areas of expertise
The Joint LMU-MPQ Laboratory for Attosecond Physics (LAP) was established – with research facilities at both MPQ and LMU – in 2004 upon Prof. Ferenc Krausz’ joint appointment as Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik and Chair of Experimental Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. LAP unites the expertise of Prof. Krausz’ former Vienna Group with that of the former MPQ Laser-Plasma Group of Prof. Witte and of the several associated groups 
, resulting in a uniquely broad range of sub-fields of Ultrafast and High-Field Science covered by in-depth expertise. These include:
, resulting in a uniquely broad range of sub-fields of Ultrafast and High-Field Science covered by in-depth expertise. These include:
- attosecond/femtosecond/picosecond metrology & spectroscopy
- chirped ir/vis/uv/x-ray multilayer mirrors: design, fabrication & characterisation
- diode-pumped solid-state laser oscillators and amplifiers
- few-femtosecond laser oscillators and amplifiers
- few-femtosecond optical parametric amplifiers
- intense few-cycle pulses with controlled waveform
- light-matter interactions at gigawatt to petawatt power levels
- laser-plasma experiments below/above critical density
- laser-driven particle (electron, positron, proton, neutron) sources
- multiterawatt laser technology
- xuv and x-ray light: generation & applications
Fig. 1. Chirped mirrors. (© thn)