Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

MBI Staff Member – Personal info

Dr. Lauren Drescher

lauren.drescher(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1238

A2: Ultrafast XUV-Physics
Building A, 2.19

Position

Postdoctoral Researcher in Departement A2

 

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Research

Attosecond Carrier Dynamics in Solid State Materials

We are interested in studying the dynamics of excited carriers in solid state materials during and following optical excitation with the aim to better understand many-body dynamics and potential development of novel and improved semiconductor and optoelectronic devices. Our focus therein lies in understanding the fundamental dynamics that lead to excitation of carriers by light, their relaxation, equilibrization and thermalization as well as their transport and diffusion. The use of extreme ultra-violet (XUV) pulses of attosecond duration by High-Harmonic Generation (HHG) thereby not only allows us to follow these dynamics on their natural timescales, but also gives us core-level insight, allowing a element-localized view and disentangle different band-contributions energetically with high resolution.

Circular Dichroic Attosecond Spectroscopy

Recently, we introduced circular dichroic attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy (cDATAS). This method uses circularly-polarized attosecond XUV pulses and co- or counter-rotating near-infrared (NIR) to visible (VIS) pulses to excited opticall oriented states. In materials with spin-orbit coupling, this method allows us to study spin-dependent dynamics, offering a novel insight into the systems studied.

 

MBI Publications

  1. Attosecond optical orientation

    L. B. Drescher, N. Mayer, K. Gannan, J. R. Adelman, S. R. Leone

     Physical Review Letters 135 (2025) 163201/1-8
  2. Experimental control of quantum-mechanical entanglement in an attosecond pump-probe experimentL.-M. Koll, L. Maikowski, L. Drescher, T. Witting, M. J. J. Vrakking Physical Review Letters 128 (2022) 043201/1-6
  3. Extreme-ultraviolet spectral compression by four-wave mixingL. Drescher, O. Kornilov, T. Witting, V. Shokeen, M. J. J. Vrakking, B. Schütte Nature Photonics 15 (2021) 263–266
  4. Vibrational relaxation of XUV-induced hot ground state cations of Naphthalene

    G. Reitsma, S. Patchkovskii, J. Dura, L. Drescher, J. Mikosch, M. J. J. Vrakking, O. Kornilov

     Journal of Physical Chemistry A 125 (2021) 8549-8556
  5. Attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy without inversion symmetryL. Drescher, M. J. J. Vrakking, J. Mikosch Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 53 (2020) 164005/1-9
  6. Transient dipole-interactions on sub-cycle timescalesL. DrescherDissertation Freie Universität (2020)
  7. State-resolved probing of attosecond timescale molecular dipolesL. Drescher, G. Reitsma, T. Witting, S. Patchkovskii, J. Mikosch, M.J.J. Vrakking The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10 (2019) 265–269
  8. Extreme-ultraviolet refractive opticsL. Drescher, O. Kornilov, T. Witting, G. Reitsma, N. Monserud, A. Rouzée, J. Mikosch, M. J. J. Vrakking, B. Schütte Nature 564 (2018) 91–94
  9. Communication: XUV transient absorption spectroscopy of iodomethane and iodobenzene photodissociationL. Drescher, M. C. E. Galbraith, G. Reitsma, J. Dura-Diez, N. Zhavoronkov, S. Patchkovskii, M. J. J. Vrakking, J. Mikosch Journal of Chemical Physics 145 (2016) 011101/1-5