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Nonlinear optics, laser and optical physics, interaction of intense electromagnetic fields with atoms, solids, and plasmas; generation and application of coherent and incoherent short wavelength radiation.

• Plasma hydrodynamics of the intense laser-cluster interaction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  H.M. Milchberg, S.J. McNaught, and E. Parra, Phys. Rev. E 64, 056402 (2001).
• A pump-probe investigation of laser-droplet plasma dynamics
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  S. J. McNaught, J. Fan, E. Parra, and H. M. Milchberg, Appl. Phys. Lett. 79, 4100 (2001).
• Characterization of a cryogenic, high-pressure gas jet operated in the droplet regime
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  E. Parra, S.J. McNaught, and H.M. Milchberg, Rev. Sci. Inst. 73, 468 (2002).
• Characterization of a cryogenic, high-pressure gas jet operated in the droplet regime
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  E. Parra, S.J. McNaught, and H.M. Milchberg, Rev. Sci. Inst. 73, 468 (2002).
• Resonant self-trapping of high intensity Bessel beams in under-dense plasmas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  J. Fan, E. Parra, K. Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, H. M. Milchberg, J. Cooley and T.M. Antonsen, Phys. Rev. E 65, 056408 (2002).
• Measurement of the superluminal group velocity of an ultrashort Bessel beam pulse
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I.Alexeev, K.Y. Kim, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 073901 (2002).
• Single-shot supercontinuum spectral interferometry
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  K.Y Kim, I. Alexeev, and H. M. Milchberg, Appl. Phys. Lett. 81, 4124 (2002).
• Single-shot measurement of laser-induced double step ionization of helium
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  K.Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, and H.M. Milchberg, Optics Express 10, 1563 (2002).
• Hydrodynamic timescales for intense laser-heated clusters
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  E. Parra, I. Alexeev, J. Fan, K. Y. Kim, S. J. McNaught, and H.M. Milchberg, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 20, 118 (2003).
• Time-resolved explosion of intense laser-heated clusters
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  K.Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, E. Parra, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 023401 (2003).
• Self-focusing of intense laser pulses in a clustered gas
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I.Alexeev, T. M. Antonsen, K.Y. Kim, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev Lett. 90, 103402 (2003).
• Measurement of the average size and density of clusters in a gas jet
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  K. Y. Kim, V. Kumarappan, and H. M. Milchberg, Appl. Phys. Lett. 83, 3210 (2003).
• Gases of exploding laser-heated cluster nanoplasmas as a nonlinear optical medium
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  K.Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, V. Kumarappan, E. Parra, T. Antonsen, T. Taguchi, A. Gupta, and H.M. Milchberg., Phys. of Plasmas 11, 2882 (2004).
• Resonant heating of a cluster plasma by intense laser light
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  T. Taguchi, T.M. Antonsen, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 205003 (2004).
• Spectral redshifts in the intense laser-cluster interaction
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  K.Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, T.M. Antonsen, A. Gupta, V. Kumarappan, and H.M. Milchberg, Phys. Rev. A 71, R011201 (2005).