Prof Jens Biegert
Prof Jens Biegert
ICFO welcomes a new group leader
Prof Jens Biegert, ICREA research professor at ICFO, will lead a new research program in Attoscience
March 06, 2007
Prof. Jens Biegert has recently joined ICFO to open a new research area in Attocience and Ultrafast Optics.
He aims at generating the shortest flash of light, which he will use to probe profound physics theories, providing a systematic approach to understand and control chemical reaction pathways, and ultimately advance biological dynamic imaging. His group will work in a highly interdisciplinary field which fuses ultrafast laser physics, extreme nonlinear optics, atomic and molecular physics, XUV synchrotron optics, UHV technology, and electron-ion coincidence imaging techniques.
Previous to ICFO, Prof. Biegert was a group leader in high field physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland. His group succeeded in generating one of the shortest laser pulses (3.8 fs = 1.4 cycles), phase-stable chirped pulse optical parametric amplification, as well as few-cycle pulse generation through self-filamentation. Such pulses were used for a first proof of principle experiment to demonstrate coherent control of high harmonic generation and for attosecond imaging of wavepacket steering with a reaction microscope (COLTRIMS).
He has joined ICFO as a research professor funded by ICREA, the prestigious Catalan agency established in 2001 to attract top scientists into Catalonia.
He aims at generating the shortest flash of light, which he will use to probe profound physics theories, providing a systematic approach to understand and control chemical reaction pathways, and ultimately advance biological dynamic imaging. His group will work in a highly interdisciplinary field which fuses ultrafast laser physics, extreme nonlinear optics, atomic and molecular physics, XUV synchrotron optics, UHV technology, and electron-ion coincidence imaging techniques.
Previous to ICFO, Prof. Biegert was a group leader in high field physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland. His group succeeded in generating one of the shortest laser pulses (3.8 fs = 1.4 cycles), phase-stable chirped pulse optical parametric amplification, as well as few-cycle pulse generation through self-filamentation. Such pulses were used for a first proof of principle experiment to demonstrate coherent control of high harmonic generation and for attosecond imaging of wavepacket steering with a reaction microscope (COLTRIMS).
He has joined ICFO as a research professor funded by ICREA, the prestigious Catalan agency established in 2001 to attract top scientists into Catalonia.