Strong Field Laser Physics

T. Brabec has been working for nearly 20 years in the areas of nonlinear optics, ultrafast spectroscopy, attosecond science, intense laser field physics, and quantum dynamics. He has (co-)authored about 100 publications.

• High-Intensity Laser Sources.- High-Energy Pulse Compression Techniques.- Ultrafast Laser Amplifier Systems.- Optical Parametric Amplification Techniques.- Carrier-Envelope Phase of Ultrashort Pulses.- Free-Electron Lasers – High-Intensity X-Ray Sources.- Laser–Matter Interaction – Nonrelativistic.- Numerical Methods in Strong Field Physics.- Principles of Single Atom Physics: High-Order Harmonic Generation, Above-Threshold Ionization and Non-Sequential Ionization.- Ionization of Small Molecules by Strong Laser Fields.- Probing Molecular Structure and Dynamics by Laser-Driven Electron Recollisions.- Intense Laser Interaction with Noble Gas Clusters.- Laser-Induced Optical Breakdown in Solids.- Laser-Driven X-ray Sources.- Macroscopic Effects in High-Order Harmonic Generation.- Attosecond Pulses: Generation, Detection, and Applications.- High-Order Harmonics from Plasma Surfaces.- Table-Top X-Ray Lasers in Short Laser Pulse and Discharge Driven Plasmas.- Time-Resolved X-Ray Science: Emergence of X-Ray Beams Using Laser Systems.- Atomic Multi-photon Interaction with Intense Short-Wavelength Fields.- Laser–Matter Interaction – Relativistic.- Relativistic Laser-Plasma Physics.- High-Density Plasma Laser Interaction.- Relativistic Laser–Atom Physics.- Tests of QED with Intense Lasers.- Nuclear Physics with Intense Lasers.- Intense Field Physics with Heavy Ions.- Ion-Generated, Attosecond Pulses: Interaction with Atoms and Comparison to Femtosecond Laser Fields.