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. 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

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. 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
  2. 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
  3. Direct measurement of intense sub-4-fs pulses in a gas target by 3rd-harmonic dispersion-scan

    H. Crespo, M. Canhota, T. Witting, J. Tisch

     Ultrafast Phenomena XXI 205 EJP Web of Conferences (2019) 01026/1-3
  4. Extreme-ultraviolet refractive optics

    L. Drescher, O. Kornilov, T. Witting, G. Reitsma, N. Monserud, A. Rouzée, J. Mikosch, M. J. J. Vrakking, B. Schütte

     Nature 564 (2018) 91–94
  5. Continuous every-single-shot carrier-envelope phase measurement and control at 100 kHz

    D. Hoff, F. J. Furch, T. Witting, K. Rühle, D. Adolph, A. M. Sayler, M. J. J. Vrakking, G. G. Paulus, C. P. Schulz

     Optics Letters 43 (2018) 3850-3853
  6. Chirp-control of resonant high-order harmonic generation in indium ablation plumes driven by intense few-cycle laser pulses

    Z. Abdelrahman, M. A. Khokhlova, D. J. Walke, T. Witting, A. Zair, V. V. Strelkov, J. P. Marangos, J. W. G. Tisch

     Optics Express 26 (2018) 15745-15758
  7. Enhanced attosecond pulse generation in the vacuum ultraviolet using a two-colour driving field for high harmonic generation

    P. Matía-Hernando, T. Witting, D. J. Walke, J. P. Marangos, J. W. G. Tisch

     Journal of modern optics 65 (2018) 737-744
  8. Sub-4 fs laser pulses at high average power and high repetition rate from an all-solid-state setup

    C.-H. Lu, T. Witting, A. Husakou, M. J.J. Vrakking, A. H. Kung, F. J. Furch

     Optics Express 26 (2018) 8941-8956
  9. Spatio-temporal characterisation of a 100kHz 24W sub-3-cycle NOPCPA laser system

    T. Witting, F. J. Furch, M. J. J. Vrakking

     Journal of Optics 20 (2018) 044003/1-8
  10. Interferometric time-domain ptychography for ultrafast pulse characterization

    J. Hyyti, E. Escoto, G. Steinmeyer, T. Witting

     Optics Letters 42 (2017) 2185-2188

Other Publications

my scholar profile: here

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