1. AMO Physics from United EUROPE
Wittenberg summer school
Attosecond Science in Garching

2. Wittenberg summer school
International Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Summer school Few body dynamics in atomic and molecular systems at LEUCOREA in Wittenberg, Germany

3. Wittenberg summer school
Scientific program:
Th. Baumert: Coherent Control - Kassel University
U. Becker: Single-photon interaction with atoms and molecules - Max Planck - Berlin
J.S. Briggs: Symmetries and electron correlation - Freiburg University
R. Doner: Charged particle induced few-body processes - Frankfurt University
E. Gross: Density Functional Theory - Berlin
H.P. Helm: Fragmentation of small molecules - Freiburg University

4. Literature Femtosecond Laser Pulses:
Linear Properties, Manipulation, Generation and Measurement
Matthias Wollenhaupt, Andreas Assion and Thomas Baumert
(available from our homepage)
Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena
Jean-Claude Diels and Wolfgang Rudolph
Academic Press 1996 (second edition soon available)
Femtosecond Laser Pulses (second edition)
Claude Rulliere
Springer 2005
Frequency-Resolved Optical Gating
Rick Trebino
Kluwer 2002

5. Additional imposed chirp
Pulse shaper
LCD
AOM
AOPDF
Micro Mirror
Modulation
Phase, amplitude and polarization
Phase and
amplitude
Phase, amplitude and (polariza.?)
Phase only
Pixels
128 (650)
2000
450
240 x 200
Transmis.
70 %
30 %
95 %
Waveform update Rate
5 Hz
100 kHz
k Hz
Additional imposed chirp
Negligible
(reflective optics)
fs2
12500 fs2
No chirp
Main
Advantage
Universal
Holds mask
highest pixel number
Easy handling
spatio-temporal shaping

6. Wittenberg summer school
Scientific program:
Th. Baumert: Coherent Control - Kassel University
U. Becker: Single-photon interaction with atoms and molecules - Max Planck - Berlin
J.S. Briggs: Symmetries and electron correlation - Freiburg University
R. Dorner: Charged particle induced few-body processes - Frankfurt University
E. Gross: Density Functional Theory - Berlin
H.P. Helm: Fragmentation of small molecules - Freiburg University

7. TD-ELF Examples
Ethyne (acetylene) in a strong laser field

8. TD-ELF Examples
Scattering of an energetic proton from ethene (ethylene)

9. INFORMATION ACCESSIBLE THROUGH TDELF
How long does it take to break a bond in
a laser field?
Which bond breaks first, which second, etc, in a collision process?
Are there intermediary (short-lived) bonds formed during a collision, which are not present any more in the collision products ?

10. Lecture Notes in Physics 706
(Springer, August 2006)

11. Wittenberg summer school
Scientific program:
Th. Baumert: Coherent Control - Kassel University
U. Becker: Single-photon interaction with atoms and molecules - Max Planck - Berlin
J.S. Briggs: Symmetries and electron correlation - Freiburg University
R. Doner: Charged particle induced few-body processes - Frankfurt University
E. Gross: Density Functional Theory - Berlin
H.P. Helm: Fragmentation of small molecules - Freiburg University

12. Velocity Imaging Technique

13. Velocity Imaging Technique

14. Wittenberg summer school
Scientific program:
Th. Moeller: Cluster fragmentation - Thechnical University Berlin
R. Moshammer: Atoms and molecules in strong laser fields (experimet) - Max Planck -Heidelberg
J.-M. Rost: Semiclassical theory of electronic processes - Max Planck - Dresden
K. Taylor: Time - dependent ab-initio calculations - Dublin University
P. Corkum: Attosecond atomic and molecular imaging - NRC - Canada
M. Ivanov: Theory of Molecules in Strong laser FIelds - NRC - Canada

15. Attosecond Science in Garching
IR-Pump - XUV-probe experiments
Harmonic Generation on Solids - Using High Power Lasers
FEL- Using High Power Lasers

16. Attosecond Science in Garching
IR-Pump - XUV-probe experiments
Single attosecond pulses from 3 fs IR laser
Extending the cut-off energy nm LASER

17. Attosecond Science in Garching
IR-Pump - XUV-probe experiments
Single attosecond pulses from 3 fs IR laser
Velocity Imaging Technique - Marc Vrakking

18. Attosecond Science in Garching
IR-Pump - XUV-probe experiments
Extending the cut-off energy nm LASER
45 degree multilayer mirrors
toroidal focusing mirrors
2100 nm pump beam manipulation