Cao Wei

Academic Degrees

Ph.D. degree in Physics, Kansas State University, USA, 2014.

Ph.D. degree in Physical Electronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2009.

Professional Experience

2017-present: Professor, the School of physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.

2014-2017: Postdoc Fellow, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.

Selected Publications

1. "Attosecond transient absorption of argon atoms in the vacuum ultraviolet region: line energy shifts versus coherent population transfer"W. Cao, E R Warrick, D M Neumark, and S R Leone, 2016 New J Phys. 18, 013041

2. "Near-resonant four-wave mixing of attosecond extreme-ultraviolet pulses with near-infrared pulses in neon: Detection of electronic coherences"W. Cao, E R Warrick, D S R Leone and M Neumark, 2016 Phys. Rev. A 94, 021802(R)

3. "Noncollinear wave mixing of attosecond XUV and few-cycle optical laser pulses in gas-phase atoms: Toward multidimensional spectroscopy involving XUV excitations "W. Cao, E R Warrick, M Neumark and S R Leone, 2016 Phys. Rev. A 94, 053846

4. "Identification of a Previously Unobserved Dissociative Ionization Pathway in Time-Resolved Photospectroscopy of the Deuterium Molecule"W. Cao, G. Laurent, , I. Ben-Itzhak, and C. L. Cocke, 2015 Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 113001

5. “Attosecond pulse characterization”, G. Laurent,W. Cao, I. Ben-Itzhak, and C. L. Cocke, 2013, Opt. Express 21, 16914

6. “Spectral splitting and quantum path study of high-harmonic generation from a semi-infinite gas cell”,W. Cao, G. Laurent, Ch. Jin, H. Li, Z Wang, C. D. Lin, I. Ben-Itzhak, and C. L. Cocke, 2012 J. Phys. B 45, 074013

7. “Attosecond control of orbital parity mix interferences and the relative phase of even and odd harmonics in an attosecond pulse train”, G. Laurent,W. Cao, H. Li, Z. Wang, I. Ben-Itzhak, and C. L. Cocke, 2012 Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 083001

8. “Dynamic modification of the fragmentation of autoionizing states of O2+”,W. Cao, G. Laurent, S. De, M. Schöffler, T. Jahnke, A. S. Alnaser, I. A. Bocharova, C. Stuck, D. Ray, M. F. Kling, I. Ben-Itzhak, Th. Weber, A. L. Landers, A. Belkacem, R. Dörner, A. E. Orel, T. N. Rescigno, and C. L. Cocke, 2011 Phys. Rev. A 84, 053406

9. “Dynamic modification of the fragmentation of COq+ excited states generated with high-order harmonics”,W. Cao, S. De, K. P. Singh, S. Chen, M. S. Schöffler, A. S. Alnaser, I. A. Bocharova, G. Laurent, D. Ray, S. Zherebtsov, M. F. Kling, I. Ben-Itzhak, I. V. Litvinyuk, A. Belkacem, T. Osipov, T. Rescigno, and C. L. Cocke, 2010 Phys. Rev. A 82, 043410

10. “Control of Electron Localization in Deuterium Molecular Ions using an Attosecond Pulse Train and a Many-Cycle Infrared”, K. P. Singh, F. He, P. Ranitovic,W. Cao,S. De, D. Ray, S. Chen, U. Thumm, A. Becker, M. M. Murnane, H. C. Kapteyn, I. V. Litvinyuk, and C. L. Cocke, 2010, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 023001

11. “Ion-energy dependence of asymmetric dissociation of D2 by a two-color laser field”, D. Ray, F. He, S. De,W. Cao, H. Mashiko, P. Ranitovic, K. P. Singh, I. Znakovskaya, U. Thumm, G. G. Paulus, M. F. Kling, I. V. Litvinyuk, and C. L. Cocke, 2009 Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 223201

12. “Attosecond interference control of XUV photoionization”, W. Cao, P Lu, P Lan, Y Li, and X Wang, 2008 J. Phys. B 41, 085601

13. “Efficient isolated attosecond pulse generation with a multi-cycle two-color field ”,W. Cao, P. Lu, P. Lan, X. Wang, and G Yang, 2007 Opt. Express 15, 530

14. “Control of quantum paths of high harmonics via a ω+3ωbichromatic field”,W. Cao,P. Lan, P. Lu, W. Hong, and X. Wang, 2007 J. Phys. B 40, 869

15. “Control of the launch of attosecond pulses”,W. Cao, P Lu, P Lan, X Wang, and Y Li 2007, Phys. Rev. A 75, 063423

16. “Single attosecond pulse generation with an intense multi-cycle driving pulse”,W. Cao, P. Lu, P. Lan, X. Wang, and G Yang, 2006 Phys. Rev. A 74, 063821

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