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

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

 

Twisting magnetization with light – Laser pulses enable faster creation of skyrmions in magnets

A team of scientists led by the Max Born Institute (MBI), Berlin, Germany, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA, has…

Photon-recoil imaging: a new route to study nonlinear x-ray physics

One key scientific driver for the development of intense x-ray free-electron lasers (XFELs) has been the prospect to transfer the concepts of…

Who stole the light? Self-induced ultrafast demagnetization limits the amount of light diffracted from magnetic samples at soft x-ray energies

Free electron X-ray lasers deliver intense ultrashort pulses of x-rays, which can be used to image nanometer-scale objects in a single shot. When the…

Self-imaging of a molecule by its own electrons: mapping the atomic motion during a molecular vibration

One of the long-standing goals of research on the light-induced dynamics of molecules is to observe time-dependent changes in the structure of…

Strong fields and ultrafast motions – how to generate and steer electrons in liquid water

Water molecules undergo ultrafast dithering motions at room temperature and generate extremely strong electric fields in their environment. New…

Hammer-on technique for atomic vibrations in a crystal

Vibrations of atoms in a crystal of the semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) are impulsively shifted to a higher frequency by an optically excited…

Highest peak power and excellent stability - record parameters for amplified ultrashort pulses at 2-µm wavelength and kilohertz repetition rates

Power-scalable ultrafast laser sources in the midwave-infrared (MWIR) are a key element for basic research and applications in material processing and…

High-order synthetic dimensions in waveguide photonic lattices: parallelizing high-dimensional random walks

In physics, a very intuitive way of describing the evolution of a system proceeds via the specification of functions of the spatiotemporal…

Light from inside the tunnel

Steering and monitoring the light-driven motion of electrons inside matter on the time-scale of a single optical cycle is a key challenge in ultrafast…

New compressor delivers above-terawatt 1.5-cycle pulses at kilohertz repetition rate

Researchers at the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) have reached a new milestone in few-cycle pulse…

Outstanding basic research on light-matter interaction - Max Born Institute successfully evaluated

In its statement, the Leibniz Association's Senate acknowledges MBI's outstanding research achievements and strong international position. The Senate…

Light Moves Spins Around

Combining experiment and theory, researchers from the Max Born Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short Pulse Spectroscopy (MBI) and the Max Planck…

Dr. Arnaud Rouzée is the recipient of the 2020 "JCP Editor's Choice Award"

Dr. Arnaud Rouzée has been awarded the 2020 “JCP Editor’s Choice Award”  that rewards the most outstanding paper published in the Journal of Chemical…