2024
Access to attoseconds and more: DESY joins Lasers4EU
29 October 2024
Five DESY laser installations dedicated to ultrafast science are now part of a Europe-wide user access network.
New Publication in Nature Communications
28 October 2024
Few-femtosecond time-resolved study of the UV-induced dissociative dynamics of iodomethane
Editor's Pick in Review of Scientific Instruments
20 August 2024
A flexible beamline combining XUV attosecond pulses with few-femtosecond UV and near-infrared pulses for time-resolved experiments
Congratulations to our group member Sabine Rockenstein for having been selected Physikerin der Woche 2024 (calendar week 27).
08 July 2024
New Publication in Nature
23 May 2024
A new experimental approach provides the long-awaited tools to understand the role of electrons in the molecular chiral reactivity and offers a way to control physical and chemical properties that result from chiral interactions. The study, published in the journal “Nature”, was led by Universität Hamburg and DESY as part of a collaboration with the Centre Laser Intense et Applications (CELIA) and the Laboratoire de Chimie et Physique Quantiques (LCPQ) in France and the Max Born Institute in Berlin.
New Publication in Nano Letters
13 May 2024
The CFEL-ATTO team was part of an international collaboration between DESY, Stanford University, the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and the University of Hamburg, for which the results on plasmonic field sampling have just been published in Nano Letters. In this work we report the direct sampling of an emerging plasmonic field on the petahertz scale, using a technique which allows to characterize an electric field directly in the time domain with subcycle resolution. The observations may lead to new insights in the fields of nanophotonics and energy conversion.
New Publication in Journal of Physics: Photonics
08 March 2024
Members of the CFEL-ATTO group have collaborated with the group of Prof. Roberto Oselame from the Institute for Photonics and Nanotechnologies CNR-IFN in Milan (Italy) to develop a novel differentially-pumped integrated glass chip for the efficient generation of ultrashort UV radiation using Third Harmonic Generation. The results have been published in JPhys Photonics as a contribution to the special issue 'Emerging Leaders 2024'.
Nobel Laureate Anne L´Huillier visits DESY
23 January 2024
Attosecond researcher visits laboratories and gives a lecture