Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy
Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy

MBI Staff Member – Personal info

Dr. Matthias Schnuerer

matthias.schnuerer(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1315

B3: Laser Development
Building B, 3.8

Position

  • Department Head B3 (acting) "Laser Development"
  • Project Coordinator 4.2 "Application Laboratories and Technology Transfer"

Research

During the last 15 years my research was concentrated on high field physics and laser driven matter acceleration. Focus was put on laser driven ion beam generation, source characterization, energy transformation processes in context with acceleration mechanisms. As a specific method proton imaging was developed further to study relativistic plasma dynamics. Furthermore project work was realized in laser driven electron acceleration, in operation and parameter improvement of high intensity laser systems.

In my physics diploma and PhD-work I studied deep temperature effects of electronic carrier mobility in metal oxide-oxide semiconductor structures. I got the chance to change to laser-plasma physics and started with ns-laser driven plasmas and its dynamics. These research activities comprised especially incoherent soft X-ray emission characteristics, related plasma diagnostic and colliding plasma interaction. With the advent of chirped-pulse amplification lasers my activities moved to interaction experiments with ps-, fs- and few cycle laser pulses. Special attention was paid to incoherent hard X-ray emission from laser plasmas in connection with energy transport, coherent XUV-emission from high density (X-ray laser) and gaseous density (high harmonic emission) plasmas, as well as to incoherent EUV-emission in connection with the dynamics of fs- laser exploded clusters and fusion neutron diagnostics in spray and spherical micro-droplet experiments. During the last years effects of collective electron dynamics in relativistic laser fields allowed to study several new findings in ion, electron and high harmonic emission.

In the face of completing relativistic plasma and ultra-high intensity laser physics projects at MBI I am looking forward to new tasks.

Curriculum vitae

since 2007: Department head (acting), MBI, Berlin

2001: Habilitation, Technical University (TU) Wien

since 2000: Scientific researcher, MBI, Berlin

1997-2000: Scientific employee associate at the Photonics Institute, TU Wien

1991-1997: Scientific employee associate, Max-Born-Institute (MBI), Berlin

1984-1991:} Scientific employee associate,Central Institute of Optics and Spectroscopy (ZOS), Berlin

1984: PhD in Physics, HU Berlin

1982: Diploma in Physics, Humboldt-University (HU) Berlin

MBI Publications

  1. Fast and cold negative ion and neutral atom beams from a water spray

    S. Ter-Avetisyan, M. Schnürer, V. Tikhonchuk

    Journal of Applied Physics 134 (2023) 063302/1-8
  2. Ultrafast element- and depth-resolved magnetization dynamics probed by transverse magneto-optical Kerr effect spectroscopy in the soft x-ray range

    M. Hennecke, D. Schick, T. Sidiropoulos, F. Willems, A. Heilmann, M. van Moerbeck-Bock, L. Ehrentraut, D. Engel, P. Hessing, B. Pfau, M. Schmidbauer, A. Furchner, M. Schnuerer, C. von Korff Schmising, S. Eisebitt

     Physical Review Research 4 (2022) L022062/1-7
  3. Ultrafast NEXAFS spectroscopy in the lab using laser-based sources and advanced X-ray optics

    H. Stiel, J. Braenzel, J. Tuemmler, A. Jonas, I. Mantouvalou, A. Erko, A. Heilmann, van Moerbeck-Bock, M., M. Schnürer

     SPIE Proceedings Series 11886 (2021) 11886 12/1-9
  4. High average power OPCPA MIR-systems for coherent soft x-ray generation accessing inner-shell absorption edges of metals

    M. van Moerbeck-Bock, T. Feng, A. Heilmann, L. Ehrentraut, H. Stiel, M. Hennecke, T. Sidiropoulos, C. von Korff Schmising, S. Eisebitt, M. Schnürer

     SPIE Proceedings Series 11777 (2021) online
  5. 27 W 2.1 µm OPCPA system for coherent soft X-ray generation operating at 10 kHz

    T. Feng, A. Heilmann, van Moerbeck-Bock, M., L. Ehrentraut, T. Witting, H. H. Yu, H. Stiel, S. Eisebitt, M. Schnürer

     Optics Express 28 (2020) 8724/1-10
  6. Controlling energy distribution of fast ions and X-ray emission via target reliefs in ultrafast and relativistic laser plasma interaction

    A. Andreev, M. V. Sedov, K. Yu. Platonov, A. Lübcke, M. Schnürer

     Physics of Plasmas 26 (2019) 113110/1-13
  7. Monitoring of evolving laser induced periodic surface structures

    A. Lübcke, Z. Pápa, M. Schnürer

     Applied Sciences 9 (2019) 3636/1-12
  8. Parametric study of cycle modulation in laser driven ion beams and acceleration field retrieval at femtosecond time scale

    M. Schnürer, J. Braenzel, A. Lübcke, A. A. Andreev

     Physical Review Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams 22 (2019) 014201/1-9
  9. Soft X-ray nanoscale imaging using a superresolution CCD camera

    A. Lübcke, J. Braenzel, A. Dehlinger, M. Schnürer, H. Stiel, P. Guttmann, S. Rehbein, G. Schneider, S. Werner, R. Kemmler, S. Ritter, M. Raugust, T. Wende, M. Behrendt, M. Regehly

     Review of Scientific Instruments 90 (2019) 043111/1-9
  10. A transportable Paul-trap for levitation and accurate positioning of micron-scale particles in vacuum for laser-plasma experiments

    T. M. Ostermayr, J. Gebhard, D. Haffa, D. Kiefer, C. Kreuzer, K. Allinger, C. Bömer, J. Braenzel, M. Schnürer, I. Cermak, J. Schreiber, P. Hilz

     Review of Scientific Instruments 89 (2018) 013302/1-11