Marco Dassie has successfully defended his thesis titled “Resolving attosecond dynamics via photoconductive sampling”.
In his dissertation, Marco advanced the generation and characterization of attosecond pulses with a spectrum spanning from the vacuum-ultraviolet to the visible. He significantly improved the accessibility of attosecond experiments by generating attosecond pulses with a relatively simple setup, using only a single gas-filled capillary. By resolving the electric field oscillations of these pulses with a period as short as 400 attoseconds, Marco was able to observe ultrafast light-matter interactions at the surface of silicon. Furthermore, he explored new approaches to improve the field sampling of ultrashort pulses.
“It will be exciting to see how these tools will advance the way we investigate molecules and solids interacting with light,” Marco says.
Congratulations!
Picture: Nina Beier
