Topics ULTRAFAST PHENOMENA

APPLICATIONS

Ultrafast technology for near-field and nonlinear microscopy, coherent Raman microscopy, real-time/real-space electron microscopy, medical applications, high speed communication, micromachining, 3D nanofabrication and more.

BIOLOGY

Photosynthesis, vision, heme proteins, photoactive proteins, photoisomerization in chromoproteins, wavepacket dynamics, femtobiology, structural dynamics with X-rays and electrons, medical applications.

CHEMISTRY

Vibrational and conformational dynamics, energy transfer, femtochemistry, proton and electron transfer, solvation dynamics, wave packet dynamics and coherent control of reactions, ultrafast chiral phenomena, ultrafast imaging, structural dynamics with X-rays and electrons.

MATERIALS SCIENCE

Highly correlated systems, coherent phonons in solids, carrier dynamics in nanoparticles, carbon-based materials, two-dimensional materials, structural dynamics with X-rays and electrons.

PHYSICS

Ultrafast nonlinear optical processes, kinetics of non-equilibrium processes, quantum confinement, coherent transients, nonlinear pulse propagation, ultrafast nano-optics, novel ultrafast spectroscopic techniques, high intensity physics, attosecond dynamics, plasmonics, terahertz radiation.

SOURCES AND TECHNIQUES

New sources, new wavelength regimes, frequency conversion techniques, amplifiers, attosecond pulse generation, free electron lasers, pulse shaping, pulse diagnostics, electro-optical sampling and detectors, measurement techniques and frequency combs.