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Student Name	Graduation Date	Thesis
Dana Tovey	September 2021	A Compact CO2 Amplifier Optically Pumped by a Tunable 4.3 μm Fe:ZnSe Laser
Chen-Kang Huang	December 2020	Transient Plasma Effects in Optical-field Ionized Helium Gas
Jeremy Pigeon	October 2017	Four-wave Mixing of Gigawatt power, Long-wave Infrared Radiation in Gases and Semiconductors
Navid Vafaei	August 2016	Experimental Investigations of Beam Driven Plasma Wakefield Accelerators
Jessica Shaw	July 2016	Direct Laser Acceleration in Laser Wakefield Accelerators
Chao Gong	June 2015	Optical Probing of CO2 Laser-Plasma Interactions at Near Critical Density
Dan Haberberger	June 2012	Shock Wave Acceleration of Monoenergetic Protons using a Multi-Terawatt CO2 Laser
Arthur Pak	September 2010	Injection of Tunnel Ionized Electrons into Laser-Produced Wakes
Tyan-Lin Wang	August 2010	Amplification of Short Laser Pulses via Resonant Energy Transfer in Underdense Thermal Plasmas
Joseph Ralph	March 2009	Self-Guiding of Relativistically-Intense Ultrashort Laser Pulses in Underdense Plasmas
Chieh Sung	June 2008	Interaction of a Relativistic Electron Beam with Radiation in the THz Frequency Range
Fang Fang	March 2008	Some Non-linear Aspects of Ultra-intense, Laser-Plasma Interactions
Devon Johnson	June 2006	Positron Production by X-rays Emitted from Betatron Motion in a Plasma Wiggler
Ritesh Narang	December 2003	Acceleration of Electrons using Relativistic Plasma Waves
Catalin Filip	December 2003	Resonant and Non-Resonant Beat-Wave Excitation of Relativistic Plasma Waves
Brent Blue	March 2003	Plasma Wakefield Acceleration of an Intense Positron Beam
Shuoqin Wang	June 2002	X-ray synchrotron radiation in a plasma wiggler
Daniel Gordon	June 1999	Resonant Laser Plasma Interactions and Electron Acceleration
Kenneth Wharton	October 1998	Laser-Plasma Interactions Relevant to Inertial Confinement Fusion
Amit Lal	December 1996	Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Relativistic Plasma Beat Waves
Robert Brogle	December 1996	Studies of Linear and Nonlinear Photoemission Processes in Metals and Semiconductors
Pepe Davis	June 1996	Plasma Lenses for Relativistic Electron Beams
Matthew Everett	December 1994	The Physics of Beat Excited Plasmas
Ronald Williams	September 1992	Interactions of Relativistic Electrons with Relativistic Plasma Waves
Richard Savage	September 1992	Frequency Upshifting of Electromagnetic Radiation via an Underdense Relativistic Ionization Front
Youichi Sakawa	March 1992	Excitation and Nonlinear Evolution of the Modified Simon-Hoh Instability in an Electron Beam Produced Plasma Column
Wim Leemans	September 1991	Topics in High Intensity Laser Plasma Interaction
Donald Umstadter	September 1987	Nonlinear Behavior of Electron Plasma Wave Driven by Stimulated Raman Backscattering
Warren Mori	March 1987	Theory and Simulations on Beat Wave Excitation of Relativistic Plasma Waves
Chris Darrow	December 1986	Electrostatic Mode Coupling of Beat Excited Electron Plasma Waves
Humberto Figueroa	September 1986	Investigations of Stimulated Raman Scattering from High Density Underdense Plasmas Irradiated by a 0.35 Micron Laser

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