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Prof. Dr. Reinhard KienbergerTechnische Universität München
Department für Physik
James Franck Str.
85748 Garching, Germany
| phone: | (+49 89) 289 – 12837 |
| fax: | (+49 89) 289 – 12839 |
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| webpage: | http://www.attoworld.de/kienberger-group |
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Abteilung für Attosekundenphysik
Hans-Kopfermann-Str. 1
85748 Garching, Germany
| office: | G 2.21 |
| lab: | B 0.33 |
| phone: | (+49 89) 32905 – 731 (office) (+49 89) 32905 – 762 (lab) |
| fax: | (+49 89) 32905 – 649 |
research expertise and fields
- High intensity and ultrafast laser Physics. Full control on all laser pulse parameters including the carrier-envelope phase. Interaction of high intensity ultrafast laser pulses with matter
- Coherent ultrafast light sources based on high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from non-linear media. Characterization and optimization of HHG processes
- Attoscience. Generation and characterization of attosecond XUV pulses
- Attosecond pulse metrology and applications in ultrafast electron spectroscopy Attosecond control of electron wavepackages
- Electron acceleration using high intensity ultrafast laser pulses. Relativistic self focusing and channel formation in underdense plasmas
- Linac based coherent x-ray Physics. Metrology of ultrafast hard x-ray pulses
current interests and projects
- Attoscience. Generation and characterization of attosecond XUV pulses. Attosecond pulse metrology and applications in ultrafast electron spectroscopy.
- Extension of HHG to the 100-1000 eV (wavelength, ~12-1.2nm ) energy range, expected xuv pulse duration: <100 as
- Using THz radiation for HHG to extend the harmonic radiation energy
- Synthesis of tailored harmonic waveforms e.g. by using λ and 2λ as driving fields
- Improving the optical-field-driven streaking technique to ever higher driving field strengths and excitation energies for increasing the resolving power of the atomic transient recorder (ATR)
- Exploitation of adiabatic (QPM) and nonadiabatic phase matching techniques for HHG by using structured gas targets and/or shaped excitation waveforms
- Confinement of linear polarization of the driving laser field to less than an optical cycle by polarization gating
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