtol P., Walker B., Plaja L., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., “Ultrahigh-efficiency high harmonic generation driven by UV lasers”, CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, CLEO:QELS FS 2013, 2013.
Popmintchev D., Chen M.C., Hernandez-Garcia C., Perez-Hernandez J.A., Sequeira J., Brown S., Dollar F., Grytchtol P., Walker B., Plaja L., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., “Ultrahigh-efficiency high harmonic generation driven by UV lasers”, 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2013, 2013.
Zulick C., Dollar F., Chvykov V., Davis J., Kalinchenko G., Maksimchuk A., Petrov G., Raymond A., Thomas A., Willingale L., Yanovsky V., Krushelnick K., “Ultra-intense laser neutron generation through efficient deuteron acceleration”, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 8779, 2013.
Dollar F., Zulick C., Thomas A., Chvykov V., Davis J., Kalinchenko G., Matsuoka T., McGuffey C., Petrov G., Willingale L., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., “Finite spot effects on radiation pressure acceleration from intense high-contrast laser interactions with thin targets”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 108, 2012.
Kneip S., McGuffey C., Martins J.L., Bloom M.S., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Fonseca R., Jolly S., Kalintchenko G., Krushelnick K., Maksimchuk A., Mangles S.P.D., Najmudin Z., Palmer C.A.J., Phuoc K.T., Schumaker W., Silva L.O., Vieira J., Yanovsky V., Thomas A.G.R., “Characterization of transverse beam emittance of electrons from a laser-plasma wakefield accelerator in the bubble regime using betatron x-ray radiation”, Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 15, 2012.
Soufli R., Spiller E., Windt D.L., Robinson J.C., Gullikson E.M., Marcos L.R.D., Fernández-Perea M., Baker S.L., Aquila A.L., Dollar F.J., Méndez J.A., Larruquert J.I., Golub L., Boerner P., “In-band and out-of-band reflectance calibrations of the EUV multilayer mirrors of the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory”, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 8443, 2012.
McGuffey C., Matsuoka T., Kneip S., Schumaker W., Dollar F., Zulick C., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Thomas A., Krushelnick K., Najmudin Z., “Experimental laser wakefield acceleration scalings exceeding 100 TW”, Physics of Plasmas, vol. 19, 2012.
Yanovsky V., Dollar F., Maksimchuk A., Nees J., Thomas A., Krushelnick K., “High-aspect-ratio plasma target for Raman backscattering in Exawatt laser development”, 2012 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2012, 2012.
Yanovsky V., Dollar F., Maksimchuk A., Nees J., Thomas A., Krushelnick K., “High-aspect-ratio plasma target for Raman backscattering in exawatt laser development”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2012.
Yanovsky V., Dollar F., Maksimchuk A., Nees J., Thomas A., Krushelnick K., “High-aspect-ratio plasma target for raman backscattering in exawatt laser development”, CLEO: Applications and Technology, CLEO_AT 2012, 2012.
Chen H., Meyerhofer D.D., Wilks S.C., Cauble R., Dollar F., Falk K., Gregori G., Hazi A., Moses E.I., Murphy C.D., Myatt J., Park J., Seely J., Shepherd R., Spitkovsky A., Stoeckl C., Szabo C.I., Tommasini R., Zulick C., Beiersdorfer P., “Towards laboratory produced relativistic electron-positron pair plasmas”, High Energy Density Physics, vol. 7, pp. 225-229, 2011.
Dollar F., Matsuoka T., Petrov G., Thomas A., Bulanov S., Chvykov V., Davis J., Kalinchenko G., Mcguffey C., Willingale L., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., “Control of energy spread and dark current in proton and ion beams generated in high-contrast laser solid interactions”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 107, 2011.
Zulick C., Dollar F., Chen H., Falk K., Gregori G., Hazi A., Murphy C., Park J., Seely J., Szabo C., Tommasini R., Shepherd R., Krushelnick K., “K-shell spectroscopy of Au plasma generated with a short-pulse laser”, Canadian Journal of Physics, vol. 89, pp. 647-651, 2011.
Matsuoka T., McGuffey C., Cummings P., Horovitz Y., Dollar F., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., Rousseau P., Yanovsky V., Bulanov S., Thomas A., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., “Stimulated Raman side scattering in laser wakefield acceleration”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 105, 2010.
Matsuoka T., Kneip S., McGuffey C., Palmer C., Schreiber J., Huntington C., Horovitz Y., Dollar F., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., Thomas A., Yanovsky V., Ta Phuoc K., Mangles S., Najmudin Z., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., “Synchrotron x-ray radiation from laser wakefield accelerated electron beams in a plasma channel”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 244, 2010.
Dollar F., Matsuoka T., McGuffey C., Bulanov S., Chvykov V., Davis J., Kalintchenko G., Petrov G., Thomas A., Willingale L., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., “Narrow energy spread protons and ions from high-intensity, high-contrast laser solid target interactions”, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1299, pp. 710-714, 2010.
Kneip S., Mcguffey C., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Kalintchenko G., Maksimchuk T., Mangles S., Matsuoka T., Nagel S., Palmer C., Schreiber J., Ta Phuoc K., Thomas A., Krushelnick K., Najmudin Z., “Synchrotron radiation from a laser plasma accelerator in the bubble regime”, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1299, pp. 185-190, 2010.
Krushelnick K., McGuffey C., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Kalintchenko G., Maksimchuk A., Matsuoka T., Schumaker W., Thomas A., Yanovsky V., “Electron acceleration experiments using the hercules laser system at the University of Michigan”, IPAC 2010 - 1st International Particle Accelerator Conference, pp. 4074-4076, 2010.
McGuffey C., Schumaker W., Kneip S., Matsuoka T., Bychenkov V., Glazyrin I., Karpeev A., Dollar F., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., Yanovsky V., Thomas A., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., “Effects of ionization in a laser wakefield accelerator”, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1299, pp. 144-149, 2010.
Litzenberg D., Dollar F., Bulanov S., Brantov A., Bychenkov V., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., Matsuoka T., Mcguffey C., Yanovsky V., Krushelnick K., Maksimchuk A., “SU‐GG‐T‐462: Observation of Quasi‐Monoenergetic Laser Accelerated Proton and Carbon Beams”, Medical Physics, vol. 37, pp. 3293, 2010.
Maksimchuk A., Bulanov S.S., Brantov A., Yu Bychenkov V., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Litzenberg D., Kalintchenko G., Matsuoka T., Reed S., Yanovsky V., Krushelnick K., “Control of proton energy in ultra-high intensity laser-matter interaction”, Journal of Physics: Conference Series, vol. 244, 2010.
Kneip S., McGuffey C., Nagel S.R., Palmer C., Bellei C., Schreiber J., Huntington C., Dollar F., Matsuoka T., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Phuoc K.T., Mangles S.P.D., Krushelnick K., Najmudin Z., “Comparative study of betatron radiation from laser-wakefield and direct-laser accelerated bunches of relativistic electrons”, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 7359, 2009.
Matsuoka T., McGuffey C., Huntington C.M., Horovitz Y., Dollar F., Bulanov S.S., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., Reed S., Rousseau P., Yanovsky V., Levin M., Zigler A., Drake R.P., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., “Laser wakefield acceleration experiments at the university of Michigan”, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1086, pp. 184-189, 2009.
Mangles S.P.D., Kneip S., McGuffey C., Bulanov S.S., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Horovitz Y., Huntington C., Kalintchenko G., Maksimchuk A., Matsuoka T., Palmer C., Ta Phuoc K., Rousseau P., Yanovsky V., Krushelnick K., Najmudin Z., “Coherent betatron radiation from laser-wakefield accelerated bunches of monoenergetic electrons”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2009.
Matsuoka T., McGuffey C., Horovitz Y., Dollar F., Bulanov S., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., Rousseau P., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., “Laser wakefield acceleration experiments using HERCULES laser”, AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 1153, pp. 182-188, 2009.
Mangles S., Kneip S., McGuffey C., Bulanov S., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Horovitz Y., Huntington C., Kalintchenko G., Maksimchuk A., Matsuoka T., Palmer C., Ta Phuoc K., Rousseau P., Yanovsky V., Krushelnick K., Najmudin Z., “Coherent betatron radiation from laser-wakefield accelerated bunches of monoenergetic electrons”, 2009 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2009 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, CLEO/QELS 2009, 2009.
Mangles S.P.D., Kneip S., McGuffey C., Bulanov S.S., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Horovitz Y., Huntington C., Kalintchenko G., Maksimchuk A., Matsuoka T., Palmer C., Ta Phuoc K., Rousseau P., Yanovsky V., Krushelnick K., Najmudin Z., “Coherent betatron radiation from laser-wakefield accelerated bunches of monoenergetic electrons”, Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2009.
Litzenberg D., Bulanov S.S., Chvykov V., Brantov A., Bychenkov V., Kalintchenko G., Matsuoka T., Dollar F., Rousseau P., Reed S., Yanovsky V., Krushelnick K., Maksimchuk A., “MO‐EE‐A2‐05: Experimental Implementation of the Directed Coulomb Explosion Regime of Laser‐Proton Acceleration”, Medical Physics, vol. 36, pp. 2703, 2009.
Bajt S., Chapman H.N., Spiller E., Hau-Riege S., Alameda J., Nelson A.J., Walton C.C., Kjornrattanawanich B., Aquila A., Dollar F., Gullikson E., Tarrio C., Grantham S., “Multilayers for next generation x-ray sources”, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 6586, 2007.
Aquila A., Salmassi F., Dollar F., Liu Y., Gullikson E., “Developments in realistic design for aperiodic Mo/Si multilayer mirrors”, Optics Express, vol. 14, pp. 10073-10077, 2006.
Soufli R., Windt D., Robinson J., Baker S., Spiller E., Dollar F., Aquila A., Gullikson E., Kjornrattanawanich B., Seely J., Golub L., “Development and testing of EUV multilayer coatings for the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory”, Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 5901, pp. 1-11, 2005.
Soufli R., Baker S., Ratti S., Robinson J., Bajt S., Alameda J., Spiller E., Taylor J., Gullikson E., Dollar F., Aquila A., Bristol R., “Substrate smoothing for high-temperature condenser operation in EUVL source environments”, Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5751, pp. 140-145, 2005.

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Most Cited Publications

Kneip S., McGuffey C., Martins J.L., Martins S.F., Bellei C., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Fonseca R., Huntington C., Kalintchenko G., Maksimchuk A., Mangles S.P.D., Matsuoka T., Nagel S.R., Palmer C.A.J., Schreiber J., Phuoc K.T., Thomas A.G.R., Yanovsky V., Silva L.O., Krushelnick K., Najmudin Z., “Bright spatially coherent synchrotron X-rays from a table-top source”, Nature Physics, vol. 6, pp. 980-983, 2010.
McGuffey C., Thomas A., Schumaker W., Matsuoka T., Chvykov V., Dollar F., Kalintchenko G., Yanovsky V., Maksimchuk A., Krushelnick K., Bychenkov V., Glazyrin I., Karpeev A., “Ionization induced trapping in a laser wakefield accelerator”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 104, 2010.
Fan T., Grychtol P., Knut R., Hernández-García C., Hickstein D.D., Zusin D., Gentry C., Dollar F.J., Mancuso C.A., Hogle C.W., Kfir O., Legut D., Carva K., Ellis J.L., Dorney K.M., Chen C., Shpyrko O.G., Fullerton E.E., Cohen O., Oppeneer P.M., Miloševic D.B., Becker A., Jaron-Becker A.A., Popmintchev T., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., “Bright circularly polarized soft X-ray high harmonics for X-ray magnetic circular dichroism”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 112, pp. 14206-14211, 2015.
Hickstein D.D., Dollar F.J., Grychtol P., Ellis J.L., Knut R., Hernandez-Garcia C., Zusin D., Gentry C., Shaw J.M., Fan T., Dorney K.M., Becker A., Jaron-Becker A., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., Durfee C.G., “Non-collinear generation of angularly isolated circularly polarized high harmonics”, Nature Photonics, vol. 9, pp. 743-750, 2015.
Popmintchev D., Hernández-García C., Dollar F., Mancuso C., Pérez-Hernández J.A., Chen M.C., Hankla A., Gao X., Shim B., Gaeta A.L., Tarazkar M., Romanov D.A., Levis R.J., Gaffney J.A., Foord M., Libby S.B., Jaron-Becker A., Becker A., Plaja L., Murnane M.M., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., “Ultraviolet surprise: Efficient soft X-ray high-harmonic generation in multiply ionized plasmas”, Science, vol. 350, pp. 1225-1231, 2015.
Mancuso C.A., Hickstein D.D., Grychtol P., Knut R., Kfir O., Tong X.M., Dollar F., Zusin D., Gopalakrishnan M., Gentry C., Turgut E., Ellis J.L., Chen M.C., Fleischer A., Cohen O., Kapteyn H.C., Murnane M.M., “Strong-field ionization with two-color circularly polarized laser fields”, Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 91, 2015.
Chen M., Mancuso C., Hernańdez-García C., Dollar F., Galloway B., Popmintchev D., Huang P., Walker B., Plaja L., Jaroń-Becker A., Becker A., Murnane M., Kapteyn H., Popmintchev T., “Generation of bright isolated attosecond soft X-ray pulses driven by multicycle midinfrared lasers”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 111, 2014.
Kneip S., McGuffey C., Dollar F., Bloom M., Chvykov V., Kalintchenko G., Krushelnick K., Maksimchuk A., Mangles S., Matsuoka T., Najmudin Z., Palmer C., Schreiber J., Schumaker W., Thomas A., Yanovsky V., “X-ray phase contrast imaging of biological specimens with femtosecond pulses of betatron radiation from a compact laser plasma wakefield accelerator”, Applied Physics Letters, vol. 99, 2011.
Mancuso C., Dorney K., Hickstein D., Chaloupka J., Ellis J., Dollar F., Knut R., Grychtol P., Zusin D., Gentry C., Gopalakrishnan M., Kapteyn H., Murnane M., “Controlling Nonsequential Double Ionization in Two-Color Circularly Polarized Femtosecond Laser Fields”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 117, 2016.
Popmintchev D., Galloway B.R., Chen M.C., Dollar F., Mancuso C.A., Hankla A., Miaja-Avila L., O'Neil G., Shaw J.M., Fan G., Ališauskas S., Andriukaitis G., Balčiunas T., Mücke O.D., Pugzlys A., Baltuška A., Kapteyn H.C., Popmintchev T., Murnane M.M., “Near- and Extended-Edge X-Ray-Absorption Fine-Structure Spectroscopy Using Ultrafast Coherent High-Order Harmonic Supercontinua”, Physical Review Letters, vol. 120, 2018.

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Email: fdollar@uci.edu

Phone: (949) 414 7110

Address: 4174 Frederick Reines Hall – Irvine, CA 92697-4575

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