Each year, the December issue of Optics and Photonics News highlights the most exciting optics research to emerge in the preceding 12 months. A panel of editors reviewed a record 200 research summaries from scientists all over the globe. They selected for publication 30 reports that they felt most clearly communicated breakthroughs
Dr. Alexander Grün received his Master of Science (MSc) in Microelectronics from the Vienna University of Technology, Austria. After completing this degree, he joined the Attoscience and ultrafast optics research group at ICFO, led by Prof. Jens Biegert and centered his doctoral work on the generation of ultra-short (femtosecond) pulses
Fully grasping the process of photoionization of atoms and molecules constitutes one of the main aims in strong-field physics, a field of study which is constantly surprising us with its richness and complexity beyond our current understanding. A recent publication in Scientific Reports by the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics (AUO)
The first ELI-ALPS user workshop was held on 21-22 November in Szeged Hungary to disseminate and discuss scientific opportunities with the upcoming ultra brilliant light pulses and particle beams of ELI-ALPS. ICREA Professor at ICFO Jens Biegert, who is one of the authors of the whitebook which provides the foundation
The group led by ICREA Professor Jens Biegert is involved in the new COST Action “Advanced X-ray spatial and temporal metrology”. This Action aims to bring together and consolidate a large consortium in X-ray metrology, bridging communities from incoherent x-rays to high harmonics to FEL and synchrotrons. The EU COST
The group led by Prof. Jens Biegert reports in Nature Communications the generation of a world-record coherent high-energy 3.3 octave supercontinuum. The breakthrough, a coherent supercontinuum ranging from 450 nm to 4500 nm, was generated with the development of a source of intense few-cycle mid-IR pulses and nonlinear propagation in the
The Journal of Modern Optics has recently released a special focus issue on latest advances on strong field and attosecond physics, edited by Prof. Carla Figueira de Morrisson Faria, of the University College (London, UK) and ICREA Prof. Jens Biegert, leader at ICFO of the Attosecond Physics group. The issue
ICFO postdoctoral researcher Dr. Judith Dura was one of the organizers of the Attosecond and Ultrafast Physics meeting held on February 20-23 at the Centro de Ciencias Pedro Pascual in Benasque, Spain. She explained in a radio interview the aim of Attoscience research and current international developments in the field. The interview
On October 26, national newspaper El Pais highlighted the Attoscience and Ultrafast Optics lab at ICFO as one of the few places worldwide which have generated and measured attosecond pulses. Such an attosecond resolution camera is fast enough to track movements of electrons inside atoms and molecules. Potential applications are
With more than 560 researchers present, 540 oral contributions and 130 posters, LPHYS’09 achieved its record high in participation and scientific dissemination. The event was organized and chaired by Prof. Jens Biegert, and took place in Barcelona in July. Research was highlighted in 6 parallel sessions for 9 different research
