news

December 2015
Posted at: 02 Dec 2015
Twice in a row selected for “Highlight in Optics”

Optics & Photonics has recently announced its list of the thirty 2015 highlighted articles of the year in its December issue. Our study, which appeared in Nature Communications, ICFO researchers Dr. Michael Pullen, Benjamin Wolter, Matthias Baudisch, and Dr. Michael Hemmer, led by ICREA Prof. at ICFO Dr. Jens Biegert, have developed the

Comments Off on Twice in a row selected for “Highlight in Optics”
November 2015
Posted at: 23 Nov 2015
Prof. Jens Biegert selected as 2016 OSA Fellow

Prof. Jens Biegert has been selected to join the 2016 class of Fellows of the Optical Society (OSA). He is being recognized “for pioneering work in the development of ultrashort and intense few cycle pulses in the midinfrared, and their use in analyzing the structure of molecules”. br> Recognizing members

Comments Off on Prof. Jens Biegert selected as 2016 OSA Fellow
September 2015
Posted at: 21 Sep 2015
Laser pulses for ultrahigh molecular sensitivity, in Nature Photonics

Researchers from the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics Group led by ICREA Prof. at ICFO Jens Biegert, in collaboration with the Laboratory for Attosecond Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (MPQ) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, have developed a worldwide unique broadband and coherent infrared light source.

Comments Off on Laser pulses for ultrahigh molecular sensitivity, in Nature Photonics
July 2015
Posted at: 24 Jul 2015
Dr. Stephan Teichmann graduated with a thesis in “Ponderomotively scaled high harmonic generation for attoscience in the water window”

Dr. Stephan Teichmann received the MSc in Physics from Imperial College London before joining the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics research group led by ICREA Prof. at ICFO Dr. Jens Biegert. At ICFO, he centered his doctoral work on studying high-order harmonic generation (HHG) in the attosecond time regime and developing

Comments Off on Dr. Stephan Teichmann graduated with a thesis in “Ponderomotively scaled high harmonic generation for attoscience in the water window”
June 2015
Posted at: 27 Jun 2015
Researchers image the structure and the response of atoms and molecules with powerful mid infrared electric fields

Time-resolved imaging of atoms and molecules is critical for understanding chemical reactions. To acquire such images, researchers typically bombard atoms or molecules with short laser pulses and then measure the emitted electron distribution. These pulses are often provided by near-infrared Ti:Sapphire lasers because they are more readily available, but the data

Comments Off on Researchers image the structure and the response of atoms and molecules with powerful mid infrared electric fields
Posted at: 24 Jun 2015
Imaging bond lengths with MIR-LIED

Nature Communications has recently published the work “Imaging an aligned polyatomic molecule with laser-induced electron diffraction” in which ICFO researchers Dr. Michael Pullen, Benjamin Wolter, Matthias Baudisch and Dr. Michael Hemmer, led by ICREA Prof. at ICFO Dr. Jens Biegert, have developed the recipe to take ‘snapshots’ of polyatomic molecular structure

Comments Off on Imaging bond lengths with MIR-LIED
May 2015
Posted at: 12 May 2015
Bringing technological innovations to market

The Generalitat de Catalunya has announced the results of a call to provide seed funding for innovative projects with market potential in the early stages of technological maturity. Clearly aiming to help ensure that new knowledge and technologies produced in research centers in Catalonia are translated into economic growth for

Comments Off on Bringing technological innovations to market
March 2015
Posted at: 28 Mar 2015
Optics Letters’ Top Ten

The Optical Society’s Optics Letters journal has recently included the study “2-μm wavelength, high-energy Ho:YLF chirped-pulse amplifier for mid-infrared OPCPA” in the top ten most downloaded articles in the month of February 2015. In this study, researchers report on a compact and stable laser system operating at 2-μm wavelength, delivering

Comments Off on Optics Letters’ Top Ten
Posted at: 20 Mar 2015
First proof of single attosecond pulse generation at the carbon K-edge.

In the recent study “Spatiotemporal isolation of attosecond pulses in the soft X-ray water window”, published in Nature Communications by the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics Group, led by ICREA Professor at ICFO Jens Biegert, the generation of isolated attosecond pulses at the carbon K-edge at 284 eV (4.4 nm), within the water

Comments Off on First proof of single attosecond pulse generation at the carbon K-edge.
December 2014
Posted at: 05 Dec 2014
Thales and ICFO sign a cooperation agreement on laser technology

ICFO and Thales, manufacturer of lasers for scientific and industrial markets, have signed a cooperation agreement for developing mid-infrared lasers at high energy and high repetition rate. With this collaboration, ICFO will develop lasers in the 3 to 6 micron wavelength domain delivering ultrashort pulses. Several technologies will be developed

Comments Off on Thales and ICFO sign a cooperation agreement on laser technology
December 2014
Page 2 of 41234