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American physicist (1935–2025)

Kenneth J. Schafer is an American Physicist and Educator who is the Ball Family Distinguished Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the Louisiana State University^[1].

Kenneth Schafer got his PhD in Physics from the University of Arizona in 1987 and after few years of the Postdoctoral Research in Kent Wilson Group at the University of California he joined the Physics faculty at the Louisiana State University at rank of the tenure tracked Assistant Professor in 1997.

His groundbreaking theoretical contributions in the field of light-matter interactions, High Harmonic Generation and Ultra Short Light Pulses Generation by highly nonlinear excitations and pulse shape propagation tailoring in solids and the Fourier phase matching lead to the experiments granted the Nobel Prize in Physics
to his scientific collaborator Anne L’Huillier in 2023^[2]..

• L’Huillier, A.; Schafer, K. J.; and Kulander, K. C. (1991). “Theoretical aspects of intense field harmonic generation”. . Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 24: 3315. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/24/15/004.
• Krause, J. L.; Schafer, K. J..; and Kulander, K. C. (1992). “High-order harmonic generation from atoms and ions in the high intensity regime”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 68: 3535.
• Schafer, K. J.; Yang, B.; DiMauro, L.F.; and Kulander, K.C. (1993). “Above threshold ionization beyond the high harmonic cutoff”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 70: 1599.
• Schafer, K. J.; and Kulander, K. C. (1997). “High Harmonic Generation from Ultrafast Pump Lasers”. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78: 638.