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Tenio Popmintchev

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Tenio Popmintchev
Bornjune 29, 1977 [1]
Stara Zagora, Bulgaria
🎓 Alma materSofia University (BS)
University of Colorado Boulder (PhD)
💼 Occupation
Known forEUV - X-ray lasers, High-harmonic generation, Attosecond and zeptosecond X-ray pulses
🏅 AwardsSloan Foundation Research Fellowship (2018)
European Research Council Starting Grant (ERC 2017)
SN 10 Outstanding Young Scientist Award (2016)
Presidential Medal from Bulgaria (2016)
Pythagoras Award for Outstanding Young Scientist (2016)
TOYP 2015 The Outstanding Young Persons of Bulgaria (2015)
Finalist, Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Research Award (2011)

Tenio Popmintchev (Теньо Попминчев) is a Bulgarian-American physicist specializing in ultrafast lasers and coherent EUV - X-ray science. He is an assistant professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he leads the Popmintchev LABS focused on quantum X-ray technology.[2][3] Popmintchev is known for his pioneering work in developing tabletop X-ray lasers capable of generating coherent extreme ultraviolet (EUV) and soft-to-hard X-rays, enabling attosecond imaging of quantum systems.[4][5][6] His research has applications in imaging advanced quantum materials, EUV lithography metrology, and ultrafast spectroscopies, pushing the boundaries from attosecond to zeptosecond timescales.[7][3][8]

Early life and education

Popmintchev was born in Bulgaria.[4] He participated in the International Physics Olympiads in China and Norway.[9] He earned his undergraduate degree in Quantum Electronics and Laser Physics from Sofia University, Bulgaria.[10] In 2003, he moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies. He received his Ph.D. in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2010.[2][4]

Career

Following his Ph.D., Popmintchev served as a postdoctoral fellow and later as a research professor at JILA, a joint institute between the University of Colorado Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).[11][12][13]

He joined the faculty at UCSD as an assistant professor in the Department of Physics and the Center for Advanced Nanoscience.[2][7][14] He also holds an affiliation with the TU Wien (Technical University of Vienna) in Austria.[15]

Research

Popmintchev's research centers on quantum X-ray science and technology, including the development of coherent X-ray sources with tunable classical and quantum properties for ultrafast imaging and spectroscopies of atomic, molecular systems, and quantum nanomaterials.[3] His work includes study on high harmonic generation and has developed techniques on generating bright coherent ultrahigh harmonics in the keV X-ray regime using mid-infrared femtosecond lasers.[5]

In the field of extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV), he has developed applications for femtosecond dynamic imaging, and X-ray coherent diffractive imaging.[2] In X-ray laser technology, Popmintchev has developed tabletop EUV which are compact, aberration-free spectrometers and monochromators for EUV-soft X-ray applications.[2][4] He has achieved attosecond and zeptosecond pulses using "combs" and "rainbows", with applications for 5D imaging of quantum nano systems, including coherent X-rays with orbital and spin angular momentum.[7][16][6]

His laboratories, Popmintchev LABS, focus on X-ray combs for ultrafast imaging, quantum design of coherent X-rays, and the zeptosecond hard X-ray frontier.[3][17][14] Popmintchev has co-authored numerous high-impact publications, including in Science, Physical Review Letters, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, with collaborations across institutions.[5][16]

Awards and honors

Popmintchev has received awards for his work or contributions to physics:

Selected publications

  • Popmintchev, Tenio; Chen, Ming-Chang; Popmintchev, Dimitar; Arpin, Paul; Brown, Susannah; Ališauskas, Skirmantas; Andriukaitis, Giedrius; Balčiunas, Tadas; Mücke, Oliver D.; Pugzlys, Audrius; Baltuška, Andrius; Shim, Bonggu; Schrauth, Samuel E.; Gaeta, Alexander; Hernández-García, Carlos; Plaja, Luis; Becker, Andreas; Jaron-Becker, Agnieszka; Murnane, Margaret M.; Kapteyn, Henry C. (2012). "Bright Coherent Ultrahigh Harmonics in the keV X-ray Regime from Mid-Infrared Femtosecond Lasers". Science. 336 (6086): 1287–1291. arXiv:2403.19535. doi:10.1126/science.1218497. PMID 22679093.
  • Popmintchev, Tenio; Chen, Ming-Chang; Arpin, Paul; Murnane, Margaret M.; Kapteyn, Henry C. (2010). "The attosecond nonlinear optics of bright coherent X-ray generation". Nature Photonics. 4 (12): 822–832. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2010.256.
  • Kfir, Ofer; Grychtol, Patrik; Turgut, Emrah; Knut, Ronny; Zusin, Dmitriy; Popmintchev, Dimitar; Popmintchev, Tenio; Nembach, Hans; Shaw, Justin M.; Fleischer, Avner; Kapteyn, Henry; Murnane, Margaret; Cohen, Oren (2015). "Generation of bright phase-matched circularly-polarized extreme ultraviolet high harmonics". Nature Photonics. 9 (2): 99–105. arXiv:1401.4101. doi:10.1038/nphoton.2014.293.
  • Andriukaitis, Giedrius; Balčiūnas, Tadas; Ališauskas, Skirmantas; Pugžlys, Audrius; Baltuška, Andrius; Popmintchev, Tenio; Chen, Ming-Chang; Murnane, Margaret M.; Kapteyn, Henry C. (2011). "90 GW peak power few-cycle mid-infrared pulses from an optical parametric amplifier". Optics Letters. 36 (15): 2755–2757. doi:10.1364/OL.36.002755. PMID 21808302.
  • Popmintchev, Tenio; Chen, Ming-Chang; Bahabad, Alon; Gerrity, Michael; Sidorenko, Pavel; Cohen, Oren; Christov, Ivan P.; Murnane, Margaret M.; Kapteyn, Henry C. (2009). "Phase matching of high harmonic generation in the soft and hard X-ray regions of the spectrum". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (26): 10516–10521. arXiv:2404.01325. doi:10.1073/pnas.0903748106. PMID 19541611.
  • Chen, M.-C.; Arpin, P.; Popmintchev, T.; Gerrity, M.; Zhang, B.; Seaberg, M.; Popmintchev, D.; Murnane, M. M.; Kapteyn, H. C. (2010). "Bright, Coherent, Ultrafast Soft X-Ray Harmonics Spanning the Water Window from a Tabletop Light Source". Physical Review Letters. 105 (17). arXiv:1006.3942. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.173901. PMID 21231046. Unknown parameter |article-number= ignored (help)
  • Fan, Tingting; Grychtol, Patrik; Knut, Ronny; Hernández-García, Carlos; Hickstein, Daniel D.; Zusin, Dmitriy; Gentry, Christian; Dollar, Franklin J.; Mancuso, Christopher A.; Hogle, Craig W.; Kfir, Ofer; Legut, Dominik; Carva, Karel; Ellis, Jennifer L.; Dorney, Kevin M.; Chen, Cong; Shpyrko, Oleg G.; Fullerton, Eric E.; Cohen, Oren; Oppeneer, Peter M.; Milošević, Dejan B.; Becker, Andreas; Jaroń-Becker, Agnieszka A.; Popmintchev, Tenio; Murnane, Margaret M.; Kapteyn, Henry C. (2015). "Bright circularly polarized soft X-ray high harmonics for X-ray magnetic circular dichroism". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112 (46): 14206–14211. doi:10.1073/pnas.1519666112. PMID 26534992.
  • Zhang, Xiaoshi; Lytle, Amy L.; Popmintchev, Tenio; Zhou, Xibin; Kapteyn, Henry C.; Murnane, Margaret M.; Cohen, Oren (2007). "Quasi-phase-matching and quantum-path control of high-harmonic generation using counterpropagating light". Nature Physics. 3 (4): 270–275. doi:10.1038/nphys541.
  • Wagner, Nicholas L.; Wüest, Andrea; Christov, Ivan P.; Popmintchev, Tenio; Zhou, Xibin; Murnane, Margaret M.; Kapteyn, Henry C. (2006). "Monitoring molecular dynamics using coherent electrons from high harmonic generation". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (36): 13279–13285. doi:10.1073/pnas.0605178103.
  • Popmintchev, Dimitar; Hernández-García, Carlos; Dollar, Franklin; Mancuso, Christopher; Pérez-Hernández, Jose A.; Chen, Ming-Chang; Hankla, Amelia; Gao, Xiaohui; Shim, Bonggu; Gaeta, Alexander L.; Tarazkar, Maryam; Romanov, Dmitri A.; Levis, Robert J.; Gaffney, Jim A.; Foord, Mark; Libby, Stephen B.; Jaron-Becker, Agnieszka; Becker, Andreas; Plaja, Luis; Murnane, Margaret M.; Kapteyn, Henry C.; Popmintchev, Tenio (2015). "Ultraviolet surprise: Efficient soft x-ray high-harmonic generation in multiply ionized plasmas". Science. 350 (6265): 1225–1231. doi:10.1126/science.aac9755. hdl:10366/147088. PMID 26785483.

References

  1. ↑ "facebook"
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Tenio Popmintchev *UCSD Profiles". profiles.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "PopmintchevLABS – Quantum X-ray Science and Technology". popmintchev.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 "Tenio Popmintchev fits X-ray laser on a tabletop". Science News. 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Tenio Popmintchev *Google Scholar". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "How to make zeptosecond X-ray pulses". Physics World. 2013-07-29. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "Tenio Popmintchev PhD Physics. Coherent Atto-to-Zeptosecond Soft and Hard X-rays for 5D Imaging Professor at University of California San Diego". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Record-Breaking X-Ray Laser Pulses ERC Grant At TU Wien". Photonics Online. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  9. ↑ "Dr. Tenio Popmintchev: "Success follows only total dedication!"". BNR. 2013-06-20. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Tenio Popmintchev" (PDF). uni-sofia.bg. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  11. ↑ "Tenio Popmintchev *University of California, San Diego". ucsd.academia.edu. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  12. ↑ "TEAM *PopmintchevLABS *University of California San Diego". popmintchev.ucsd.edu. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Science News Profiles Tenio Popmintchev". JILA. 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Let There Be Light: Designing Popmintchev LABS at UCSD". Lab Manager. 2020-09-01. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  15. ↑ "TU Wien ERC Project". TU Wien.
  16. ↑ 16.0 16.1 "Tenio Popmintchev *Inspire HEP". inspirehep.net. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  17. ↑ "Tenio Popmintchev *Pinterest". pinterest.com. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  18. ↑ "TOYP България - Най-изявените млади личности на България". toyp.jci.bg (in български). Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  19. ↑ "Младият български учен проф. д-р Теньо Попминчев бе удостоен с Почетен знак на президента на Република България". president.bg (in български). Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  20. ↑ "Pythagoras Prizes for contributions to science for scientists of BAS". bas.bg. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
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  22. ↑ "ERC Starting Grants 2016 List of Principal Investigators" (PDF). erc.europa.eu. 2016-09-07. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  23. ↑ "Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowships 2018" (PDF). sloan.org. 2018-02-15. Retrieved 2026-01-23.
  24. ↑ "Sloan Foundation names its 2018 rising stars of science". universityofcalifornia.edu. 2018-02-28. Retrieved 2026-01-23.


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