PENGQIAN WANG

Bonn-Wang-01

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:

 

·       Light propagation in anisotropic crystals

·       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 *

1.     “Inverted zones in the axial regions on the group velocity surface of a biaxial crystal”.

P. Q. Wang, Optics Letters 49, 7226-7229 (2024).

2.     “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).

3.     “Asymmetry of the group velocity of light in monoclinic crystals”.

P. Q. Wang, Optics Letters 46, 1425-1428 (2021).

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

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