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Josef KRÁSA

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Education, degrees

  • 1969 – University degree in Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague
  • 1976 – PhD degree in plasma physics, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences

Research experience

    Experimental plasma physics research on wave phenomena in weakly ionized plasmas, with emphasis on the onset of unstable striations and the transition to turbulent wave motion. Following the start of a new research program in the department, work was begun on the design and optimization of two new iodine laser amplifiers, with active diameters of 50 and 100 mm. When the laser started to be used for routine experimental work he was involved in the diagnostics of highly charged ions emitted from laser-produced plasmas and X-rays. He stayed at JR McDonald Laboratory, Department of Physics, Kansas State University working in absolute calibration of ion detectors and in ion-surface interaction. He participates in a collaboration established by the Institute of Physics ASCR in 1999 with the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Catania, Italy, and the Institute of Plasma Physics and Laser Microfusion, Warsaw. The aim of this collaboration is to obtain an intense pulsed beam of highly charged ions by coupling a laser ion source (LIS) to an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) ion source. At present, he is in charge of Prague Asterix Laser System (PALS) operation and development.