An He

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741, Room L147
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-8848
ahe@bnl.gov

Pronouns: She, her

Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Publications

Expertise

Accelerator physics and design, electrodynamics of synchrotron radiation, physical optics and its applications for development of beamlines and simulation of experiments at light source facilities

Research Activities

Synchrotron radiation emission and wavefront propagation for 3rd and 4th generation light sources;
e-beam optical diagnostics and optimization of synchrotron radiation beamlines; X-ray optics simulations;
Performing calculations in these and related areas for NSLS-II beamlines and experiments.

Education

• Ph.D in Nuclear Technology and Applications, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China, 2010
• B.S., in Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, 2001

Professional Appointments

• Physicist, Experiment Development Program, PSROD, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
• Assistant Physicist, Experiment Development Program, PSROD, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 2020
• Scientific Associate, Accelerator Physics Group, Accelerator Division, NSLS-II,  Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 2018
• Post-Doc Researcher, Accelerator Physics Group, Accelerator Division, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA, 2015
• Optics Engineer, HISENSE Ltd., China, 2005
• Optics Engineer, New Focus Ltd., China, 2003

Selected Publications

• An H, Jie G, Xiong-Wei Z, Da-Zhang L (2009) Simulation study of electron injection into plasma wake fields by colliding laser pulses using OOPIC. Chinese Physics C 33:177–180. https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/33/s2/047
• He A, Willeke F, Yu LH (2014) Ultrashort x-ray pulse generation by electron beam slicing in storage rings. Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 17:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevstab.17.040701
• He A, Willeke F, Yu LH (2014) Dependence on crossing angle of electron beam slicing in storage rings. Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 17:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevstab.17.120704
• He A, Chubar O, Yu LH (2014) Separation of hard x-ray synchrotron radiation from electron beam slices. Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics III 9209:92090V. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2061255
• He A, Willeke F, Yu LH, et al (2015) Design of low energy bunch compressors with space charge effects. Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 18:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevstab.18.014201
• He A, Yang L, Yu L (2016) High-Gain Free-Electron Laser Theory, Introduction. Synchrotron Light Sources and Free-Electron Lasers 119–160. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14394-1_2
• Luo Y, Blaskiewicz M, He A, et al (2018) Beam-Beam Issues With Two Interaction Points in eRHIC. Proceedings of the 9th Int Particle Accelerator Conf IPAC2018:Canada. https://doi.org/10.18429/JACOW-IPAC2018-MOPMF011
• Li Y, He A, Shaftan T, et al (2019) A Cross-Cell Interleaved Nonlinear Lattice for Potential NSLS-II Upgrade. Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1350:012119. https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1350/1/012119
• He A, Chubar O, Dvorak J, et al (2020) Wave optics simulations for new soft x-ray beamlines at NSLS-II. Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics V 5. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567423
• He A, Chubar O, Rakitin M, et al (2020) Parallel performance of "Synchrotron Radiation Workshop" code: partially coherent calculations for storage rings and time-dependent calculations for XFELs. Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics V 15. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2567448
• Huang L, Wang T, Chubar O, et al (2022) Simulation of X-ray Hartmann wavefront sensing with the Synchrotron Radiation Workshop. Optics Express 30:41061. https://doi.org/10.1364/oe.470197
• He A, Chubar O, Dvorak J, Hu W (2023) New wavefront split propagator in SRW code and its application in simulation of high-resolution fresnel zone plate. Advances in Computational Methods for X-Ray Optics VI 8. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677572
• Hu W, Dvorak J, Chubar O, et al (2023) Upcoming soft x-ray nanoprobe beamline at NSLS-II. X-Ray Nanoimaging: Instruments and Methods VI 17. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677136
• Chubar O, Berman L, Fluerasu A, et al (2023) Applications of "Synchrotron Radiation Workshop" Code. Synchrotron Radiation News 36:15–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/08940886.2023.2274739