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Katharina Adler
Accounting and finance
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
- Klaus Franke
- Martin Groß
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Adler, Katharina
Accounting and finance
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14049
Email: katharina.adler [at] lmu.de
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Klaus Allinger
Phd student in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7697 (2019)
A transportable Paul-trap for levitation and accurate positioning of micron-scale particles in vacuum for laser-plasma experiments
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 013302 (2018)
Dynamics of laser-driven proton acceleration exhibited by measured laser absorptivity and reflectivity
Journal: Scientific Reports 7, 43548 (2017)
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Allinger, Klaus
Phd student in LION
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14172
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Dr. Gaia Barbiero
Postdoctoral scientist in FRNS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 5304 (2021)
Multi-octave, CEP-stable source for high-energy field synthesis
Journal: Science Advances 6, eaax3408 (2020)
High energy, sub-cycle, field synthesizers
Journal: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 25, 1900112 (2019)
- 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
Barbiero, Gaia
Postdoctoral scientist in FRNS
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14083
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Dr. Jianhui Bin
Postdoctoral scientist in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7697 (2019)
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 6714 (2019)
Enhanced laser-driven ion acceleration by superponderomotive electrons generated from near-critical-density plasma
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 074801 (2018)
- Klaus Allinger
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Bin, Jianhui
Postdoctoral scientist in LION
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54024
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Dr. Andreas Döpp
Postdoctoral scientist in high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Physical Review X 9, 011046 (2019)
Dual-energy electron beams from a compact laser-driven accelerator
Journal: Nature Photonics 13, 263 (2019)
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Döpp, Andreas
Postdoctoral scientist in high-field lasers and applications
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14096
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Tarek Eissa
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
- 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
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Dr. Ernst Fill
Senior scientistResearch in BIRD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 127
Laboratory: 209
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54055
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
Email: ernst.fill [at] mpq.mpg.de
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Field-resolved infrared spectroscopy of biological systems
Journal: Nature 577, 52 (2020)
Human beings as islands of stability: monitoring body states using breath profiles
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 16167 (2019)
- 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
Fill, Ernst
Senior scientistResearch in BIRD
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54055
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
Email: ernst.fill [at] mpq.mpg.de
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Dr. Frank Fleischmann
Biorepository manager
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 129
Laboratory: 010
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54056
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.54057
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
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Field-resolved infrared spectroscopy of biological systems
Journal: Nature 577, 52 (2020)
- 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
Fleischmann, Frank
Biorepository manager
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Klaus Franke
Office management LMU, Project Assistant
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: 222 and W121
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14013
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
Email: klaus.franke [at] lmu.de
- Katharina Adler
- Nicole Buchwiser
- Martin Groß
- Kerstin Schmidt-Buchmann
- Nicole Schober
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Franke, Klaus
Office management LMU, Project Assistant
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14013
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
Email: klaus.franke [at] lmu.de
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Daniel Gerz
Phd studentResearch in BIRD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 131
Laboratory: U 108
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54090
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
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/YbF<sub>3</sub> mirrors for mid-infrared spectral range
Journal: Optics Letters 44, 5210 (2019)
Multi-octave spanning, Watt-level ultrafast mid-infrared source
Journal: JPhys Photonics 1, 044006 (2019)
Mid-infrared long-pass filter for high-power applications based on grating diffraction
Journal: Optics Letters 44, 3014 (2019)
- 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
Gerz, Daniel
Phd studentResearch in BIRD
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54090
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
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Max Gilljohann
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 6714 (2019)
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Physical Review X 9, 011046 (2019)
- Andreas Döpp
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Gilljohann, Max
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54046
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Nikolce Gjotev
Vacuum technology
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Physik
LEX Photonics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Gjotev, Nikolce
Vacuum technology
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14021
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Oliver Gosau
Technician – laser engineering
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Physik
LEX Photonics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Gosau, Oliver
Technician – laser engineering
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14027
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Eric Grießinger
Bioengineer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
- 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
Grießinger, Eric
Bioengineer
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Dr. Martin Groß
Head of management CALA
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 123
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14116
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14059
Email: m.gross [at] lmu.de
Fission‐Fusion: A new reaction mechanism for nuclear astrophysics based on laser‐ion acceleration
Journal: AIP Conference Proceedings 1377, 88 (2011)
Laser particle acceleration: status and perspectives for nuclear physics
Journal: Acta Physica Polonica B 42, 843 (2011)
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
Journal: Applied Physics B 103, 485 (2010)
- Katharina Adler
- Klaus Franke
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Groß, Martin
Head of management CALA
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14116
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14059
Email: m.gross [at] lmu.de
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Sebastian Gröbmeyer
Phd studentResearch in HFS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: 203
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54032
Efficient nonlinear compression of a thin-disk oscillator to 8.5 fs at 55 W average power
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 5304 (2021)
Self‑compression at 1 μm wavelength in all‑bulk multi‑pass geometry
Journal: Applied Physics B 126, 159 (2020)
Kerr-lens mode-locked thin-disk oscillator with 50% output coupling rate
Journal: Optics Letters 44, 4227 (2019)
- Maciej Kowalczyk
- Nathalie Nagl
- Shizhen Qu
- Aleksandar Sebesta
- Philipp Steinleitner
Gröbmeyer, Sebastian
Phd studentResearch in HFS
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54032
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Johannes Götzfried
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: E 30
Laboratory: U 108
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54044
Phone (office): +49.89.289.53308
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 6714 (2019)
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Physical Review X 9, 011046 (2019)
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Götzfried, Johannes
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54044
Phone (office): +49.89.289.53308
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Dr. Nils Haag
Personal assistant / science management
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Office: C 1.28
Phone (office): +49.89.32905.361
Fax (office): +49.89.32905.649
Email: nils.haag [at] mpq.mpg.de
- Jannine Adam
- Barbara Spindler
Haag, Nils
Personal assistant / science management
Phone (office): +49.89.32905.361
Fax (office): +49.89.32905.649
Email: nils.haag [at] mpq.mpg.de
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Daniel Hahner
Phd studentResearch in AMO
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Optics & Laser Technology 142, 107192 (2021)
3–6 μm dispersive mirrors compensating for dispersion introduced by the GaAs crystal
Journal: Applied Optics 60, 9249 (2021)
Comparison of magnetron sputtering and ion beam sputtering on dispersive mirrors
Journal: Applied Physics B 126, 82 (2020)
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Hahner, Daniel
Phd studentResearch in AMO
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14101
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Peter Hilz
Phd student in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Laser-driven x-ray and proton micro-source and application to simultaneous single-shot bi-modal radiographic imaging
Journal: Nature Communications 11, 6174 (2020)
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 6714 (2019)
Ring-like spatial distribution of laser accelerated protons in the ultra-high-contrast TNSA-regime
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 60, 055010 (2018)
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Hilz, Peter
Phd student in LION
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14042
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Dr. Marinus Huber
Postdoctoral scientist in BIRD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 127
Laboratory: 209
Laboratory: 010
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54055
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.54057
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
Journal: BMC Cancer 21, 1287 (2021)
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Journal: Angewandte Chemie 60, 17060 (2021)
- 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
Huber, Marinus
Postdoctoral scientist in BIRD
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Bernd Jäger
Technician – optical coating
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14019
- Daniel Hahner
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Jäger, Bernd
Technician – optical coating
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Prof. Dr. Stefan Karsch
Research Group leader of high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14040
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
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
Spectral broadening of 112 mJ, 1.3 ps pulses at 5 kHz in a LG<sub>10</sub> multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 929 (2021)
Ionization-induced subcycle metallization of nanoparticles in few-cycle pulses
Journal: ACS Photonics 7, 3207 (2020)
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Karsch, Stefan
Research Group leader of high-field lasers and applications
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14040
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Dr. Martin Kaumanns
Postdoctoral scientist in high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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 LG<sub>10</sub> multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 929 (2021)
Generation of energetic femtosecond pulses at high average power
Journal: (2020)
Multipass spectral broadening of 18 mJ pulses compressible from 1.3 ps to 41 fs
Journal: Optics Letters 43, 5877 (2018)
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Kaumanns, Martin
Postdoctoral scientist in high-field lasers and applications
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54027
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Dr. Dmitrii Kormin
Postdoctoral scientist
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Development of high power pump laser for future sources of isolated attosecond pulses
Journal: (2021)
Spectral broadening of 112 mJ, 1.3 ps pulses at 5 kHz in a LG<sub>10</sub> multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 929 (2021)
Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic surface high harmonics
Journal: Optica 6, 280 (2019)
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Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz
Director
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Klaus Franke
Office: 222 and W121
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14013
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
Email: klaus.franke [at] lmu.de
Nicole Buchwiser
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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
Journal: Ultrafast Science 2022, 9837892 (2022)
Breast-cancer detection using blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints
Journal: BMC Cancer 21, 1287 (2021)
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
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Mathias Krüger
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Office: B 1.45
Phone (office): +49.89.32905.326
Fax (office): +49.89.32905.649
On-target temporal characterization of optical pulses at relativistic intensity
Journal: Light: Science & Applications 8, 96 (2019)
Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic surface high harmonics
Journal: Optica 6, 280 (2019)
Developing picosecond-pumped OPCPA system for relativistic atto-science
Journal: 2018 International Conference Laser Optics (ICLO) 18036339 (2018)
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Enes Travac
Krüger, Mathias
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Phone (office): +49.89.32905.326
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Daniel Meyer
Biological technical assistant
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 129
Laboratory: 010
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54056
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.54057
- 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
Meyer, Daniel
Biological technical assistant
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Siegfried Mittler
Technician – optical coating
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Mittler, Siegfried
Technician – optical coating
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Andreas Münzer
Technician – laser engineering
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Physik
Schellingstr. 4
80799 Munich
Office: B 1.29
Phone (office): +49.89.32905.521
Fax (office): +49.89.32905.649
On-target temporal characterization of optical pulses at relativistic intensity
Journal: Light: Science & Applications 8, 96 (2019)
Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic surface high harmonics
Journal: Optica 6, 280 (2019)
Developing picosecond-pumped OPCPA system for relativistic atto-science
Journal: 2018 International Conference Laser Optics (ICLO) 18036339 (2018)
Münzer, Andreas
Technician – laser engineering
Phone (office): +49.89.32905.521
Fax (office): +49.89.32905.649
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Dr. Nathalie Nagl
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in HFS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: 220
Laboratory: 218
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54034
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.14020
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
Journal: (2021)
Multi-octave spanning, Watt-level ultrafast mid-infrared source
Journal: JPhys Photonics 1, 044006 (2019)
Directly diode-pumped, Kerr-lens modelocked, few-cycle Cr:ZnSe oscillator
Journal: Optics Express 27, 24445 (2019)
- Sebastian Gröbmeyer
- Maciej Kowalczyk
- Shizhen Qu
- Aleksandar Sebesta
- Philipp Steinleitner
Nagl, Nathalie
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in HFS
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54034
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.14020
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Dr. Volodymyr Pervak
Research Group leader of AMO
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: 204
Laboratory: E 6 - E 9
Laboratory: E 10
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14125
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.14011
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
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
Journal: Optica 9, 42 (2022)
Distributed kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator
Journal: Ultrafast Science 2022, 9837892 (2022)
Efficient nonlinear compression of a thin-disk oscillator to 8.5 fs at 55 W average power
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 5304 (2021)
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Michael Trubetskov
Pervak, Volodymyr
Research Group leader of AMO
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14125
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.14011
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Christoph Rahm
Design
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Physik
LEX Photonics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Rahm, Christoph
Design
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14024
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Thomas Rösch
Phd student in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Nature Communications 9, 423 (2018)
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Jörg Schreiber
Rösch, Thomas
Phd student in LION
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54023
Email: t.roesch [at] physik.lmu.de
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Florian Saran
Technician – engineering
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Saran, Florian
Technician – engineering
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14132
Email: florian.saran [at] lmu.de
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Gregor Schilling
Technician – laser engineering
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: 036
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14108
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 6714 (2019)
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Physical Review X 9, 011046 (2019)
Schilling, Gregor
Technician – laser engineering
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14108
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
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Prof. Dr. Jörg Schreiber
Research Group leader of LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Nature Communications 11, 6174 (2020)
Temporally resolved intensity contouring (TRIC) for characterization of the absolute spatio-temporal intensity distribution of a relativistic, femtosecond laser pulse
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7697 (2019)
Sub-cycle dynamics in relativistic nanoplasma acceleration
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7321 (2019)
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
Schreiber, Jörg
Research Group leader of LION
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54025
Email: Joerg.Schreiber [at] lmu.de
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Dr. Wolfgang Schweinberger
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in BIRD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 125
Laboratory: 209
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54054
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
Phase-matching for generation of isolated attosecond XUV and soft-X-ray pulses with few-cycle drivers
Journal: Physical Review X 10, 041011 (2020)
Probing molecular environment through photoemission delays
Journal: Nature Physics 16, 778 (2020)
Optimum sample thickness for trace analyte detection with field-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Journal: Analytical Chemistry 92, 7508 (2020)
- 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
Schweinberger, Wolfgang
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in BIRD
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54054
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
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Dr. Jerzy Szerypo
Target engineering
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Physik
LEX Photonics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Szerypo, Jerzy
Target engineering
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14089
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Dr. Michael Trubetskov
Senior scientistResearch in BIRD, AMO
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Optics & Laser Technology 142, 107192 (2021)
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Journal: Angewandte Chemie 60, 17060 (2021)
Stability of person-specific blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints opens up prospects for health monitoring
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 1511 (2021)
- 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
Trubetskov, Michael
Senior scientistResearch in BIRD, AMO
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54062
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Dr. Liudmila Voronina
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in BIRD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 127
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54055
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.54057
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
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Journal: Angewandte Chemie 60, 17060 (2021)
Stability of person-specific blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints opens up prospects for health monitoring
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 1511 (2021)
- 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
Voronina, Liudmila
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in BIRD
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54055
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
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Dr. Haochuan Wang
Postdoctoral scientist in FRS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Office: E 40
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14080
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53309
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
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 5304 (2021)
High-energy and high-power multi-octave pulse generation
Journal: (2020)
Multi-octave, CEP-stable source for high-energy field synthesis
Journal: Science Advances 6, eaax3408 (2020)
- Matthias Kling
Wang, Haochuan
Postdoctoral scientist in FRS
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14080
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53309
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Klaus Wirgler
Design
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Physik
LEX Photonics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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Dr. Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Operations manager LEX/CALA
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Physik
LEX Photonics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: E 27
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14023
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14034
- Katharina Adler
- Klaus Franke
- Martin Groß
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
Wirth, Hans-Friedrich
Operations manager LEX/CALA
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14023
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14034
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Sabine Witzens
Study nurse
LMU Klinikum Großhadern
Marchioninistraße 15
81377 Munich
- 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
Witzens, Sabine
Study nurse
Phone (office): +49.89.440076726
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Dr. Johannes Wulz
Engineer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
On the detection of footprints from strong electron acceleration in high-intensity laser fields, including the Unruh effect
Journal: AIP Conference Proceedings 1228, 54 (2010)
Wulz, Johannes
Engineer
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14058
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Dr. Mihaela Žigman
Research group leader, cmf life-science research group
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: BMC Cancer 21, 1287 (2021)
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Journal: Angewandte Chemie 60, 17060 (2021)
- 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
Žigman, Mihaela
Research group leader, cmf life-science research group
Advanced multilayer optics
Dr. Volodymyr Pervak
Research Group leader of AMO
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: 204
Laboratory: E 6 - E 9
Laboratory: E 10
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14125
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.14011
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
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
Journal: Optica 9, 42 (2022)
Distributed kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator
Journal: Ultrafast Science 2022, 9837892 (2022)
Efficient nonlinear compression of a thin-disk oscillator to 8.5 fs at 55 W average power
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 5304 (2021)
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Michael Trubetskov
Volodymyr Pervak
Research Group leader of AMO
Daniel Hahner
Phd studentResearch in AMO
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Optics & Laser Technology 142, 107192 (2021)
3–6 μm dispersive mirrors compensating for dispersion introduced by the GaAs crystal
Journal: Applied Optics 60, 9249 (2021)
Comparison of magnetron sputtering and ion beam sputtering on dispersive mirrors
Journal: Applied Physics B 126, 82 (2020)
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Daniel Hahner
Phd studentResearch in AMO
Bernd Jäger
Technician – optical coating
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14019
- Daniel Hahner
- Siegfried Mittler
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Bernd Jäger
Technician – optical coating
Siegfried Mittler
Technician – optical coating
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Volodymyr Pervak
- Michael Trubetskov
Siegfried Mittler
Technician – optical coating
Attosecond metrology 2.0
Dr. Dmitrii Kormin
Postdoctoral scientist
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Development of high power pump laser for future sources of isolated attosecond pulses
Journal: (2021)
Spectral broadening of 112 mJ, 1.3 ps pulses at 5 kHz in a LG<sub>10</sub> multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 929 (2021)
Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic surface high harmonics
Journal: Optica 6, 280 (2019)
Dmitrii Kormin
Postdoctoral scientist
Attosecond metrology PIII
Dr. Nathalie Nagl
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in HFS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: 220
Laboratory: 218
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54034
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.14020
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
Journal: (2021)
Multi-octave spanning, Watt-level ultrafast mid-infrared source
Journal: JPhys Photonics 1, 044006 (2019)
Directly diode-pumped, Kerr-lens modelocked, few-cycle Cr:ZnSe oscillator
Journal: Optics Express 27, 24445 (2019)
- Sebastian Gröbmeyer
- Maciej Kowalczyk
- Shizhen Qu
- Aleksandar Sebesta
- Philipp Steinleitner
Nathalie Nagl
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in HFS
Broadband infrared diagnostics
Dr. Mihaela Žigman
Research group leader, cmf life-science research group
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: BMC Cancer 21, 1287 (2021)
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Journal: Angewandte Chemie 60, 17060 (2021)
- 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
Mihaela Žigman
Research group leader, cmf life-science research group
Tarek Eissa
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
- 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
Dr. Ernst Fill
Senior scientistResearch in BIRD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 127
Laboratory: 209
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54055
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
Email: ernst.fill [at] mpq.mpg.de
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Field-resolved infrared spectroscopy of biological systems
Journal: Nature 577, 52 (2020)
Human beings as islands of stability: monitoring body states using breath profiles
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 16167 (2019)
- 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
Ernst Fill
Senior scientistResearch in BIRD
Dr. Frank Fleischmann
Biorepository manager
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 129
Laboratory: 010
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54056
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.54057
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
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Field-resolved infrared spectroscopy of biological systems
Journal: Nature 577, 52 (2020)
- 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
Frank Fleischmann
Biorepository manager
Daniel Gerz
Phd studentResearch in BIRD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 131
Laboratory: U 108
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54090
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
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/YbF<sub>3</sub> mirrors for mid-infrared spectral range
Journal: Optics Letters 44, 5210 (2019)
Multi-octave spanning, Watt-level ultrafast mid-infrared source
Journal: JPhys Photonics 1, 044006 (2019)
Mid-infrared long-pass filter for high-power applications based on grating diffraction
Journal: Optics Letters 44, 3014 (2019)
- 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
Daniel Gerz
Phd studentResearch in BIRD
Eric Grießinger
Bioengineer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
- 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
Eric Grießinger
Bioengineer
Dr. Marinus Huber
Postdoctoral scientist in BIRD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 127
Laboratory: 209
Laboratory: 010
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54055
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.54057
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
Journal: BMC Cancer 21, 1287 (2021)
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Journal: Angewandte Chemie 60, 17060 (2021)
- 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
Marinus Huber
Postdoctoral scientist in BIRD
Daniel Meyer
Biological technical assistant
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 129
Laboratory: 010
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54056
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.54057
- 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 Meyer
Biological technical assistant
Dr. Michael Trubetskov
Senior scientistResearch in BIRD, AMO
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Optics & Laser Technology 142, 107192 (2021)
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Journal: Angewandte Chemie 60, 17060 (2021)
Stability of person-specific blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints opens up prospects for health monitoring
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 1511 (2021)
- 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
Michael Trubetskov
Senior scientistResearch in BIRD, AMO
Dr. Liudmila Voronina
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in BIRD
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 127
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54055
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.53308
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.54057
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
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Journal: Angewandte Chemie 60, 17060 (2021)
Stability of person-specific blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints opens up prospects for health monitoring
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 1511 (2021)
- 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
Liudmila Voronina
Postdoctoral scientistResearch in BIRD
Sabine Witzens
Study nurse
LMU Klinikum Großhadern
Marchioninistraße 15
81377 Munich
- 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
Sabine Witzens
Study nurse
Field-resolved infrared metrology
Associated groups
Prof. Dr. Stefan Karsch
Research Group leader of high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14040
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
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
Spectral broadening of 112 mJ, 1.3 ps pulses at 5 kHz in a LG<sub>10</sub> multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 929 (2021)
Ionization-induced subcycle metallization of nanoparticles in few-cycle pulses
Journal: ACS Photonics 7, 3207 (2020)
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Stefan Karsch
Research Group leader of high-field lasers and applications
Prof. Dr. Jörg Schreiber
Research Group leader of LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Nature Communications 11, 6174 (2020)
Temporally resolved intensity contouring (TRIC) for characterization of the absolute spatio-temporal intensity distribution of a relativistic, femtosecond laser pulse
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7697 (2019)
Sub-cycle dynamics in relativistic nanoplasma acceleration
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7321 (2019)
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
Jörg Schreiber
Research Group leader of LION
Klaus Allinger
Phd student in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7697 (2019)
A transportable Paul-trap for levitation and accurate positioning of micron-scale particles in vacuum for laser-plasma experiments
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 013302 (2018)
Dynamics of laser-driven proton acceleration exhibited by measured laser absorptivity and reflectivity
Journal: Scientific Reports 7, 43548 (2017)
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Klaus Allinger
Phd student in LION
Dr. Gaia Barbiero
Postdoctoral scientist in FRNS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 5304 (2021)
Multi-octave, CEP-stable source for high-energy field synthesis
Journal: Science Advances 6, eaax3408 (2020)
High energy, sub-cycle, field synthesizers
Journal: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 25, 1900112 (2019)
- 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
Gaia Barbiero
Postdoctoral scientist in FRNS
Dr. Jianhui Bin
Postdoctoral scientist in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7697 (2019)
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 6714 (2019)
Enhanced laser-driven ion acceleration by superponderomotive electrons generated from near-critical-density plasma
Journal: Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 074801 (2018)
- Klaus Allinger
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Jianhui Bin
Postdoctoral scientist in LION
Dr. Andreas Döpp
Postdoctoral scientist in high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Physical Review X 9, 011046 (2019)
Dual-energy electron beams from a compact laser-driven accelerator
Journal: Nature Photonics 13, 263 (2019)
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Andreas Döpp
Postdoctoral scientist in high-field lasers and applications
Max Gilljohann
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 6714 (2019)
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Physical Review X 9, 011046 (2019)
- Andreas Döpp
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Max Gilljohann
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Johannes Götzfried
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: E 30
Laboratory: U 108
Phone (office): +49.89.289.54044
Phone (office): +49.89.289.53308
Demonstration of a compact plasma accelerator powered by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 6714 (2019)
Direct observation of plasma waves and dynamics induced by laser-accelerated electron beams
Journal: Physical Review X 9, 011046 (2019)
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Johannes Götzfried
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Peter Hilz
Phd student in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Laser-driven x-ray and proton micro-source and application to simultaneous single-shot bi-modal radiographic imaging
Journal: Nature Communications 11, 6174 (2020)
I-BEAT: Ultrasonic method for online measurement of the energy distribution of a single ion bunch
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 6714 (2019)
Ring-like spatial distribution of laser accelerated protons in the ultra-high-contrast TNSA-regime
Journal: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 60, 055010 (2018)
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Peter Hilz
Phd student in LION
Dr. Martin Kaumanns
Postdoctoral scientist in high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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 LG<sub>10</sub> multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 929 (2021)
Generation of energetic femtosecond pulses at high average power
Journal: (2020)
Multipass spectral broadening of 18 mJ pulses compressible from 1.3 ps to 41 fs
Journal: Optics Letters 43, 5877 (2018)
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Martin Kaumanns
Postdoctoral scientist in high-field lasers and applications
Mathias Krüger
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Office: B 1.45
Phone (office): +49.89.32905.326
Fax (office): +49.89.32905.649
On-target temporal characterization of optical pulses at relativistic intensity
Journal: Light: Science & Applications 8, 96 (2019)
Towards intense isolated attosecond pulses from relativistic surface high harmonics
Journal: Optica 6, 280 (2019)
Developing picosecond-pumped OPCPA system for relativistic atto-science
Journal: 2018 International Conference Laser Optics (ICLO) 18036339 (2018)
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Stefan Karsch
- Martin Kaumanns
- Enes Travac
Mathias Krüger
Phd student in high-field lasers and applications
Thomas Rösch
Phd student in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Nature Communications 9, 423 (2018)
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Jörg Schreiber
Thomas Rösch
Phd student in LION
Key leaders
Focus physics
Focus medicine
Public Outreach
Director
Prof. Dr. Ferenc Krausz
Director
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Klaus Franke
Office: 222 and W121
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14013
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
Email: klaus.franke [at] lmu.de
Nicole Buchwiser
Discover more at attoworld.de.
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
Journal: Ultrafast Science 2022, 9837892 (2022)
Breast-cancer detection using blood-based infrared molecular fingerprints
Journal: BMC Cancer 21, 1287 (2021)
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Ferenc Krausz
Director
Group leaders
Prof. Dr. Stefan Karsch
Research Group leader of high-field lasers and applications
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14040
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
Journal: Nature Communications 12, 2895 (2021)
Spectral broadening of 112 mJ, 1.3 ps pulses at 5 kHz in a LG10 multipass cell with compressibility to 37 fs
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 929 (2021)
Ionization-induced subcycle metallization of nanoparticles in few-cycle pulses
Journal: ACS Photonics 7, 3207 (2020)
- Andreas Döpp
- Max Gilljohann
- Katinka von Grafenstein
- Johannes Götzfried
- Martin Kaumanns
- Mathias Krüger
- Enes Travac
Stefan Karsch
Research Group leader of high-field lasers and applications
Dr. Volodymyr Pervak
Research Group leader of AMO
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: 204
Laboratory: E 6 - E 9
Laboratory: E 10
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14125
Phone (laboratory): +49.89.289.14011
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
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
Journal: Optica 9, 42 (2022)
Distributed kerr-lens mode-locked Yb:YAG thin-disk oscillator
Journal: Ultrafast Science 2022, 9837892 (2022)
Efficient nonlinear compression of a thin-disk oscillator to 8.5 fs at 55 W average power
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 5304 (2021)
- Daniel Hahner
- Bernd Jäger
- Siegfried Mittler
- Michael Trubetskov
Volodymyr Pervak
Research Group leader of AMO
Prof. Dr. Jörg Schreiber
Research Group leader of LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Nature Communications 11, 6174 (2020)
Temporally resolved intensity contouring (TRIC) for characterization of the absolute spatio-temporal intensity distribution of a relativistic, femtosecond laser pulse
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7697 (2019)
Sub-cycle dynamics in relativistic nanoplasma acceleration
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7321 (2019)
- Klaus Allinger
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
Jörg Schreiber
Research Group leader of LION
Dr. Mihaela Žigman
Research Group leader of BIRD
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: BMC Cancer 21, 1287 (2021)
Infrared molecular fingerprinting of blood-based liquid biopsies for the detection of cancer
Journal: eLife 10, 68758 (2021)
Molecular origin of blood-based infrared spectroscopic fingerprints
Journal: Angewandte Chemie 60, 17060 (2021)
- 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
Mihaela Žigman
Research Group leader of BIRD
Management
Katharina Adler
Accounting and finance
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
- Klaus Franke
- Martin Groß
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Katharina Adler
Accounting and finance
Klaus Franke
Office management LMU, Project Assistant
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: 222 and W121
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14013
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14141
Email: klaus.franke [at] lmu.de
- Katharina Adler
- Nicole Buchwiser
- Martin Groß
- Kerstin Schmidt-Buchmann
- Nicole Schober
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Klaus Franke
Office management LMU, Project Assistant
Dr. Martin Groß
Head of management CALA
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: W 123
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14116
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14059
Email: m.gross [at] lmu.de
Fission‐Fusion: A new reaction mechanism for nuclear astrophysics based on laser‐ion acceleration
Journal: AIP Conference Proceedings 1377, 88 (2011)
Laser particle acceleration: status and perspectives for nuclear physics
Journal: Acta Physica Polonica B 42, 843 (2011)
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
Journal: Applied Physics B 103, 485 (2010)
- Katharina Adler
- Klaus Franke
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
- Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Martin Groß
Head of management CALA
Dr. Nils Haag
Personal assistant / science management
Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
Laboratory of Attosecond Physics
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching
Office: C 1.28
Phone (office): +49.89.32905.361
Fax (office): +49.89.32905.649
Email: nils.haag [at] mpq.mpg.de
- Jannine Adam
- Barbara Spindler
Nils Haag
Personal assistant / science management
Dr. Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Operations manager LEX/CALA
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fakultät für Physik
LEX Photonics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
Office: E 27
Phone (office): +49.89.289.14023
Fax (office): +49.89.289.14034
- Katharina Adler
- Klaus Franke
- Martin Groß
- Silke Stähler-Schöpf
Hans-Friedrich Wirth
Operations manager LEX/CALA
Scientific staff
Klaus Allinger
Phd student in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Scientific Reports 9, 7697 (2019)
A transportable Paul-trap for levitation and accurate positioning of micron-scale particles in vacuum for laser-plasma experiments
Journal: Review of Scientific Instruments 89, 013302 (2018)
Dynamics of laser-driven proton acceleration exhibited by measured laser absorptivity and reflectivity
Journal: Scientific Reports 7, 43548 (2017)
- Jianhui Bin
- Peter Hilz
- Florian Lindner
- Thomas Rösch
- Jörg Schreiber
Klaus Allinger
Phd student in LION
Dr. Gaia Barbiero
Postdoctoral scientist in FRNS
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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
Journal: Optics Letters 46, 5304 (2021)
Multi-octave, CEP-stable source for high-energy field synthesis
Journal: Science Advances 6, eaax3408 (2020)
High energy, sub-cycle, field synthesizers
Journal: IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 25, 1900112 (2019)
- 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
Gaia Barbiero
Postdoctoral scientist in FRNS
Dr. Jianhui Bin
Postdoctoral scientist in LION
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Faculty of Physics
Chair of Experimental Physics – Laser Physics
Am Coulombwall 1
85748 Garching
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