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

News & Highlights

Here you will find current news and highlights from the areas of research.

 

Honey, we shrunk the intense XUV laser

An international team of researchers has demonstrated a new concept for the generation of intense extreme-ultraviolet (XUV) radiation by high-harmonic…

A New Light on Quantum Science

A research team of the Institute of Physics of the Humboldt University of Berlin together with cooperation partners Max Born Instituts (Berlin) and…

Shaken, not stirred: Reshuffling Skyrmions Ultrafast

Smaller, faster, more energy-efficient: future requirements to computing and data storage are hard to fulfill and alternative concepts are…

When Functional Materials Become Squishy

Most people associate terahertz radiation from airport scanners. These radiations can, however, unleash a bag full of surprises when used to…

Topological protection versus degree of entanglement of two-photon light in photonic topological insulators

In a joint effort, researchers from the Humboldt-Universität (Berlin), the Max Born Institute (Berlin) and the University of Central Florida (USA),…

Terahertz waves from electrons oscillating in liquid water

Ionization of water molecules by light generates free electrons in liquid water. After generation, the so-called solvated electron is formed, a…

Dr. Michael Schneider receives the European XFEL Young Scientist Award

The European XFEL Young Scientist Award recognizes outstanding contributions of young researchers in the early stages of their career to research at…

White turns into (extreme-)ultraviolet

Researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have developed a new method to modify the spectral…

High-flux table-top source for femtosecond hard X-ray pulses

Femtosecond hard X-ray pulses are an important tool for unraveling structure changes of condensed matter on atomic length and time scales. A novel…

Extending solid-state electronic structure calculations to ultra long-range length scales

Density functional theory (DFT) has had a tremendous impact on solid-state physics and is, due to its computational efficiency, at the heart of modern…