G. Lawrence (Larry) Carr

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 741, Room 1L 103
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-2237
carr@bnl.gov

Expertise | Research | Education | Appointments | Publications | Awards

Expertise

• Infrared Instrumentation and optical design
• Infrared, THz and optical properties of materials
• Condensed matter physics
• Low-temperature physics
• Accelerator-based sources of infrared
• Synchrotron beamline design
   

Research Activities

• Detector development for extending nanospectroscopy into the far-IR
• Insertion device development for low-energy photons
• Time-resolved spectroscopy of photoexcitations in solids

Education

B.S. - Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Ph. D. - Physics, the Ohio State University

Professional Appointments

International Advisory Board for Helmholz Zentrum Research
International Advisory Committee for WIRMS Conference Series

Selected Publications

• Carr GL, Martin MC, McKinney WR, et al (2002) High-power terahertz radiation from relativistic electrons. Nature 420:153–156. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature01175
• Carr GL (2001) Resolution limits for infrared microspectroscopy explored with synchrotron radiation. Review of Scientific Instruments 72:1613–1619. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1347965
• Wehmeier L, Liu M, Park S, et al (2023) Ultrabroadband Terahertz Near-Field Nanospectroscopy with a HgCdTe Detector. ACS Photonics 10:4329–4339. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01148
• Khatib O, Bechtel HA, Martin MC, et al (2018) Far Infrared Synchrotron Near-Field Nanoimaging and Nanospectroscopy. ACS Photonics 5:2773–2779. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.8b00565
• Shen Y, Watanabe T, Arena DA, et al (2007) Nonlinear Cross-Phase Modulation with Intense Single-Cycle Terahertz Pulses. Physical Review Letters 99:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.99.043901
• Xi X, Ma C, Liu Z, et al (2013) Signatures of a Pressure-Induced Topological Quantum Phase Transition in BiTeI. Physical Review Letters 111:. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.111.155701
• Jamin N, Dumas P, Moncuit J, et al (1998) Highly resolved chemical imaging of living cells by using synchrotron infrared microspectrometry. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95:4837–4840. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.95.9.4837
• Carr GL, Reffner JA, Williams GP (1995) Performance of an infrared microspectrometer at the NSLS. Review of Scientific Instruments 66:1490–1492. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1145951

Awards & Recognition

Fellow of the American Physical Society