Rupert Huber

Department of Physics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

Date

30 November 2016

Host

Christina Benea Chelmus

Title

Faster than a Cycle of Light

Abstract

Latest progress in ultrafast optics allows us to accelerate electrons in solids directly by the carrier wave of infrared light. A fascinating quantum world unfolds on the sub-optical-cycle scale, including Bloch oscillations, quasiparticle collisions, and high-harmonic generation. By combining this approach with ultramicroscopy we take the first femtosecond snapshot image of a molecular orbital and the first femtosecond single-molecule movie.

Enlarged view: Huber
Rupert Huber (left) with Cristina Benea Chelmus
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