press releases
On the following sites you find press releases in chronological order. The articles contain the scientific results of the LAP-Team. All informations and the additional pictures for illustrations can be used without charge, but we do ask that you credit attoworld.de as the source and include the name of the photographer cited.
1st May 2010: Attosecond Physics Becomes a Milestone
It is a field that has moved beyond its infancy. The physics of ultra-short light pulses continues to go through a period of rapid development, which began in 2001 when a team headed by Prof. Ferenc Krausz was able, for the first time ever, to generate controlled light pulses which lasted for just a few attoseconds. One attosecond is 1 billionth of 1 billionth of a second. With this technology it is now possible to almost “photograph” the breakneck movements of electrons. As a result one can gain insight into the so-far largely unknown universe of elementary particles and hence an insight into the fundamental processes of nature. The scientific journal Nature has now selected attosecond physics as one of the most significant milestones in photonics (Nature Milestones: Photons, 1 May 2010 
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9th December 2009: Tumors under fire
Munich physicists develop new method to generate highly energetic carbon beams using intense laser pulses.
6th November 2009: 4D films from the microcosm
Motion in the microcosm is to be recorded by a team at the Laboratory of Attosecond physics of LMU and MPQ by means of ultrashort flashes consisting of individual elecrons. The project is being funded with 2.5 million euro "ERC Advanced Investigator Grant" awarded by the European union to Prof. Ferenc Krausz.
27th September 2009: Miniature X-ray source using wiggling electrons
A LAP-team has succeeded in reducing X-ray sources of typically several kilometres in size to the dimensions of a dining table. This involved a new method using a combination of laser light and hydrogen plasma.
1st September 2009: Laser pulses control single electrons in complex molecules
A German-Dutch team with physicists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics AMOLF in Amsterdam and chemists from the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich achieved the control over single electrons in a multi-electron system with waveform shaped laser pulses.
27th July 2009: On quantum paths through the helium atom
Researchers of the Max Planck Institutes for Nuclear Physics (Heidelberg) and Quantum Optics (Garching) investigate for the first time helium atoms by means of electron holography in ultra-short laser pulses.
28th May 2009: A new look at the building blocks of life
Living matter exhibits an almost infinite variety of molecular diversity. An understanding of this complexity is only possible if particular structures are known in detail. However, many secrets of nature are still unsolved. A team at the Laboratory of Attosecond Physics (LAP) in the group of Dr. Ernst Fill, headed by Prof. Ferenc Krausz, has now taken an important step forward on the way to more detailed exploration of molecular structure.