Vinod Kumarappan

• Phone: 785-532-1632
• e-mail: vinod@phys.ksu.edu

Please visit the Physics Department for teaching and class information.

Recent Publications:

• "Aligning molecules with long or short laser pulses"
  V. Kumarappan, S. S. Viftrup, L. Holmegaard, C. Z. Bisgaard, H. Stapelfeldt
  Phys. Scr. 76, C63-C68 (2007)
• "Control of rotational wave-packet dynamics in asymmetric top molecules"
  Lotte Holmegaard, Simon S. Viftrup, Vinod Kumarappan, Christer Z. Bisgaard, Henrik Stapelfeldt, Edward Hamilton, Tamar Seideman
  Phys. Rev. A 75, 051403 (2007)
• "High-resolution x-ray spectromicroscopy observations of 1 MeV ions under far from relativistic laser beam channeling in N₂O clusters"
  A. Y. Faenov, A. I. Magunov, T. A. Pikuz, I. Y. Skobelev, K. Y. Kim, V. Kumarappan, H. M. Milchberg
  Proc. SPIE 5975, 597502 (2006)
• "Role of rotational temperature in adiabatic molecular alignment"
  V. Kumarappan, C. Z. Bisgaard, S. S. Viftrup, L. Holmegaard, H. Stapelfeldt
  J. Chem. Phys. 125, 194309 (2006)
• "Guiding of intense laser pulses in plasma waveguides produced from efficient, femtosecond end-pumped heating of clustered gases"
  Kumarappan V, Kim KY, Milchberg HM
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 205004 (2005)
• "Plasma waveguides efficiently generated by Bessel beams in elongated cluster gas jets"
  Sheng H, Kim KY, Kumarappan V, Layer BD, Milchberg HM
  Phys. Rev. E 72, 036411 (2005)
• "Spectral redshifts in the intense laser-cluster interaction"
  K. Y. Kim, I. Alexeev, T. M. Antonsen, A. Gupta, V. Kumarappan, H. M. Milchberg
  Phys. Rev. A 71, 011201 (2005)