MBI Staff Member – Personal info
Dr. Tobias Witting
tobias.witting(at)mbi-berlin.de
+49 30 6392 1228
A2: Ultrafast XUV-Physics
Building A, 3.04

Position
Senior Scientist, MBI division A, department A2
Member of projects:
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
MBI Publications
- 27 W 2.1 µm OPCPA system for coherent soft X-ray generation operating at 10 kHz Optics Express 28 (2020) 8724/1-10
- Phase cycling of extreme ultraviolet pulse sequences generated in rare gases New Journal of Physics 22 (2020) 092001/1-9
- In situ temporal measurement of ultrashort laser pulses at full power during high-intensity laser–matter interactions Optica 7 (2020) 995-1002
- Generation and characterisation of few-pulse attosecond pulse trains at 100 kHz repetition rate Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 53 (2020) 194003 /1-7
- Retrieval of attosecond pulse ensembles from streaking experiments using mixed state time-domain ptychography Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 53 (2020) 194001/1-8
- Photoinscription of optical microstructures in fused silica with few-cycle pulses SPIE Proceedings Series 11268 (2020) 11268ON/1-6
- High-repetition rate optical parametric chirped pulse amplification system for attosecond science experiments SPIE Proceedings 11034 (2019) 110340I/1-7
- Single-step fabrication of surface waveguides in fused silica with few-cycle laser pulses Optics Letters 44 (2019) 4267-4270
- State-resolved probing of attosecond timescale molecular dipoles The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 10 (2019) 265–269
- Study of plasma formation in solid dielectrics with the help of low-order harmonic emission SPIE Proceedings 109050O/1-6 (2019)