Bio

Meredith received a PhD in Applied Physics from the University of Michigan in 2018 and held a position as a postdoctoral scientist at the Max Planck Institute for the Structure of Dynamics and Matter in Hamburg, Germany from 2018-2022. Her expertise spans across the interfacing of metamaterials with nonlinear optics, spontaneous and coherent Raman scattering, nonlinear phononics, and ferroelectrics.

Meredith's current research at SLAC focuses on developing near-field-based approaches for delivering high-field mid-infrared and THz-frequency sources for experiments with LCLS-II, the development of efficient laser-driven devices for enabling high temporal-resolution experiments at the Ultrafast Electron Diffraction (MEV-UED) beamline, and efforts towards realizing an electron beam-based source that can deliver multi-cycle mid-infrared pulses at both high energies and high repetition rates for experiments with LCLS-II.

Meredith is one of the primary SLAC laser scientists supporting time-resolved experiments on the X-ray Pump-Probe (XPP) beamline, and she also supports the laser team at the Macromolecular Femtosecond Crystallography (MFX) beamline.

Meredith's google scholar page can be found here:
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Ab0xESYAAAAJ&hl=en

Contact

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    mhenst@stanford.edu
    University - Staff Department: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory Position: Associate Scientist
    • 2575 Sand Hill Rd
    • Mailstop 0019
    • Menlo Park,  California  94025 

Additional Info

All Publications

  • Nonlocal nonlinear phononics NATURE PHYSICS Henstridge, M., Foerst, M., Rowe, E., Fechner, M., Cavalleri, A. 2022; 18 (4): 457-+

    View details for DOI 10.1038/s41567-022-01512-3

    View details for Web of Science ID 000765711500002

  • Synchrotron radiation from an accelerating light pulse SCIENCE Henstridge, M., Pfeiffer, C., Wang, D., Boltasseva, A., Shalaev, V. M., Grbic, A., Merlin, R. 2018; 362 (6413): 439-+

    Abstract

    Synchrotron radiation-namely, electromagnetic radiation produced by charges moving in a curved path-is regularly generated at large-scale facilities where giga-electron volt electrons move along kilometer-long circular paths. We use a metasurface to bend light and demonstrate synchrotron radiation produced by a subpicosecond pulse, which moves along a circular arc of radius 100 micrometers inside a nonlinear crystal. The emitted radiation, in the terahertz frequency range, results from the nonlinear polarization induced by the pulse. The generation of synchrotron radiation from a pulse revolving about a circular trajectory holds promise for the development of on-chip terahertz sources.

    View details for DOI 10.1126/science.aat5915

    View details for Web of Science ID 000450441900045

    View details for PubMedID 30361369

  • Ultrafast Raman thermometry in driven YBa2Cu3O6.48 PHYSICAL REVIEW B Chou, T., Foerst, M., Fechner, M., Henstridge, M., Roy, S., Buzzi, M., Nicoletti, D., Liu, Y., Nakata, S., Keimer, B., Cavalleri, A. 2024; 109 (19)

    View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.109.195141

    View details for Web of Science ID 001237280400002

  • Probing photoinduced rearrangements in the NdNiO<sub>3</sub> magnetic spiral with polarization-sensitive ultrafast resonant soft x-ray scattering PHYSICAL REVIEW B Beyerlein, K. R., Disa, A. S., Foerst, M., Henstridge, M., Gebert, T., Forrest, T., Fitzpatrick, A., Dominguez, C., Fowlie, J., Gibert, M., Triscone, J., Dhesi, S. S., Cavalleri, A. 2020; 102 (1)

    View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.102.014311

    View details for Web of Science ID 000550992200001

  • Accelerating light with metasurfaces OPTICA Henstridge, M., Pfeiffer, C., Wang, D., Boltasseva, A., Shalaev, V. M., Grbic, A., Merlin, R. 2018; 5 (6): 678-681

    View details for DOI 10.1364/OPTICA.5.000678

    View details for Web of Science ID 000435967000002

  • Wavelength scale terahertz spectrometer based on extraordinary transmission APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS Henstridge, M., Zhou, J., Guo, L., Merlin, R. 2017; 111 (6)

    View details for DOI 10.1063/1.4991035

    View details for Web of Science ID 000407696500052

  • Observation of Standing Waves of Electron-Hole Sound in a Photoexcited Semiconductor PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS Padmanabhan, P., Young, S. M., Henstridge, M., Bhowmick, S., Bhattacharya, P. K., Merlin, R. 2014; 113 (2): 027402

    Abstract

    Three-dimensional multicomponent plasmas composed of species with very different masses support a new branch of charge-density fluctuations known as acoustic plasmons. Here, we report on an ultrafast optical method to generate and probe coherent states of acoustic plasmons in a slab of GaAs, which relies on strong photoexcitation to create a large population of light electrons and heavy holes. Consistent with the random-phase-approximation theory, the data reveal standing plasma waves confined to these slabs, similar to those of conventional sound but with associated velocities that are significantly larger.

    View details for DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.027402

    View details for Web of Science ID 000339118300012

    View details for PubMedID 25062229

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