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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