Meet Our LAP-Team
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- Alphabetical list
- Advanced multilayer optics
- Broadband infrared diagnostics
- Klaus Franke
- Martin Groß
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Research activities and field
- Accelerator physics
- Electron gun design
Current interests and projects
- Biomedical beamline
- High intensity laser-plasma interaction at DLC foils
- High-harmonic generation from DLC foils
- DLC foil production
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- Development of a Broadband Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy Source
- Mario Aulich
- Boris Bergues
- Shubhadeep Biswas
- Johannes Blöchl
- Markus Bohn
- Ritika Dagar
- Martin Graßl
- Dominik Kammerer
- Džiugas Kimbaras
- Matthias Kling
- Weiwei Li
- Ancyline Maliakkal
- Jia Mei
- Sambit Mitra
- Marcel Neuhaus
- Philipp Rosenberger
- Hartmut Schröder
- Maximilian Seeger
- Zilong Wang
- Chi-Hsun Wei
- Sergey Zherebtsov
Research activities and field
- Laser driven ion acceleration
Current interests and projects
- Biomedical beamline
- DLC foil production
- Klaus Allinger
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- Novel, compact light sources
- Plasma-based particle accelerators
- Laser-plasma and beam-plasma interaction
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Tarek Eissa
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Molecular plant pathology, genetics, cancer biology
- Biobanking and preservation of biological samples
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Katharina Adler
- Nicole Buchwiser
- Martin Groß
- Kerstin Schmidt-Buchmann
- Nicole Schober
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Research activities and field
- Ultrashort pulse generation with photonic crystal fibers at 2µm central wavelength
- Broadband and brilliant mid-infrared light sources
- Electro-optical sampling of waveform stable THz pulses
- Field-resolved spectroscopy of gases and liquids
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Andreas Döpp
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Katharina Adler
- Klaus Franke
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
- Maciej Kowalczyk
- Nathalie Nagl
- Shizhen Qu
- Aleksandar Sebesta
- Philipp Steinleitner
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
- Jannine Adam
- Barbara Spindler
Current interests and projects
- Design and production of IR multilayer chirped coatings
- Mirror characterization: reflectivity, dispersion, transmission, surface quality, damage threshold
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- Field-resolved spectroscopy of molecular vibrations
- Laser fingerprinting for quantitative molecular profiling
- Application of field-resolved spectroscopy for the investigation of biological systems
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Daniel Hahner
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Research activities and field
- High-intensity laser development: Ti:Sa, Yb:YAG and OPCPA sources for ultrahigh contrast, ultraintense light pulses
- Laser-driven electron acceleration: Low-emittance, high charge electron bunches for direct probing of matter, plasma wave excitation, fundamental QED interactions, and X-ray generation
- All-optical hard X-ray sources for biomedical imaging and ultrafast probing
- Surface HHG generation as future attosecond x-ray sources
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Research activities and field
- Development of kilowatt scale multi-kilohertz pulsed laser systems
- Nonlinear compression of sub-Joule pulses towards the femtosecond regime
- Thin-disk amplifier and nonlinear multipass cell development
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
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Research activities and field
- Laser physics, nonlinear optics, attosecond metrology, biomedical applications research focus
- Synthesis of infrared/visible/ultraviolet transients of multi-octave laser light
- Sampling of the electromagnetic fields from THz to PHz frequencies
- Exploring light-matter interactions for ultra-sensitive light field probing
- Advancing electric-field molecular fingerprinting and exploring its potential for health monitoring and disease detection
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Enes Travac
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Research activities and field
- Development of high peak-power femtosecond mid-infrared sources (at 2-3 µm)
- Diode-pumping of Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond oscillators
- Generation of stable and broadband mid-infrared continuum (2-5 µm)
- Sebastian Gröbmeyer
- Maciej Kowalczyk
- Shizhen Qu
- Aleksandar Sebesta
- Philipp Steinleitner
Research activities and field
- Design and production of multilayer chirped coatings in UV-Vis-IR and X - ray ranges
- Mirror characterization: reflectivity , dispersion, transmission, surface quality, damage threshold
- Generation of high energy and extremely short femtosecond pulses
- Coating for high energy lasers
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Michael Trubetskov
Research activities and field
- Laser driven ion acceleration
- Ion optics with permanent magnets
- Generation of electromagnetic pulses during laser plasma interaction
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- High intensity laser-plasma interaction
- Ion acceleration high intensity laser irradiated plasmas
- Time-resolved laser-plasma interferometry
- Theory of laser-electron-ion acceleration
- Visualization of laser-plasma physics
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Data preprocessing and data analysis in Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Field-Resolved Spectroscopy
- Optimization theory, theory of optimal control, global and needle optimization
- Mathematical simulation in electrodynamics
- Analysis and synthesis of multilayer optical coatings including costings for ultrafast applications.
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Daniel Hahner
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Bernd Jäger
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Combining laser spectroscopy with mass-spectrometry for blood-based molecular fingerprinting
- Liquid chromatography
- Ion spectroscopy in the gas phase
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Synthesis of intense controlled waveforms of laser light
- Near-infrared field-resolved spectroscopy
- Nonlinear pulse compression of Yb:YAG thin disk laser and its application in mid-infrared and terahertz generation
- Matthias Kling
- Katharina Adler
- Klaus Franke
- Martin Groß
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Molecular cell biology, cancer biology, developmental biology, genetics
- Experimental model systems: zebrafish, mice, Drosophila, Hydra, cultured cells/organs
- Mechanistic understanding of cell growth and division control
- Laser fingerprinting for quantitative molecular profiling
- Devising new routes to detection, analysis and understanding of cancer biology
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
Advanced multilayer optics
Research activities and field
- Design and production of multilayer chirped coatings in UV-Vis-IR and X - ray ranges
- Mirror characterization: reflectivity , dispersion, transmission, surface quality, damage threshold
- Generation of high energy and extremely short femtosecond pulses
- Coating for high energy lasers
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Michael Trubetskov
Current interests and projects
- Design and production of IR multilayer chirped coatings
- Mirror characterization: reflectivity, dispersion, transmission, surface quality, damage threshold
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
- Daniel Hahner
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Attosecond metrology 2.0
Attosecond metrology PIII
Research activities and field
- Development of high peak-power femtosecond mid-infrared sources (at 2-3 µm)
- Diode-pumping of Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond oscillators
- Generation of stable and broadband mid-infrared continuum (2-5 µm)
- Sebastian Gröbmeyer
- Maciej Kowalczyk
- Shizhen Qu
- Aleksandar Sebesta
- Philipp Steinleitner
Broadband infrared diagnostics
Research activities and field
- Molecular cell biology, cancer biology, developmental biology, genetics
- Experimental model systems: zebrafish, mice, Drosophila, Hydra, cultured cells/organs
- Mechanistic understanding of cell growth and division control
- Laser fingerprinting for quantitative molecular profiling
- Devising new routes to detection, analysis and understanding of cancer biology
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Tarek Eissa
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Molecular plant pathology, genetics, cancer biology
- Biobanking and preservation of biological samples
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Ultrashort pulse generation with photonic crystal fibers at 2µm central wavelength
- Broadband and brilliant mid-infrared light sources
- Electro-optical sampling of waveform stable THz pulses
- Field-resolved spectroscopy of gases and liquids
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Field-resolved spectroscopy of molecular vibrations
- Laser fingerprinting for quantitative molecular profiling
- Application of field-resolved spectroscopy for the investigation of biological systems
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Data preprocessing and data analysis in Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Field-Resolved Spectroscopy
- Optimization theory, theory of optimal control, global and needle optimization
- Mathematical simulation in electrodynamics
- Analysis and synthesis of multilayer optical coatings including costings for ultrafast applications.
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Daniel Hahner
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Bernd Jäger
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Combining laser spectroscopy with mass-spectrometry for blood-based molecular fingerprinting
- Liquid chromatography
- Ion spectroscopy in the gas phase
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Field-resolved infrared metrology
Associated groups
Research activities and field
- High-intensity laser development: Ti:Sa, Yb:YAG and OPCPA sources for ultrahigh contrast, ultraintense light pulses
- Laser-driven electron acceleration: Low-emittance, high charge electron bunches for direct probing of matter, plasma wave excitation, fundamental QED interactions, and X-ray generation
- All-optical hard X-ray sources for biomedical imaging and ultrafast probing
- Surface HHG generation as future attosecond x-ray sources
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Research activities and field
- High intensity laser-plasma interaction
- Ion acceleration high intensity laser irradiated plasmas
- Time-resolved laser-plasma interferometry
- Theory of laser-electron-ion acceleration
- Visualization of laser-plasma physics
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
Research activities and field
- Accelerator physics
- Electron gun design
Current interests and projects
- Biomedical beamline
- High intensity laser-plasma interaction at DLC foils
- High-harmonic generation from DLC foils
- DLC foil production
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- Development of a Broadband Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy Source
- Mario Aulich
- Boris Bergues
- Shubhadeep Biswas
- Johannes Blöchl
- Markus Bohn
- Ritika Dagar
- Martin Graßl
- Dominik Kammerer
- Džiugas Kimbaras
- Matthias Kling
- Weiwei Li
- Ancyline Maliakkal
- Jia Mei
- Sambit Mitra
- Marcel Neuhaus
- Philipp Rosenberger
- Hartmut Schröder
- Maximilian Seeger
- Zilong Wang
- Chi-Hsun Wei
- Sergey Zherebtsov
Research activities and field
- Laser driven ion acceleration
Current interests and projects
- Biomedical beamline
- DLC foil production
- Klaus Allinger
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- Novel, compact light sources
- Plasma-based particle accelerators
- Laser-plasma and beam-plasma interaction
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
- Andreas Döpp
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- Development of kilowatt scale multi-kilohertz pulsed laser systems
- Nonlinear compression of sub-Joule pulses towards the femtosecond regime
- Thin-disk amplifier and nonlinear multipass cell development
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Enes Travac
Research activities and field
- Laser driven ion acceleration
- Ion optics with permanent magnets
- Generation of electromagnetic pulses during laser plasma interaction
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Jörg Schreiber
Key leaders
Focus physics
Focus medicine
Public Outreach
Director
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Research activities and field
- Laser physics, nonlinear optics, attosecond metrology, biomedical applications research focus
- Synthesis of infrared/visible/ultraviolet transients of multi-octave laser light
- Sampling of the electromagnetic fields from THz to PHz frequencies
- Exploring light-matter interactions for ultra-sensitive light field probing
- Advancing electric-field molecular fingerprinting and exploring its potential for health monitoring and disease detection
Distributed kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator
Breast-cancer detection using blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Group leaders
Research activities and field
- High-intensity laser development: Ti:Sa, Yb:YAG and OPCPA sources for ultrahigh contrast, ultraintense light pulses
- Laser-driven electron acceleration: Low-emittance, high charge electron bunches for direct probing of matter, plasma wave excitation, fundamental QED interactions, and X-ray generation
- All-optical hard X-ray sources for biomedical imaging and ultrafast probing
- Surface HHG generation as future attosecond x-ray sources
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams
Spectral broadening of 112 mJ, 1.3 ps pulses at 5 kHz in a LG10 multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Ionization-induced subcycle metallization of nanoparticles in few-cycle pulses
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Research activities and field
- Design and production of multilayer chirped coatings in UV-Vis-IR and X - ray ranges
- Mirror characterization: reflectivity , dispersion, transmission, surface quality, damage threshold
- Generation of high energy and extremely short femtosecond pulses
- Coating for high energy lasers
Transient field-resolved reflectometry at 50–100 THz
Distributed kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator
Efficient nonlinear compression of a thin-disk oscillator to 8.5 fs at 55 W average power
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Michael Trubetskov
Research activities and field
- High intensity laser-plasma interaction
- Ion acceleration high intensity laser irradiated plasmas
- Time-resolved laser-plasma interferometry
- Theory of laser-electron-ion acceleration
- Visualization of laser-plasma physics
Laser-driven x-ray and proton micro-source and application to simultaneous single-shot bi-modal radiographic imaging
Temporally resolved intensity contouring (TRIC) for characterization of the absolute spatio-temporal intensity distribution of a relativistic, femtosecond laser pulse
Sub-cycle dynamics in relativistic nanoplasma acceleration
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
Research activities and field
- Molecular cell biology, cancer biology, developmental biology, genetics
- Experimental model systems: zebrafish, mice, Drosophila, Hydra, cultured cells/organs
- Mechanistic understanding of cell growth and division control
- Laser fingerprinting for quantitative molecular profiling
- Devising new routes to detection, analysis and understanding of cancer biology
Breast-cancer detection using blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
Management
- Klaus Franke
- Martin Groß
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
- Katharina Adler
- Nicole Buchwiser
- Martin Groß
- Kerstin Schmidt-Buchmann
- Nicole Schober
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Fission‐Fusion: A new reaction mechanism for nuclear astrophysics based on laser‐ion acceleration
Laser particle acceleration: status and perspectives for nuclear physics
Neutron halo isomers in stable nuclei and their possible application for the production of low energy, pulsed, polarized neutron beams of high intensity and high brilliance
- Katharina Adler
- Klaus Franke
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
- Jannine Adam
- Barbara Spindler
- Katharina Adler
- Klaus Franke
- Martin Groß
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
Scientific staff
Research activities and field
- Accelerator physics
- Electron gun design
Current interests and projects
- Biomedical beamline
- High intensity laser-plasma interaction at DLC foils
- High-harmonic generation from DLC foils
- DLC foil production
Temporally resolved intensity contouring (TRIC) for characterization of the absolute spatio-temporal intensity distribution of a relativistic, femtosecond laser pulse
A transportable Paul-trap for levitation and accurate positioning of micron-scale particles in vacuum for laser-plasma experiments
Dynamics of laser-driven proton acceleration exhibited by measured laser absorptivity and reflectivity
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- Development of a Broadband Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy Source
Efficient nonlinear compression of a thin-disk oscillator to 8.5 fs at 55 W average power
Multi-octave, CEP-stable source for high-energy field synthesis
High energy, sub-cycle, field synthesizers
- Mario Aulich
- Boris Bergues
- Shubhadeep Biswas
- Johannes Blöchl
- Markus Bohn
- Ritika Dagar
- Martin Graßl
- Dominik Kammerer
- Džiugas Kimbaras
- Matthias Kling
- Weiwei Li
- Ancyline Maliakkal
- Jia Mei
- Sambit Mitra
- Marcel Neuhaus
- Philipp Rosenberger
- Hartmut Schröder
- Maximilian Seeger
- Zilong Wang
- Chi-Hsun Wei
- Sergey Zherebtsov
Research activities and field
- Laser driven ion acceleration
Current interests and projects
- Biomedical beamline
- DLC foil production
Temporally resolved intensity contouring (TRIC) for characterization of the absolute spatio-temporal intensity distribution of a relativistic, femtosecond laser pulse
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Enhanced laser-driven ion acceleration by superponderomotive electrons generated from near-critical-density plasma
- Klaus Allinger
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- Novel, compact light sources
- Plasma-based particle accelerators
- Laser-plasma and beam-plasma interaction
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
Dual-energy electron beams from a compact laser-driven accelerator
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Field-resolved infrared spectroscopy of biological systems
Human beings as islands of stability: monitoring body states using breath profiles
- Tarek Eissa
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Molecular plant pathology, genetics, cancer biology
- Biobanking and preservation of biological samples
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Field-resolved infrared spectroscopy of biological systems
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Ultrashort pulse generation with photonic crystal fibers at 2µm central wavelength
- Broadband and brilliant mid-infrared light sources
- Electro-optical sampling of waveform stable THz pulses
- Field-resolved spectroscopy of gases and liquids
Broadband dispersive Ge/YbF3 mirrors for mid-infrared spectral range
Multi-octave spanning, Watt-level ultrafast mid-infrared source
Mid-infrared long-pass filter for high-power applications based on grating diffraction
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
- Andreas Döpp
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Efficient nonlinear compression of a thin-disk oscillator to 8.5 fs at 55 W average power
Self‑compression at 1 μm wavelength in all‑bulk multi‑pass geometry
Kerr-lens mode-locked thin-disk oscillator with 50% output coupling rate
- Maciej Kowalczyk
- Nathalie Nagl
- Shizhen Qu
- Aleksandar Sebesta
- Philipp Steinleitner
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Current interests and projects
- Design and production of IR multilayer chirped coatings
- Mirror characterization: reflectivity, dispersion, transmission, surface quality, damage threshold
Suppression of group delay dispersion oscillations of highly dispersive mirrors by non-uniformity and post-deposition treatment
3–6 μm dispersive mirrors compensating for dispersion introduced by the GaAs crystal
Comparison of magnetron sputtering and ion beam sputtering on dispersive mirrors
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Laser-driven x-ray and proton micro-source and application to simultaneous single-shot bi-modal radiographic imaging
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Ring-like spatial distribution of laser accelerated protons in the ultra-high-contrast TNSA-regime
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Research activities and field
- Field-resolved spectroscopy of molecular vibrations
- Laser fingerprinting for quantitative molecular profiling
- Application of field-resolved spectroscopy for the investigation of biological systems
Breast-cancer detection using blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Development of kilowatt scale multi-kilohertz pulsed laser systems
- Nonlinear compression of sub-Joule pulses towards the femtosecond regime
- Thin-disk amplifier and nonlinear multipass cell development
Spectral broadening of 112 mJ, 1.3 ps pulses at 5 kHz in a LG10 multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Generation of energetic femtosecond pulses at high average power
Multipass spectral broadening of 18 mJ pulses compressible from 1.3 ps to 41 fs
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Development of high power pump laser for future sources of isolated attosecond pulses
Spectral broadening of 112 mJ, 1.3 ps pulses at 5 kHz in a LG10 multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic surface high harmonics
On-target temporal characterization of optical pulses at relativistic intensity
Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic surface high harmonics
Developing picosecond-pumped OPCPA system for relativistic atto-science
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Enes Travac
Research activities and field
- Development of high peak-power femtosecond mid-infrared sources (at 2-3 µm)
- Diode-pumping of Kerr-lens mode-locked femtosecond oscillators
- Generation of stable and broadband mid-infrared continuum (2-5 µm)
A new generation of ultrafast oscillators for mid-infrared applications
Multi-octave spanning, Watt-level ultrafast mid-infrared source
Directly diode-pumped, Kerr-lens modelocked, few-cycle Cr:ZnSe oscillator
- Sebastian Gröbmeyer
- Maciej Kowalczyk
- Shizhen Qu
- Aleksandar Sebesta
- Philipp Steinleitner
Research activities and field
- Laser driven ion acceleration
- Ion optics with permanent magnets
- Generation of electromagnetic pulses during laser plasma interaction
Isolated proton bunch acceleration by a petawatt laser pulse
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Jörg Schreiber
Phase-matching for generation of isolated attosecond XUV and soft-X-ray pulses with few-cycle drivers
Probing molecular environment through photoemission delays
Optimum sample thickness for trace analyte detection with field-resolved infrared spectroscopy
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Data preprocessing and data analysis in Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Field-Resolved Spectroscopy
- Optimization theory, theory of optimal control, global and needle optimization
- Mathematical simulation in electrodynamics
- Analysis and synthesis of multilayer optical coatings including costings for ultrafast applications.
Suppression of group delay dispersion oscillations of highly dispersive mirrors by non-uniformity and post-deposition treatment
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Stability of person-specific blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints opens up prospects for health monitoring
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Daniel Hahner
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Bernd Jäger
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Liudmila Voronina
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Combining laser spectroscopy with mass-spectrometry for blood-based molecular fingerprinting
- Liquid chromatography
- Ion spectroscopy in the gas phase
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Stability of person-specific blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints opens up prospects for health monitoring
- Tarek Eissa
- Ernst Fill
- Frank Fleischmann
- Daniel Gerz
- Eric Grießinger
- Jacqueline Hermann
- Marinus Huber
- Kosmas Kepesidis
- Daniel Meyer
- Wolfgang Schweinberger
- Carola Spindler
- Michael Trubetskov
- Sabine Witzens
- Ewelina Wozniak-Bauer
- Viola Zóka
- Mihaela Žigman
Research activities and field
- Synthesis of intense controlled waveforms of laser light
- Near-infrared field-resolved spectroscopy
- Nonlinear pulse compression of Yb:YAG thin disk laser and its application in mid-infrared and terahertz generation
Efficient nonlinear compression of a thin-disk oscillator to 8.5 fs at 55 W average power
High-energy and high-power multi-octave pulse generation
Multi-octave, CEP-stable source for high-energy field synthesis
- Matthias Kling
Technical staff
On-target temporal characterization of optical pulses at relativistic intensity
Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic surface high harmonics
Developing picosecond-pumped OPCPA system for relativistic atto-science
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
On the detection of footprints from strong electron acceleration in high-intensity laser fields, including the Unruh effect