Open Positions

You will perform cutting-edge experimental research visualizing ultrafast dynamics inside molecules by using high-power femtosecond lasers to direct “Molecular Movies”.

Femtosecond laser pulses in the mid-infrared have a number of emerging applications in strong-field science, including the generation of high-order harmonics (i.e. multiples) of the original laser frequency. We have recently demonstrated that this allows measuring the carrier-envelope phase.

Recently we studied strong-field ionization of the rather unusual molecule argon-water, a compound of water molecule and argon atom, held together by van-der-Waals forces. To further investigate the structure of this argon-water molecule, we plan to use the Coulomb-explosion technique to employ a strong laser field for structural imaging.

Electron and ion dynamics in molecules are studied on the (sub-)femtosecond time scale using pump-probe experiments. These experiments require a very stable interferometer which introduces the delay between the pump and the probe laser pulse. The aim of this project is to implement and test an active interferometer stabilization based on an interfering reference cw laser.