Projects

• Simultaneous spatial and temporal control (Aeschlimann, Brixner, Pfeiffer)
• Femtosecond dynamics and control of hybrid plasmonic systems (Bauer)
• Antenna enhanced coherent control of currents in nanostructures (Betz)
• Optimal control of energy transfer in silver-cluster nanostructures (Bonacic-Koutecky)
• Femtosecond quantum optics with hybrid nanostructures (Bratschitsch)
• Propagation and coherent control of excitations in optical nano-circuits (Brixner, Hecht)
• Hydrodynamic modeling of the optical response of metallic nanostructures (Busch)
• Transfer of angular momentum by circularly polarized near fields (Elmers, Kreiter)
• Optimization, pulse shaping and optical control in nanostructures (Förstner)
• Coherent control in plasmonic hybrid structures, metamaterials, and nanoantennas (Giessen)
• Adaptive control of tip-enhanced near-field signals in carbon nanotubes (Hartschuh)
• Attosecond probing of localized surface plasmon fields (Kleineberg)
• Short-Wavelength Photon and Electron Emission in Free and Deposited Nanoparticles by Controlled Ultrafast Laserinduced Nanolocalized Fields (Eckart Rühl, Jürgen Plenge, Matthias F. Kling, Thomas Fennel)
• Physics and applications of a novel nanometer-sized femtosecond electron source (Lienau, Ropers)
• Exciton-plasmon interaction in metal-semiconductor hybrid nanostructures (Lienau, Runge)
• Ultrafast nonlinear response in hybrid materials (Linden)
• Optical mapping of the elasto-mechanical response in nanostructures (Lippitz, Sönnichsen, Vogelgesang)
• Spatially-inhomogeneous optical nonlinearities in metal nanostructures (Meier)
• Tip-enhanced ultrafast spectroscopy and microscopy of organic solar cells (Meixner, Zhang)
• Plasmon coupling, propagation, and interference using femtosecond PEEM (Meyer zu Heringdorf)
• Femtosecond plasmonic transport in metal nanostructures investigated by SNOM and PEEM (Oesterschulze)
• Nonlinear optics in metallic nanowaveguides in Lithium Niobate (Pertsch, Rockstuhl)
• Nanolocalization of time-reversed optical fields (Pfeiffer)
• Nonlinear plasmon-plasmon interactions - ultrafast plasmonic switchers (Reinhardt)
• Theory of spatio-temporally resolved optical dynamics in hybrid-nanostructures (Richter, Schmidt)
• Coherent plasmonic control via near-field coupling (Zentgraf)