Max-Born-Institute, Berlin

Access to the MBI short-pulse and ultra-high-intensity laser and research facilities, and to the MBI BESSY Beamline.

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Contact:	Frank Noack Email
	Daniela Stozno Email

The MBI conducts basic research in the field of nonlinear optics and ultrafast dynamics of the interaction of light with matter and pursues applications that emerge from this research. It develops and uses ultrafast and ultra-intense lasers and laser-driven short-pulse light sources in a broad spectral range in combination with methods of nonlinear spectroscopy.
MBI offers access opportunities for research in the general area of optically induced nonlinear response and/or the real-time observation and control of fast and ultra-fast elementary dynamics and high-field laser physics. Such studies provide direct access to microscopic interactions and structure underlying the physical properties of atoms, molecules, clusters, plasma, solids, and surfaces.
The scientific infrastructure generally consists of short pulse and high-field laser systems with their experimental periphery; their development and upgrade is also subject of active MBI research and access opportunities. The available laser systems may be classified as
i) short pulse sources, covering the spectral range from FIR to X-rays with pulse durations down to a few femtoseconds
ii) ultra-high intensity lasers
iii) special laser systems for applications
The MBI application laboratories concentrate most of these laser systems in dedicated building space, together with the necessary infrastructure for in-house and external access experiments.

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Activities:

1. Physics and generation of extremely short pulses
2. Broadband tunability and new materials
3. Short-pulse lasers of high average power
4. High intensity lasers
5. Laser plasma dynamics
6. Ionisation dynamics in intense laser fields
7. Dynamics of free clusters and large molecules
8. Molecular vibrational and reaction dynamics in the condensed phase
9. Dynamics and structure at surfaces
10. Ultrafast nanodynamics in solids
11. Opto-electronics
12. Generation and amplification of ultra-short non-coherent x-ray pulses

Research opportunities within the Laserlab access activity:

• Ultra-short (35fs), 10Hz ultra -high peak-power Ti:Sa laser (multi ten-TW, Intensity > 10^19 W/cm2)
• 10J / 1ps Nd:Glass Laser (Intensity > 10^18 W/cm2 ) with ns parallel beams
• High average power, kHz/ multi-mJ Ti:Sa laser (<50fs) for applications
• Various fs-laser system for time resolved and control measurements in the gas phase and condensed matter covering the spectral range from 185nm to about 4µm (10µm)
• Compact diode-pumped fs /ps sources (Pav ~ 1W@300fs; >10W@10ps)
• Diode- and flashlamp-pumped burst lasers (Pav; burst > kW; 3ps)
• sub 100fs, some 100 nJ pulses down to 160nm @ 1kHz
• Generation and characterization of high energy sub-10-fs pulses at 800nm
• Phase stabilization of amplified ultra-short pulses
• Short-pulse, table-top X-ray laser @ 13-15 nm;
• High repetition rate incoherent fs X-ray sources / ps EUV sources
• Direct field-resolved detection and shaping of THz transients with > 1 MV/cm amplitudes
• Two-color mid-infrared sources tunable in the 3 to 20 μm range (pulse duration 100 fs)
• Tunable OPCPA fs sources (150 fs..1ps, 790...830nm, 395..415 nm; and 100fs, 1.58 μm)
MBI-BESSY Beamline: Facility for combined experiments with synchrotron radiation and short-pulse lasers