Year: 2020

An ERC Advanced Grant, which comes with third-party funding of up to 2.5 million euros, has just been awarded to Professor Hommelhoff -- a great success, not only because of the large amount of money raised, which will be available for research at the chair over five years, but also because this fun...

This is a great success for Prof. Martin Hundhausen, senior academic councillor in our institute: He has just been elected to the Erlangen city council. Congratulations -- and good luck for the city politics with lots of physical expertise!

Prof. Dr. Lothar Ley, who held this chair until not too many years ago, has been named an "outstanding referee" by the American Physical Society APS - a distinction that highlights his particularly great and helpful commitment in the review process of the journals published by APS. Amongst these are...

Congratulations to DR. Christian Heide on defending his thesis --  with distinction!

Controlling electrons with optical fields of few-cycle laser pulses opens an avenue to coherently manipulate electron trajectories inside of materials. This control gives access to rich physics such as quantum path interference and topological effects . Recently we could experimentally demonstrate ...

How do optical near-fields between two ultrasharp metal needles of femtosecond laser pulses couple at the nanometer level? This question is addressed in our manuscript just published in PRB. Together with our colleagues from the Chair of Solid State Physics, we developed a scanning tunneling microsc...

Charge separation at an interface between two materials is a fundamental process in electronic components. It determines how fast signals can be transmitted in transistors and how efficiently power is generated in solar cells. Novel material combinations of stacked two-dimensional materials, so-call...

It's out there - released December 26. What a nice Christmas present - to us as well as to our Stanford partners. Thanks PRL!

We as the Chair of Laser Physics had the privilege and pleasure to host the Christmas Lecture of the Department of Physics 2019 on December 5th. A short review with pictures is now available as a website. The corresponding video recording will follow shortly.

Timo Eckstein wins Applied Photonics Award for the best master thesis in the field of Photonics. Congratulations! The award was handed over by Physics Noble Prize Winner Gerard Mourou and Zeiss CEO Michael Kaschke. More details can be found here.