Professional Experience

• NIF & PS Staff Member, 2011–present
• Postdoctoral appointment at LLNL, 2009–2011
• Lawrence Scholar recipient in the Lawrence Scholar Program, 2008–2009
• Graduate Scholarship recipient in 2007–2008 and 2008–2009 awarded by the High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office and the Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS)

Research Interests

Contributions in the fields of diode-pumped alkali lasers and precision Compton scattering light sources for nuclear photonics applications. Main scientific interests include laser physics, laser–matter interactions, classical and quantum electrodynamics, high-field physics, and quantum optics.

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, photonics, University of California, San Diego, 2009

B.S., Electrical Engineering, photonics, University of California, San Diego, 2004

S. S. Q. Wu, T. F. Soules, R. H. Page, S. C. Mitchell, V. Keith Kanz, and R. J. Beach, "Resonance transition 795-nm Rubidium laser with He buffer gas" (Invited paper), Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7005, 700523 (2008); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.782376

S. S. Q. Wu, F. V. Hartemann, and C. P. J. Barty, “11th High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) Program,” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society (BAAS) 42, 2 (2010).

S. S. Q. Wu and F. V. Hartemann, “Evolution of a photon gas in the nonlinear QED vacuum,” 53rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics 56, 16, Abstract ID: BAPS.2011.DPP.GO5.12 (2011).

Sheldon S. Q. Wu, Miroslav Y. Shverdin, Felicie Albert, and Frederic V. Hartemann, “Laser Pulses for Compton Scattering Light Sources, Laser Systems for Applications,” in InTech, Krzysztof Jakubczak, Ed., ISBN: 978-953-307-429-0 (2011). Available from: http://www.intechopen.com/books/laser-systems-for-applications/laser-pulses-for-compton-scattering-light-sources

F. V. Hartemann, S. S. Q. Wu, “Nonlinear brightness optimization in Compton scattering,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 044801 (2013).

A. M. Rubenchik, S. S. Q. Wu, V. K. Kanz, M. M. Leblanc, W. H. Lowdermilk, M. D. Rotter, and J. R. Stanley, “Temperature-dependent 780-nm laser absorption by engineering grade aluminum, titanium and steel alloy surfaces,” Optical Engineering (accepted for publication, 2014).