Center for Algorithmic and Robotized Synthesis

Professor Kyung Taec Kim began his distinguished research career by earning both his Master's and Ph.D. degrees at KAIST, under the mentorship of Professor Chang Hee Nam. During his graduate studies, he pioneered the use of x-ray filters for attosecond pulse compression. After completing his Ph.D., Professor Kim contributed significantly to the establishment of the PW laser facility at the Advanced Photonics Research Institute (APRI) of the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in Korea. In 2010, he joined the joint attosecond science laboratory led by Paul Corkum at the National Research Council and the University of Ottawa in Canada. There, he developed innovative optical techniques for measuring the space-time coupling of attosecond pulses and sampling arbitrary optical waveforms of light pulses. His research also led to the demonstration of the attosecond lighthouse method. More recently, Professor Kim discovered a new type of EUV radiation generated through frustrated tunneling and developed the Tunneling Ionization with a Perturbation for the Time-domain Observation of an Electric Field (TIPTOE) method for pulse characterization. Currently, Professor Kim is a full professor in the Department of Physics and Photon Science at GIST, where he also serves as the Director of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), leading the Center for Relativistic Laser Science (CoReLS) in Korea.

• 1Yang Hwan Kim, Hyeon Kim, Seong Cheol Park, Yongjin Kwon, Kyunghoon Yeom, Wosik Cho, Taeyong Kwon, Hyeok Yun, Jae Hee Sung, Seong Ku Lee, Tran Trung Luu, Chang Hee Nam & Kyung Taec Kim, “High-harmonic generation from a flat liquid-sheet plasma mirror,” Nat. Commun. 14, 2328 (19 May 2023).
• 2Hyeok Yun, Je Hoi Mun, Sung In Hwang, Seung Beom Park, Igor A. Ivanov, Chang Hee Nam, and Kyung Taec Kim, “Coherent extreme-ultraviolet emission generated through frustrated tunneling ionization,” Nature Photonics 12, 620-625 (September 2018).
• 3Seung Beom Park, Kyungseung Kim, Wosik Cho, Sung In Hwang, Igor Ivanov, Chang Hee Nam and Kyung Taec Kim, “Direct Sampling of a light wave in air”, Optica 5, 402 (April 2018).
• 4E. Balogh, C. Zhang, T. Ruchon, J. Hergott, F. Quere, P. Corkum, C. H. Nam and K. T. Kim, “Dynamic wavefront rotation in attosecond lighthouse”, Optica 4, 48-53 (January 2017).
• 5Kyung Taec Kim, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum, “Manipulating Quantum Paths for novel attosecond measurement methods”, Nature Photonics 8, 187-194 (February 2014).
• 6Kyung Taec Kim, Chunmei Zhang, Andrew D. Shiner, Bruno Schmidt, François légaré, D. M. Villeneuve, and P. B. Corkum, “PHz optical oscilloscope”, Nature Photonics 7, 958-962 (November 2013).
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  Kyung Taec Kim, Chunmei Zhang, Thierry Ruchon, Jean-François Hergott, Thierry Auguste, D. M. Villeneuve, P. B. Corkum, and Fabien Quéré, “Photonic Streaking of Attosecond Pulse Trains”, Nature Photonics 7, 651-656 (July 2013).

  * This work has been selected as a cover image of Nature Photonics August 2013 issue.

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  Kyung Taec Kim, Chunmei Zhang, Andrew D. Shiner, Sean E. Kirkwood, Eugene Frumker, Genevieve Gariepy, Andrei Naumov, D. M. Villeneuve & P. B. Corkum, “Manipulating Quantum Paths for Space-time Characterization of Attosecond Pulses”, Nature Physics 9, 159-163 (January 2013).

  * This work has been selected as a cover image of Nature Physics March 2013 issue.

  * This work has been highlighted by Nature Photonics. Rachel Won, “Space–time characterization”, Nature Photonics 7, 263 (2013), doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.88.

• 9Kyung Taec Kim, Dong Hyuk Ko, Juyun Park, Nark Nyul Choi, Chul Min Kim, Kenichi L. Ishikawa, Jongmin Lee and Chang Hee Nam, “Amplitude and Phase Reconstruction of Electron Wave Packets for Probing Ultrafast Photoionization Dynamics,” Phys. Rev. Lett., 108, 093001 (February 2012).
• 10Kyung Taec Kim, Kyung Sik Kang, Mi Na Park, Tayyab Imran, G. Umesh, and Chang Hee Nam, “Self-compression of attosecond high-order harmonic pulses,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 223904 (November 2007).