Ryland Wala

Hi! I am Ryland. I am a seventh year PhD student in Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona. I got my bachelor's in physics at Arizona State University (Go Devil's! ??  🔱)

I am currently working along side Dr. R. Jason Jones and Dr. Mark C. Phillips conducting absorption experiments on Laser Produced Plasmas (LPPs) using both optical frequency combs and tunable continuous wave lasers.  We are interested in these LPPs because they are good proxies for environments like: stars, nuclear fireballs, conventional fireballs, semiconductor etching plasmas, etc. Additionally, absorption spectroscopy of LPPs allow for extremely high resolution scans of solid materials which is traditionally challenging.