PENGQIAN WANG

Professor of Physics

Department of Physics

Western Illinois University

Macomb, IL 61455

Phone: (309)298-2541

Fax: (309)298-2850
Email: p-wang@wiu.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.wiu.edu/p-wang

Research Interests

My research interests are in theoretical and experimental AMO physics, especially in the following areas:

· Optical pulse propagation in birefringent crystals

· Ray tracing in birefringent crystals

· Conoscopy of anisotropic optical materials

· Electronic structure theory of molecules

· Dynamics of molecules in ultrafast intense laser fields

· Spectroscopy of biomolecules and their clusters

· Electron impact dissociative ionization of molecules

Education

· Ph.D. – Department of Physics, Peking University, China, 1998.

· B. S. – Department of Physics, Peking University, China, 1992.

Postdoctoral experiences

· 2003.8- 2006.8 Research Associate

J. R. Macdonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University

Molecular dynamics in intense ultrashort laser pulses and in collision processes.

· 2002.8-2003.7 Postdoctoral Researcher

Institute for Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany

High-resolution ultraviolet spectroscopy of biomolecules and their clusters.

· 2001.2-2002.7 Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellow

Laboratory Astrophysics, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Germany

Dissociation dynamics of multiply ionized molecules due to electron impact.

· 1998.9-2000.8 Postdoctoral Researcher

Laser Technology Laboratory, RIKEN (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research), Japan

Generation and characterization of ultrashort femtosecond laser pulses.

Selected Publications (Full LIST)

1. “Polarization-dependent group velocity of light pulses traveling in the optic ray axis directions of a biaxial crystal”.

P. Q. Wang, Optics Letters 47, 2338-2341(2022).

2. “Non-refracted extraordinary rays in a uniaxial crystal”.

P. Q. Wang, Applied Optics 58, 883-891(2019).

3. “Visualizing the conoscopic isochromatic interference fringes in anisotropic crystals by spinning polarizer and analyzer”.

P. Q. Wang, Optics Letters 37, 4392-4394 (2012).

4. “Dissociation of H₂⁺ in intense femtosecond laser fields studied by coincidence three-dimensional momentum imaging".

P. Q. Wang, A. M. Sayler, K. D. Carnes, J. F. Xia, M. A. Smith, B. D. Esry, and I. Ben-Itzhak, Physical Review A 74, 043411 (2006).

5. “Dissociation of multiply ionized alkanes from methane to n-butane due to electron impact”.

P. Q. Wang, and C. R. Vidal, Chemical Physics 280, 309-329 (2002).