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We describe an electron microscope whose electron emitter is operated with femtosecond laser pulses and a whole series of experiments with this device around electron acceleration using photonic structures in a publication that has just appeared in the Journal of Applied Physics. Apparently the arti...

For three years, we have been part of DFG priority programme "Quantum Dynamics in Tailored Intense Fields" (QUTIF) with a joint project together with the groups of Prof. Dr. Thomas Fennel (U Rostock) and Prof. Dr. Matthias Kling (LMU Munich) -- now our joint application for renewal has been positive...

This year's theme of the International Symposium of Advanced Photonics was Attosecond Science. Three of our group members had been generously invited to participate in the symposium taking place biannually close to Hamamatsu, Japan, at the beautiful Hamana lake. Please find more details here.

In yet another enjoyable and fruitful collaborative work with our Stanford partners, we could demonstrate purely optical control of electrons with the help of nanofabricated photonic structures. We demonstrate that we can accelerate electrons in not just one but two subsequent interaction regions, i...

Which are the next walls to fall? The aim of the Falling Walls Foundation is to remove the great hurdles of our time, such as the ubiquitous scepticism about founding a start-up - especially in Germany. Within the framework of the workshop "Young Entrepreneurs in Science", doctoral students were int...

Our recent paper on the demonstration of the longitudinal Kapitza-Dirac effect was featured with a commentary in the News & Views section of Nature Physics. In their insightful summary, Benoit Chalopin and Arnaud Arbouet describe our work on inelastic ponderomotive scattering of electrons at an ...

Recently, extremely fast phenomena in nature have become directly accessible due to the development of attosecond science. Imaging atoms and electrons in motion requires a probe that allows high spatial resolution on time-scales shorter than one oscillation of the light field. Imaging with light in ...

Just in time for the release of the next Star Wars film, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Marco Dettweiler) has examined lightsabers in its issue of Dec. 12, 2017. Whether and in what form they could be realized in the future has been commented on by Professor Hommelhoff ...

On Friday this week the Bavarian Secretary of the Interior Joachim Herrmann will come to our chair to augurate the new charging stations for electric cars together with us. A more detailed article will follow after the inauguration ceremony starting at 11 am. The program consists of: Welcoming: ...

Our former bachelor students Paul Beck and Timo Eckstein, as well as our former master student Philip Dienstbier, were awarded with the Ohm prize at this year's graduation ceremony. This award is dedicated to the "support of young researchers in the field of physics at the university of Erlangen-Nur...

Christian Heide has received the outstanding poster award at Synthetic Carbon Allotropes in Erlangen, which took place from september 24th to 27th. The poster describes his new data on coherent electron dynamics in graphene, controlled by the field of light. Congratlations! The Symposium web site...