Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

MBI Staff Member – Personal info

Dr. Bernd Schuette

bernd.schuette(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1295

A4: Attosekunden-Pump Attosekunden-Probe Spektroskopie / A4: Attosecond-pump attosecond-probe spectroscopy
Building A, 3.14

Position

Department Head A4 "All-attosecond pump-probe spectrosocpy"

Project coordinator 2.1 "Attosecond phenomena"

Research

All-attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy

We have developed a unique setup for table-top all-attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy, allowing us to study extremely fast electron dynamics in atoms, molecules and solids. Currently, we are developing a new setup for all-attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy based on an ytterbium driving laser operating at 40 kHz. This will enable the investigation of attochemistry in moleucles that can be generated only at low densities in the gas phase.

Attosecond plasma lens

Lenses can usually not be used to focus ultrashort pulses in the few-femtosecond regime. To address this limitation, we developed a plasma lens capable of focusing the shortest man-made pulses, which lie in the attosecond range. This is achieved by generating a hydrogen plasma using a capillary discharge source

Curriculum vitae

since 2024: Department Head A4 "All-attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy"

2020-2024: Junior research group leader at Max-Born-Institut

2016-2019: Scientist at the Max-Born-Institut

2014-2016: Independent postdoc project at the Imperial College Londed funded by a research fellowship

2011:2014: Postdoc at the Max-Born-Institut

2008-2011: PhD at the University of Hamburg funded by a PhD scholarship

2005-2006: Erasmus student at University of Lund, Sweden

2002-2008: Undergraduate studies of physics at the University of Technology in Dresden

 

2016: 7th ISUILS Award for Young Reserachers

Funding

Funding from ELI-ALPS for the development of a velocity-map imaging endstation

MBI Publications

  1. Electron thermalization and ion acceleration in XUV-produced plasma from nanoparticles in He gas environment

    E. Klimesova, O. Kulyk, L. J. Martin, B. Schuette, U. Fruehling, M. Drescher, R. Pan, N. Stojanovic, I. J. Bermudez Macias, S. Duesterer, J. Andreasson, M. Wieland, M. Krikunova

     New Journal of Physics 27 (2025) 013004/1-9
  2. Terawatt-level three-stage pulse compression for all-attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy

    E. Sobolev, M. Volkov, E. Svirplys, J. Thomas, T. Witting, M. J. J. Vrakking, B. Schütte

     Optics Letters 32 (2024) 46251-46258
  3. Compact realization of all-attosecond pump-probe spectroscopy

    M. Kretschmar, E. Svirplys, M. Volkov, T. Witting, T. Nagy, M. J. J. Vrakking, B. Schütte

     Science Advances 10 (2024) 1-7
  4. High-order harmonic generation in a strongly overdriven regime

    B. Major, K. Kovács, E. Svirplys, M. Anus, O. Ghafur, K. Varjú, M. J. J. Vrakking, V. Tosa, B. Schütte

     Physical Review A 107 (2023) 023514/1-6
  5. Attosecond investigation of extreme-ultraviolet multi-photon multi-electron ionization

    M. Kretschmar, A. Hadjipittas, B. Major, J. Tümmler, I. Will, T. Nagy, M. J. J. Vrakking, A. Emmanouilidou, B. Schütte

     Optica 9 (2022) 639-644
  6. Intense XUV pulses from a compact HHG setup using a single harmonic

    M. Kretschmar, M. J. J. Vrakking, B. Schütte

     Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 54 (2021) 20LT01/1-6
  7. Compact intense extreme-ultraviolet source

    B. Major, O. Ghafur, K. Kovács, K. Varjú, V. Tosa, M. J. J. Vrakking, B. Schütte

     Optica 8 (2021) 960-965
  8. Extreme-ultraviolet spectral compression by four-wave mixing

    L. Drescher, O. Kornilov, T. Witting, V. Shokeen, M. J. J. Vrakking, B. Schütte

     Nature Photonics 15 (2021) 263–266
  9. Thin-disk laser-pumped OPCPA system delivering 4.4 TW few-cycle pulses

    M. Kretschmar, J. Tuemmler, B. Schütte, A. Hoffmann, B. Senfftleben, M. Mero, M. Sauppe, D. Rupp, M. J. J. Vrakking, I. Will, T. Nagy

     Optics Express 28 (2020) 34574-34585
  10. Field-induced tunneling ionization and terahertz-driven electron dynamics in liquid water

    A. Ghalgaoui, L.-M. Koll, B. Schütte, B. P. Fingerhut, K. Reimann, M. Woerner, T. Elsaesser

     Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 11 (2020) 7717–7722