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From 14 to 18 September 2026, the Laboratory for Lightwave Metrology was represented at the 24th Czech–Polish–Slovak Optical Conference in Pec pod Sněžkou, Czech Republic. Ioachim Pupeza was invited to give the plenary lecture Electric-field-resolved infrared spectroscopy for biology and medicine. He presented how recent advances in sensitivity, dynamic range, and bandwidth are pushing field-resolved…
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Science, Strategy and some fresh air The Lightwavelab team is growing and the third team retreat brought together our members from RPTU Kaiserslautern, Leibniz-IPHT Jena, and Fraunhofer ITWM, alongside guests from ELI-NP and the University Politehnica of Bucharest. We were also delighted to welcome the CEO of IRscope, one of our industry allies. In other…
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Pierre Koleják and Tim Schönwald joined this year’s Spin+X Retreat, the annual meeting of CRC/TRR 173, held in Bad Dürkheim from 26–28 August 2026. Pierre gave a plenary talk on Field-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy: Accessing Light–Matter Interactions, providing the Spin+X community with an overview of the research activities of the Laboratory for Lightwave Metrology. He highlighted…
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We are delighted to welcome Tobias Held to the team. He received his doctoral degree in 2026 from the Department of Physics at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau. In his doctoral research, he investigated nonequilibrium processes in metals induced by ultrafast laser excitation using numerical simulations. Through his research, Tobias developed expertise in scientific programming, numerical methods…
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Photo of enhancement cavity team with Erasmus students. From left: Prof. Dr. Ioachim Pupeza, Andrei Iancu, Dipl.-Phys. Frederik Pütz, Denisa Glodianu, Dr. Simon Michel, Alexandra Cana, Dr. Martin Micica
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From 27 to 31 July 2026, the Laboratory for Lightwave Metrology contributed to New Frontiers in Ultrafast Quantum Optics, an international summer school organized at the Lake Como School of Advanced Studies and held at Fondazione Alessandro Volta in Como. Prof. Ioachim Pupeza was one of the school’s invited lecturers and contributed to its teaching…
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We are delighted to announce that our team member Dr. Felix Paries has received the Dissertation Award of the Freundeskreis der RPTU in Kaiserslautern e.V. for his doctoral dissertation. The Freundeskreis association honors annually one distinguished doctoral dissertation from each department of the RPTU in recognition of outstanding academic achievement. Its membership comprises around 1,500…
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We are excited to welcome Simon Michel to Lightwavelab! Simon received his doctoral degree in 2024 from the Physics department at Hamburg University in the group of Prof. Michael Potthoff. He studied the adiabatic dynamics of localized magnets deposited on insulating lattice models. The development of an effective adiabatic theory enabled simulation of the long-time…
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From Molecular Vibrations to Live Gas Sensing: Our Group at the RPTU University Information Day At this year’s University Information Day at RPTU, our group presented current research topics and hands-on experiments to interested high-school students and teachers. Our booth gave visitors insights into our work on modern laser-based spectroscopy, including a preview to our…
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We warmly welcome Ronja Rönnberg as a Bachelor student at the RPTU Ronja enjoys working at the intersection between different fields of science, which is why they chose to study biophysics. They are very interested in the effects of external factors like chemical substances or physical changes on biological cells or organisms, which is why…
