Colton Fruhling

Physics and Astronomy · Purdue University West Lafayette

Mid career · publishing since 2016Rising activity

Photonic Crystals and Applications Photonic and Optical Devices Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications 2D Materials and Applications Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research

Publications

Citations

785

Est. group size

~27

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

Publishing since 2016

Research summary

AI-generated

Colton Fruhling works in experimental optics and laser-plasma physics, studying how intense, ultrafast laser pulses interact with matter. This includes generating and measuring extremely short (attosecond- and femtosecond-scale) electron and X-ray pulses, exploring nonlinear light-scattering effects, and investigating new optical materials such as MXenes and time-varying photonic media.

Ultrafast and high-intensity laser-matter interactionsLaser wakefield and electron accelerationNonlinear and Compton/Thomson light scatteringX-ray generation and spectroscopyPhotonic materials and time-varying media

Publication output has grown substantially, rising from just a few papers per year in the late 2010s to over a dozen annually in 2023-2025.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence

Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 11.2/year recently

Recent publications

Generation of Femtosecond Pulse Trains for Periodically Driven Time-Varying Media
2025
MXenes for Optics and Photonics
Optics and Photonics News · 2023
Experimental observation of polarization-resolved nonlinear Thomson scattering of elliptically polarized light
Physical review. A/Physical review, A · 2021
Measurements of Nonlinear Thomson Scattering Radiation Patterns from Elliptical Light with Polarization Resolution
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics · 2021
Attosecond electron bunch measurement with coherent nonlinear Thomson scattering
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams · 2020
Measuring Attosecond Electron Pulses with Coherent Nonlinear Thomson Scattering
APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts · 2020
High energy X-ray Compton spectroscopy via iterative reconstruction
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment · 2019
Electron Trapping from Interactions between Laser-Driven Relativistic Plasma Waves
Physical Review Letters · 2018
Control over high peak-power laser light and laser-driven X-rays
Optics Communications · 2017
A System to Control the Energy of a High-power Laser System with Application to X-ray Generation at Ultra-high Intensity
2016
Highly Nonlinear Inverse Compton Scattering
2016
A Stable High-Energy Electron Source from Laser Wakefield Acceleration
Bulletin of the American Physical Society · 2016

Publishes in

arXiv (Cornell University)×7
The Cambridge Structural Database×5
Nature Photonics×2
Optics Express×2
ACS Photonics×2

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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.

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