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Prof. Dr. Reinhard Kienberger

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Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsQuantum Optics
Keywordsattoseconds physics, coherent keV-photon-energy radiation, electron dynamics in molecules, electron dynamics in solids, light waveform synthesis

Current contact address

CountryGermany
CityGarching
InstitutionTechnische Universität München
InstituteE18: Lehrstuhl für Physik I (Experimentalphysik)

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Ferenc KrauszLaboratory for Attosecond & High-Field Physics (LAP), Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (MPQ), Garching
Start of initial sponsorship01/01/2007

Programme(s)

2006Sofja Kovalevskaja Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Using x-ray flashes to visualise inconceivable speed If you want to observe and understand how chemical bonds evolve, how electrons move in semi-conductors or how light is turned into chemical energy through photosynthesis, you have to be pretty fast, because in these chemical, atomic or biological processes we are dealing with fractions of a second, so-called attoseconds, which last no longer than a trillionth of a second. Reinhard Kienberger has significantly contributed to developing observation methods which use ultra fast, intensive x-ray flashes on the attosecond scale to visualise and, in future maybe even to be able to control what has so far been unobservable. Novel lasers based on ultraviolet light or x-rays as well as improved radiation therapies in medicine are just a few of the possible future applications ensuing from the young discipline of attosecond research.

Publications (partial selection)

2011M. Fieß, B. Horvath, T. Wittmann, W. Helml, Y. Cheng, B Zeng, Z. Xu, A. Scrinzi, J. Gagnon, F. Krausz, R.Kienberger: Attosecond control of tunneling ionization and electron trajectories. In: New J. Phys., 2011, 1367-2630
2011M. Hofstetter, M. Schultze, M. Fieß, B. Dennhardt, A. Guggenmos, J. Gagnon, V. S. Yakovlev, E. Goulielmakis, R. Kienberger, E. M. Gullikson, F. Krausz, U. Kleineberg: Attosecond dispersion control by extreme ultraviolet multilayer mirrors. In: Optics Express, 2011, 1767-1776
2011A. M. Sayler, Tim Rathje, Walter Müller, Klaus Rühle, R. Kienberger, and G. g. Paulus: Precise, real-time, every-single-shot, carrier-envelope phase measurement of ultrashort laser pulses. In: Opt. Lett, 2011, 1-3
2011F. Reiter, U. Graf, E.e. Serebryannikov, W. Schweinberger, M. Fieß, M. Schultze, A. M. Azzeer, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, A. M. Zheltikov, E. Goulielmakis: Route to Attosecond Nonlinear Spectroscopy. In: PRL, 2011, 24
2010A. Cavalieri, F. Krausz, R. Ernstorfer, R. Kienberger, P. Feulner, J. Barth, D. Menzel: Attosecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopy at Surfaces, in Dynamics at Solid Surfaces and Interfaces. Wiley-VCH. 2010.
2010E. M. Bothschafter, A. Schiffrin, V. S. Yakovlev, A. M. Azzeer, F. Krausz, R. Ernstorfer, and R. Kienberger: Collinear generation of ultrashort UV and XUV pulses. In: Opt. Exp., 2010, 9173
2010M. Schultze, M. Fieß, N. Karpowicz, J. Gagnon, M. Korbmann, M. Hofstetter, S. Neppl, A. Cavalieri, Y. Komninos, Th. Mercouris, C. A. Nicolaides, R. Pazourek, S. Nagele, J. Feist, J. Burgdörfer, A. M. Azzeer, R. Ernstorfer, R. Kienberger, U. Kleineberg, E. Goulielmakis, F. Krausz and V. S. Yakovlev: Delay in Photoemission. In: Science (online), 2010, 1645
2010M. Schultze, R. Kienberger: Elektronenjagd mit Attosekundenblitzen. In: Physik Journal, 2010, 39
2010A. M. Zheltikov, A. A. Voronin, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, G. Korn: Frequency-Tunable Multigigawatt Sub-Half-Cycle Light Pulses from Coupled-State Dynamics of Optical Solitons and Impulsively Driven Molecular Vibrations. In: PRL, 2010, 103901
2010F. Reiter, U. Graf, M. Schultze, W. Schweinberger, H. Schröder, N. Karpowicz, A. M. Azzeer, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, E. Goulielmakis,: Generation of sub-3 fs pulses in the deep ultraviolet. In: Optics Letters, 2010, 2248
2010M. Fieß, M. Schultze, E. Goulielmakis, B. Dennhardt, J. Gagnon, M. Hofstetter, R. Kienberger, and F. Krausz: Versatile apparatus for attosecond metrology and spectroscopy. In: Rev. Sci. Inst., 2010, 9
2009X. Gu, G. Marcus, Y. Deng, Th. Metzger, C. Teisset, N. Ishii, T. Fuji, A. Baltuska, H. Ishizuki, T. Taira, T. Kobayashi, R. Kienberger and F. Krausz: Generation of carrier-envelope phase-stable 2-cycle 650 µJ pulses at 2.1-µm carrier wavelength. In: Optics Express , 2009, 62
2009T. Metzger, A. Schwarz, C. Y. Teisset, D. Sutter, A. Killi, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz: High repetition-rate picosecond pump laser based on a Yb:YAG disk amplifier for optical parametric amplification . In: Optics Letters, 2009, 2123
2009T. Wittmann, B. Horvath, W. Helml, M. G. Schätzel, X. Gu, A. L. Cavalieri, G. G. Paulus, R. Kienberger: Single-Shot Carrier-Envelope Phase Measurement of Few-Cycle Laser Pulses. In: Nature Physics, 2009, 357-362
2008U. Graf, M. Fieß, M. Schultze, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz and E. Goulielmakis: Intense few-cycle light pulses in the deep ultraviolet. In: Optics Express, 2008, 18956
2008E. Goulielmakis, M. Schultze, M. Hofstetter, V. Yakovlev, J. Gagnon, M. Uiberacker, A. L. Aquila, A. M. Gullikson, D. T. Attwood, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, U. Kleineberg: Single-cycle nonlinear optics. In: Science, 2008, 1614
2007E. Goulielmakis, V. Yakovlev, A. L. Cavalieri, M. Uiberacker, V. Pervak, A. Apolonsky, R. Kienberger, U. Kleineberg, F. Krausz: Attosecond Control and Measurement: Lightwave Electronics. In: Science, 2007, 769
2007R. Kienberger, M Uiberacker, MF Kling, F. Krausz: Attosecond physics comes of age: from tracing to steering electrons at sub-atomic scales. In: J. Mod. Opt. , 2007, 1985-1998
2007A. L. Cavalieri, N. Müller, Th. Uphues, V. Yakovlev, A. Baltuska, B. Horvath, B. Schmidt, L. Blümel, S. Hendel, P. M. Echenique, M. Drescher, U. Kleineberg, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, U. Heinzmann: Attosecond time-resolved photoemission from solids. In: Nature, 2007, 1029
2007A. L. Cavalieri, E. Goulielmakis, B. Horvath, W. Helml, M. Schultze, M. Fieß, V. Pervak, L. Veisz, V. Yakovlev, M. Uiberacker, A. Apolonski, F. Krausz, R. Kienberger: Intense 1.5-cycle near infrared laser waveforms and their use for the generation of ultrabroad-band soft-X-ray harmonic continua. In: New Journal of Physics, 2007, 242
2007A. L. Cavalieri, E. Goulielmakis, B. Horvath, W. Helml, M. Schultze, M. Fieß, V. Pervak, L. Veisz, V. Yakovlev, M Uiberacker, A. Apolonski, F. Krausz, R. Kienberger: Intense 1.5-cycle near infrared laser waveforms and their use for the generation of ultrabroad-band solft-X-ray hamonic continua. In: NJP, 2007, 242
2007F. Remacle, R. Kienberger, F. Krausz, R. D. Levine: On the feasibility of an ultrafast purely electronic reorganization in lithium hydride. In: Chemical Physics, 2007, 342-347
2007D.M. Fritz, D.A. Reis, B. Adams, R.A. Akre, J. Arthur, C. Blome, P.H. Bucksbaum, A.L. Cavalieri, S. Engemann, S. Fahy, R.W. Falcone, P.H. Fuoss, K.J. Gaffney, M.J. George, J. Hajdu, M.P. Hertlein, P.B. Hillyard, M. Horn von Hoegen, M. Kammler, J. Kaspar, R. Kienberger, P. Krejcik, S.H. Lee, A.M. Lindenberg, B. McFarland, D. Meyer, T. Montagne, E.D. Murray, A.J. Nelson, M. Nicoul, R. Pahl, J. Rudati, H. Schlarb, D.P. Siddons, K. Sokolowsky-Tinten, Th. Tschentscher, D. von der Linde, J.B. Hastings: Ultrafast Bond Softening in Bismuth: Mapping a Solid´s Interatomic Potential with X-rays. In: Science, 2007, 633
2006A. Scrinzi, M. Yu. Ivanov, R. Kienberger and D. M. Villeneuve: Attosecond Physics. In: J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys., 2006, R1-R37
2006R. Kienberger, F. Krausz: Attosecond laser pulses. McGraw-Hill, Yearbook of Science & Technology 2006. The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2006.
2006R. Kienberger, F. Kienberger: Erste Anwendungen einer jungen Disziplin. Jahrbuch der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. 2006.
2006MB. Gaarde, M. Murakami, R. Kienberger: Spatial separation of large dynamical blueshift and harmonic generation. In: Phys. Rev. A, 2006, 053401
2005R. Kienberger, F. Krausz: Attosecond control and spectroscopy of Electrons. SUPERSTRONG FIELDS IN PLASMAS. 2005. 385-394
2004Reinhard Kienberger, E. Goulielmakis, M. Uiberacker, A. Baltuska, V. Yakovlev, F. Bammer, A. Scrinzi, Th. Westerwalbesloh, U. Kleineberg, U. Heinzmann, M. Drescher, F. Krausz: Atomic Transient Recorder. In: Nature, 2004, 817-821