Abstract

The 2023 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L’Huillier for ‘for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter’. The seminar will take us onto a journey into the attoworld. I will highlight the contributions of these pioneers, and give a personal perspective on the journey from the babysteps of generating attosecond flashes of light to applications in photochemistry, ultrafast electronics, and early disease detection. The talk will point out why the best is yet to come with the new light source LCLS-II and related opportunities in next generation energy applications.

Illustration : Attosecond probing of electron localization in molecules.
Credit : Christian Hackenberger, MPQ

Bio

Matthias Kling received a Diploma in Physics in 1998 and a PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2002 from Goettingen University in Germany. After postdocs at UC Berkeley and AMOLF in Amsterdam, in 2007 he joined the Laboratory of Attosecond Physics of Ferenc Krausz as a research group leader on Attosecond Imaging at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany. He was appointed professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, Germany, in 2013. Kling joined Stanford University in 2021, leading the Research Group on Ultrafast Electronics and Nanophotonics that is part of the PULSE Institute, and serving as the Director of the Science and R&D Division at LCLS at SLAC.

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