Year: 2026

The Chair of Laser Physics mourns the loss of Maria Würth, who tragically lost her life in a hiking accident in September 2025. After completing her bachelor’s degree in physics at TU Berlin, she transferred to FAU for her master’s program. She had been a member of our Chair as a master’s student si...

In a recent study published in Phys. Rev. Applied, researchers from FAU, the University of Alabama, and LMU report an enhanced deep learning pipeline that substantially improves spatio-temporal multi-hit reconstruction in Delay-Line Detectors. By integrating cross-channel peak detection and novel, s...

In a recent study published in ACS Nano, FAU, LMU, and Technion researchers show that carefully tailored two-color laser fields can generate ultrafast bulk photogalvanic photocurrents that act as a sensitive probe of broken symmetries in 2D materials. They demonstrate in graphene that specific polar...

On October 23, 2025, Professor Peter Hommelhoff was awarded the Otto Hahn Prize by the City of Frankfurt am Main, the German Physical Society (DPG), and the German Chemical Society (GDCh) at Frankfurt's Paulskirche. Full details of this event and the prestigiously attended symposium held the followi...

The entire 1st Mathieu stability region was measured experimentally and simulated numerically for the first time in auto-ponderomotive structures. Similar to radio-frequency-driven Paul mass filters, electrons can be guided using planar electrode layouts, opening up new possibilities for the realiza...

Leon Brückner defended his PhD dissertation successfully  -- congratulations!