Matthew Edwards

Matthew Edwards is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. He received BSE, MA, and PhD degrees from Princeton University in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Before joining Stanford, he was a Lawrence Fellow in the National Ignition Facility and Photon Science Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.His group studies plasma optics, relativistic laser-matter interactions, laser-based radiation and particle sources, and fundamental plasma physics.

Featured Publications:

1. Control of intense light with avalanche-ionization plasma gratings
M.R. Edwards, S. Waczynski, E. Rockafellow, L. Manzo, A. Zingale, P. Michel, and H.M. Milchberg, Optica, 10, 12 (2023).

doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.503283

2. Holographic plasma lenses
M.R. Edwards, V.R. Munirov, A. Singh, N. Fasano, E. Kur, N. Lemos, J.M. Mikhailova, J.S. Wurtele, and P. Michel, Physical Review Letters 128, 065003 (2022).

doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.065003

3. Plasma transmission gratings for compression of high-intensity laser pulses
M.R. Edwards and P. Michel, Physical Review Applied, 18, 024026 (2022).

doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.18.024026

4. Electron-nanobunch-width-dominated spectral power law for relativistic harmonic generation from ultra-thin foils
M.R. Edwards, N.M. Fasano, and J.M. Mikhailova, Physical Review Letters, 124, 185004 (2020).

doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.185004

5. A multi-terawatt two-color beam for high-power field-controlled nonlinear optics
M.R. Edwards, N.M. Fasano, T. Bennett, A. Griffith, N. Turley, B.M. O’Brien, and J.M. Mikhailova, OpticsLetters, 45, 23 (2020).

doi.org/10.1364/OL.403806

6. Laser amplification in strongly magnetized plasma
M.R. Edwards, Y. Shi, J.M. Mikhailova, and N.J. Fisch, Physical Review Letters, 123, 025001 (2019).

doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.025001