Year: 2020

Strict anti-virus propagation measures have again forced an apparently rather boring defense, but in terms of content this has not detracted from the matter: Norbert Schönenberger has defended his dissertation with great success. Congratulations!

Our long-time partner and frequent and especially welcome guest in Erlangen Mark Stockman PhD DSc, Regents Professor of Physics and Director of the Center for Nano Optics at Georgia State University, died on November 11th at the age of 73 years. Professor Stockman left his mark on entire fields of p...

Under the current corona protection conditions it is again hardly imaginable, but in September it was possible: We spent two and a half wonderful and highly interesting days at Hirschberg Castle in the pretty Altmühltal valley, to bring each other up to date and to be able to discuss our science in ...

The quantum coherent interaction of light with swift electrons represents the foundation of the fast-moving field of laser-based electron beam control including one of our major research projects of dielectric laser acceleration. In this work, we introduce the concept of intra-cycle interference, wh...

Congratulations to Dr. Tafel on the excellent defence of his dissertation! The well-deserved refreshment after the successful examination he was able to take off his doctoral cap right away.

Graphene, the 2-dimensional semi-metallic material with negligible screening effects at optical frequencies, can withstand high laser intensities and is therefore ideally suited to extend strong-field physics to a new material class – to 2D materials and to conductors. We recently found that after t...

Congratulations to DR. Timo Paschen, who defended his doctoral thesis with great success - and that in Corona times without an audience. But all four participants allowed in the room never got bored.  The doctor's hat was even specially equipped with anti-corona spacers.

Exactly 60 years ago, Theodore Maiman was the first person to generate flashes of laser light. How far we have come in laser-based research since then was compiled by Stewart Wills in a very nice article for the May issue of the free magazine "Optics and Photonics News". Our ACHIP project is feature...

What a nice surprise when we found out rather by chance that Nature Photonics chose the illustration for our article as cover picture. (For the article itself you can find a message further down here).