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. Interferometric time-domain ptychography for ultrafast pulse characterization

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

     Optics Letters 42 (2017) 2185-2188
  2. Role of intrapulse coherence in carrier-envelope phase stabilization

    N. Raabe, T. Feng, T. Witting, A. Demircan, C. Brée, G. Steinmeyer

     Physical Review Letters 119 (2017) 123901/1-5
  3. Attosecond physics at the nanoscale

    M. F. Ciappina, J. A. Pérez-Hernández, A. S. Landsman, W. A. Okell, S. Zherebtsov, B. Förg, J. Schötz, L. Seiffert, T. Fennel, T. Shaaran, T. Zimmermann, A. Chacón, R. Guichard, A. Zaïr, J. W. G. Tisch, J. P. Marangos, T. Witting, A. Braun, S. A. Maier, L. Roso, M. Krüger, P. Hommelhoff, M. F. Kling, F. Krausz, M. Lewenstein

     Reports on Progress in Physics 80 (2017) 054401/1-50
  4. CEP-stable few-cycle pulses with more than 190  μJ of energy at 100  kHz from a noncollinear optical parametric amplifier

    F. J. Furch, T. Witting, A. Giree, C. Luan, F. Schell, G. Arisholm, C. P. Schulz, M. J. J. Vrakking

    Optics Letters 42 (2017) 2495-2498
  5. Strong-field ionization of clusters using two-cycle pulses at 1.8 μm

    B. Schütte, P. Ye, S. Patchkovskii, D. R. Austin, C. Brahms, C. Strüber, T. Witting, M. Yu. Ivanov, J. W. G. Tisch, J. P. Marangos

     Scientific Reports 6 (2016) 39664
  6. Optimization of Quantum Trajectories Driven by Strong-Field Waveforms

    S. Haessler, T. Balčiunas, G. Fan, G. Andriukaitis, A. Pugžlys, A. Baltuška, T. Witting, R. Squibb, A. Zaïr, J.  W. G. Tisch, J.  P. Marangos, L.  E. Chipperfield

     Physical Review X 4 (2014) 021028/1-9

Other Publications

my scholar profile: here

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