MBI Staff Member – Personal info

Research

  • OPCPA development
    • Amplification of few-cycle pulses at high repetition rates
  • Nonlinear pulse compression
    • Generation of few- and near-single-cycle laser pulses
    • Hollow fibre pulse compression
    • Multiple plate continuum generation
  • Ultrafast metrology
    • Characterisation of few- / single-cycle pulses
    • Spatio-temporal pulse characterisation
    • Characterisation of attosecond VUV and XUV pulses
  • Attosecond science
    • Attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy
    • Attosecond fourier transform spectroscopy
    • Attosecond pump-probe experiments with a reaction microscope

my google scholar profile, my ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-1840

personal website: https://tobiaswitting.wordpress.com/

 

Curriculum vitae

2016 - present Senior Scientist Max-Born-Institut, Berlin, Germany
2010 – 2016 Consultant Physicist, Imperial Consultants Ltd, London, UK
2009 – 2011 Research Associate, Blackett Laboratory, Physics Department, Imperial College London, UK
2005 – 2005 Research Assistant, Institute of Physics and Center for Nanotechnology, University of Münster, Germany

Education:

2005 – 2009 DPhil Atomic & Laser Physics, University of Oxford, UK, Prof. Ian A. Walmsley
2003 – 2005 Diplom-Physiker, Physikalisches Institut, Universität Muenster, Germany

Recent highlight(s)

  • Control of entanglement in photoionization by phase-locked attosecond pulse pairs link
  • Attosecond pulses at 100 kHz. link
  • XUV lens with a gas jet link
  • Attosecond transient absorption spectroscopy in CH3I link
  • 100 kHz OPCPA system link

MBI Publications

  1. 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
  2. Phase cycling of extreme ultraviolet pulse sequences generated in rare gases

    A. Wituschek, O. Kornilov, T. Witting, L. Maikowski, F. Stienkemeier, M. J. J. Vrakking, L. Bruder

    New Journal of Physics 22 (2020) 092001/1-9
  3. In situ temporal measurement of ultrashort laser pulses at full power during high-intensity laser–matter interactions

    H. M. Crespo, T. Witting, M. Canhota, M. Miranda, J. W. G. Tisch

    Optica 7 (2020) 995-1002
  4. Generation and characterisation of few-pulse attosecond pulse trains at 100 kHz repetition rate

    M. Osolodkov, F. J. Furch, F. Schell, P. Susnjar, F. Cavalcante, C. Menoni, C. P. Schulz, T. Witting, M. J. J. Vrakking

    Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 53 (2020) 194003 /1-7
  5. Retrieval of attosecond pulse ensembles from streaking experiments using mixed state time-domain ptychography

    T. Witting, F. J. Furch, O. Kornilov, M. Osolodkov, C. P. Schulz, M. J. J. Vrakking

    Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 53 (2020) 194001/1-8
  6. Photoinscription of optical microstructures in fused silica with few-cycle pulses

    F. J. Furch, W. D. Engel, T. Witting, A. Perez-Leija, D. Biasetti, G. Torchia, M. J. J. Vrakking, A. Mermillod-Blondin

    SPIE Proceedings Series 11268 (2020) 11268ON/1-6
  7. High-repetition rate optical parametric chirped pulse amplification system for attosecond science experiments

    F. J. Furch, T. Witting, M. Osolodkov, F. Schell, C. P. Schulz, M. J. J. Vrakking

    SPIE Proceedings 11034 (2019) 110340I/1-7
  8. Single-step fabrication of surface waveguides in fused silica with few-cycle laser pulses

    F. J. Furch, W. D. Engel, T. Witting, M. J. J. Vrakking, A. Perez-Leija, A. Mermillod-Blondin

    Optics Letters 44 (2019) 4267-4270
  9. State-resolved probing of attosecond timescale molecular dipoles

    L. Drescher, G. Reitsma, T. Witting, S. Patchkovskii, J. Mikosch, M.J.J. Vrakking

    The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10 (2019) 265–269
  10. Study of plasma formation in solid dielectrics with the help of low-order harmonic emission

    A. Mermillod-Blondin, P. Jürgens, B. Liewehr, B. Kruse, C. Peltz, T. Witting, A. Husakou, M. Y. Ivanov, T. Fennel, M. J. J. Vrakking

    SPIE Proceedings 109050O/1-6 (2019)

Other Publications

my scholar profile: here

my ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2512-1840