Dr. Rüdiger Grunwald

Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy Department C - Nonlinear Processes in condensed matter, Division C2 - Solid state light sources
Project cluster 1-01 Ultrafast nonlinear optics and few cycle pulses
Project UP1 Few-cycle pulse generation and nonlinear optical processes in hollow
waveguides, photonic crystal fibers and microstructured materials


















































































































































































































































































































































































































Curriculum vitae

Born:

  • July 3, 1955 in Halle/Saale, Germany

Education:

  • 1977-1982 study of physics at Humboldt-University Berlin (HUB)
  • 1982 Diploma thesis (time-resoved spectroscopy of N2 laser plasma)
  • 1982 Heinrich Gustav Magnus Award  
  • 1986 PhD thesis at HUB (UV multiple photon processes in aromatic and metal-organic molecules; radical spectroscopy)

Professional career:

  • 1982-1991 Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy of the Academy of Sciences (Berlin),  Leader of a Junior Research Group
  • 1991-1998 Project Manager at the Society for the Promotion of Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Quantum Electronics and Spectroscopy Inc. Berlin (GOS)
  • 1993-1997 Light & Art Company (M.D.) (Berlin), Collaboration with Lumenyte  Corp. (Orange County, USA)
  • since 1998 with Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy Berlin (MBI)

Memberships

  • 1981 German Physical Society (DPG)
  • 1990 Society for the Promotion of Applied Optics, Optoelectronics, Quantum Electronics and Spectroscopy, Berlin (GOS)
  • 1995 Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • 1997 European Optical Society (EOS)
  • 2008 International Societyfor Optical Engineering (SPIE)

Editorial Advisory Boards

  • 2009 The Open Optics Journal (Bentham Open)

Main topics:

  • 1982-1986 Laser development (N2, Excimer, CO2), spectroscopic diagnostics of free radicals (C2, CN) and free atoms (molybdenum), multiple photon dissociation of organic and metal-organic molecules (naphthalene, quinoline, metal carbonyls), LCVD (carbon, molybdenum)
  • 1987-1989 TEA CO2 laser development (design of unstable resonators, fabrication of graded reflectance mirrors, simulation of temporal evolution, chirp reduction)
  • 1990-1991 Interferometry of laser diodes (current-dependent astigmatism) with radial-shear interferometer
  • 1992-1995 High power fiber bundle lasers, Nd:glass laser with graded reflectance mirrors and Talbot resonators, fabrication of micro-mirrors
  • 1994-1995 Measuring techniques for thin-film components (interferometry, micro-profilometry)
  • 1995-1998 Thin film microlens arrays for image sensing, processing and micro-lasers; fiber sensors; micro-mirror arrays; optical image pre-processing (for Siemens)
  • 1998-1999 Resonance-enhanced SHG of laser diode MOPA with extra-cavity high-Q ring-resonator
  • 1999-2002 Hybrid micro-optical components for high-power diode laser collimation (micro-gradient AR layers, SAC microlenses), inspection of  diode laser facets with high-resolution micro-reflectometry, angular dependent micro-reflectometry, pseudo near field and spatially resolved polarization of diode laser bars
  • 2001-2005 Nonlinear frequency conversion in nanocrystalline ZnO films for the autocorrelation of extremely short pulses
  • 2001-2008 Beam shaping and diagnostics of fs-lasers with thin-film micro-optics (generation of ultrafast nondiffractive beam arrays, Bessel X-waves, self-reconstruction of X-waves in space and time, low-dispersion hybrid refractive-reflective beam shapers) 
  • 2005-2009 Diagnostics of few-cycle wavepackets (spatially resolved single-shot autocorrelation with matrix processors, collinear wavefront autocorrelation with spatio-temporal and angular resolution, wavefront sensing of highly divergent beams with axicon-based Shack-Hartmann sensors, reflective setups for autocorrelation and wavefront sensing)
  • 2003-2006 VUV beam array shaping and multichannel materials processing with ultraflat nanolayer microaxicons and cylinder microlenses (157 nm)
  • 2003-2009 Single-maximum  nondiffracting  beams ("needle beams") by self-apodizing ultrathin and composite structures
  • 2005-2009 Generation of slow-axial-decay single-maximum femtosecond localized wavepackets by self-apodizing truncation; spectral transfer analysis and spectral mapping of few-cycle pulses, improved SHG efficiency with optimized ZnO nanostructures, shaping of femtosecond "needle beams" of unprecedented Rayleigh lengths  (i.e. wavepackets with paths well approximating rays), generation of nondiffracting and self-reconstructing images by combining microaxicon arrays and needle beams
  • 2006-2009 Laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) in dielectric nonlinear nanocrystalline layers and bulk materials
  • 2006-2009 Spectral and spatial beam analyis with higher-order statistical moments, spectral information encoding
  • 2006-2009 Temporal beam shaping with Talbot effect, Montgomery effect and microoptical retroreflector arrays
  • 2007-2009 Shaping of ultrashort pulses and nondiffracting beams with LCoS spatial light modulators, phase shift autocorrelation with pulsed Bessel beams
  • 2007-2009 Quantum interference experiments with modified Young's double slit arrangements and single photon detection using EMCCD technique
  • 2007-2009 Nonlinear spectroscopy at ZnO nanorods and nanolayers under ultrashort-pulse excitation
  • since 2009 Ultrashort-pulsed orbital momentum beams

Project leadership:

  • Laser-induced selective excitation of molecules: UV- and IR-multiphoton dissociation of organic and metal-organic molecules and LCVD of  carbon and metal layers (1982-1986)
  • Resonator optics for frequency stabilized TEA-CO2 lasers for LIDAR (1986-1990)
  • Radial shear interferometer for the measurement of laser diode astigmatism (sponsored by WF Berlin, 1990)
  • Development of methods for the characterization of apodizing thin-film components (GEWIPLAN, BMWi 1994)
  • Microlens arrays for the coupling of laserdiode arrays and fiber bundles (GEWIPLAN, BMWi 1995)
  • Investigations for optical pre-processing in automated mail-recognition systems (sponsored by Siemens, Erlangen, 1996)
  • Beam shaping of pulses UV- and IR-lasers with new thin-film components (GEWIPLAN, BMWi, 1995-1997)
  • Microlens arrays for technical viewing systems (BMBF, 1995-1997)
  • Structured sensor fibers (GEWIPLAN, BMWi, 1997-1998)
  • UV generation by direct conversion of the radiation from a laser diode MOPA in a resonance enhanced external resonator (BMBF, 1998-1999)
  • CHOCLAB II (Instruments and Standard Test Procedures for Laser beam and Optics Characterization), International Project, Eureka no. EU 2359
  • Microoptical thin-film components for the improvement of the collimation efficiency of diode laser arrays (BMBF 1999-2002)
  • Realization and characterization of nonlinear-optical active glass-crystal composites on the basis of semiconductor coated transparent glasses of optimized local structure (joint DFG-project with Otto-Schott-Institute FSU Jena, 2000-2005)
  • Spatio-temporal beam shaping of femtosecond lasers with microoptical arrays (BMBF / WTZ, German Canadian Collaboration Project with Laval University Quebec, Canada, 2001-2004)
  • Spatially resolved nonlinear autocorrelation of ultrashort laser pulses with microoptical matrixprocessors (DFG-project in collaboration with BIAS, Bremen, 2005-2009)
  • Generation of curved nondiffractive beams for 3D ultrashort-pulse laser microstructuring (BMBF / WTZ, German Canadian Collaboration Project with Laval University Quebec and INRS Montreal, Canada, 2006)
  • Ultrashort-pulse laser-induced nanostructuring of nonlinear materials (UP-LINN) (DFG-project in collaboration with Otto-Schott-Institute FSU Jena, 2009-2011)
  • Adaptive wavefront sensor of high dynamics for ultrashort-pulse lasers (ADWELL) (DFG transfer project, collaboration with metrolux GmbH, Göttingen. 2209-2012)

International collaboration:

  • COPL, Laval University Quebec, Canada, Prof. Michel Piché (German Canadian Collaboration Project since 2001, working visits at COPL in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006)
  • University Toronto, Canada, Prof. Peter Herman (working visits in 2002 and 2003)
  • Dublin City University, Rep. Ireland, Dr. Enda Mc Glynn and Dr. Jean-Paul Mosnier
  • University College Dublin, Rep. Ireland, Prof. John Sheridan
  • Ajou University, South Korea, Prof. Fabian Rotermund
  • West Chester University, Department of Chemistry, USA, Prof. Kurt Kolasinski
  • University Barcelona, Department of Electronics, Spain, Prof. Frank Güell
  • University WSP, Inst. Phys., Czȩstochowa, Poland, Prof. Ivan V. Kityk

Publications

Peer reviewed journals:

2009-2010

  • S. K. Das, M. Biswas, D. Byrne, M. Bock, E. McGlynn, M. Breusing, and R. Grunwald, Multiphoton-absorption induced UV luminescence
    of ZnO nanorods irradiated by few-nJ broadband fs-pulses of a Ti:sapphire laser oscillator, J. Appl. Phys. (2010), submitted.
    NEW! 
  • S. K. Das, K. Dasari, A. Rosenfeld and R. Grunwald, Extended-area nanostructuring of TiO2 with femtosecond laser pulses at 400 nm using a line focus, Nanotechnology (in press). NEW!
  • M. Bock, S. K. Das, and R. Grunwald, Programmable ultrashort-pulsed flying images, Opt. Express 17, 7465-7478 (2009). pdf
  • S. K. Das, D. Dufft, A. Rosenfeld, J. Bonse, M. Bock, and R. Grunwald, Femtosecond-laser-induced high spatial frequency quasi-periodic nanostructures on TiO2 surfaces, J. Appl. Phys. 105, 084912 (2009). 
  • T. Hansel, R. Grunwald, K. Reimann, J. Bonitz, C. Kaufmann, and U. Griebner, Deformation measurements of high speed MEMS with combined two-wavelength single-pulse digital holography and single phase reconstruction using sub-picosecond pulses, IEEE J. Select. Topics QE 15, 1351-1358 (2009).
  • D. Dufft, A. Rosenfeld, S. K. Das, R. Grunwald, and J. Bonse, Femtosecond laser-induced periodic surface structures revisited: a comparative study on ZnO, J. Appl. Phys. 105, 034908 (2009).
  • T. Hansel, G. Steinmeyer, R. Grunwald, C. Falldorf, J. Bonitz, C. Kaufmann, V. Kebbel, and U. Griebner, Synthesized femtosecond laser pulse source for two-wavelength contouring with simultaneously recorded digital holograms, Opt. Express 17, 2686-2695 (2009). pdf

2007-2008

  • S. K. Das, M. Bock, C. O'Neill, R. Grunwald, K. M. Lee, H. W. Lee, S. Lee, and F. Rotermund, Efficient second harmonic generation in ZnO nanorod arrays with broadband ultrashort pulses,  Appl. Phys. Lett. (2008), 93,181112. pdf 
  • M. Bock , S. K. Das, R. Grunwald,  S. Osten , P. Staudt and G. Stibenz,  Spectral and temporal response of liquid-crystal-on-silicon spatial light modulators, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 151105 (2008).
  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, V. Kebbel, S. Huferath, U. Neumann, G. Steinmeyer, G. Stibenz, J.-L. Néron, and M. Piché, Ultrashort-pulsed truncated polychromatic Bessel-Gauss beams, Opt. Expr. 16, 1077-1089 (2008).  pdf

  • T. Hansel, J. Müller, C. Falldorf, C.v.Kopylow, W. Jüptner, R. Grunwald, G. Steinmeyer, and U. Griebner, Ultrashort-pulse dual-wavelength source for digital holographic two-wavelength contouring, Appl. Phys. B 89, 513-516 (2007); invited paper. 

  • H. Knuppertz, J. Jahns, and R. Grunwald, Temporal impulse response of the Talbot interferometer, Opt. Commun. 277, 67-73 (2007).
  • R. Grunwald, S. Huferath, M. Bock, U. Neumann, and S. Langer, Angular tolerance of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensors with microaxicons, Opt. Lett. 32, 1533-1535 (2007).
  • A. Niemann, C. Schmoranzer, R. Grunwald, W. Seeber, Photocatalytic active layers with self-cleaning potential for NLO applications prepared by spray pyrolysis, Europ. J. Glass Sci. Technol. Pt. B: Physics and Chemistry of Glasses 49, 55-58 (2007). 
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, W. Seeber, H. Lange, J.-P. Mosnier, R. O'Haire, E. McGlynn, Growth-controlled and laser-induced nanostructures in thin nonlinear-optical ZnO layers, Europ. J. Glass Sci. Technol. Pt. B: Physics and Chemistry of Glasses 48, 134-137 (2007).

2005-2006

  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, A. Rosenfeld, J. Li, and P. R. Herman, Scalable multichannel micromachining with pseudo-nondiffracting  vacuum ultraviolet beam arrays generated by thin-film axicons, Optics Letters 31, 1666-1669 (2006).
  • U. Griebner, J. Liu, S. Rivier, A. Aznar, R. Grunwald, R. Solé, M. Aguiló, F. Díaz, and V. Petrov, Laser operation of epitaxially grown Yb:KLu(WO4)2 composites with monoclinic crystalline structure, IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 41, 408-414 (2005).
  • U. Neumann, R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, G. Steinmeyer, M. Schmidbauer, and W. Seeber, Second harmonic performance of a-axis oriented ZnO nanolayers on sapphire substrates, Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 171108 (2005); co-published in: Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, http://www.virtualjournals.org/vjs/notification.jsp.

2003-2004

  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, V. Kebbel, H.-J. Kühn, K. Mann, U. Leinhos, H. Mischke, and D. Wulff-Molder, VUV beam array generation by flat microoptical structures, Opt. Lett. 29, 977-979 (2004).
  • R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, and M. Piché, Ultrafast spatio-temporal processing with thin-film microoptics, Opt. Eng. 43, 2518-2524 (2004).
  • U. Neumann, R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, G. Steinmeyer, and W. Seeber,  Second harmonic efficiency of ZnO nanolayers, Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 170-172 (2004).
  • A. Aznar, R. Solé, M. Aguiló, F. Diaz, U. Griebner, R. Grunwald, V. Petrov, Growth and laser operation of epitaxial Yb:KY(WO4)2/KY(WO4)2 composites with monoclinic structure, Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 4313-4315 (2004).
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, K. Reimann, G. Steinmeyer, and V. Kebbel, Ultrashort-pulse wavefront autocorrelation, Opt. Lett. 28, 2399-2401 (2003).
  • R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, U. Griebner, U. Neumann, A. Kummrow, M. Rini, E. T. J. Nibbering, M. Piché, G. Rousseau, and M. Fortin, Generation and characterization of spatially and temporally localized few-cycle optical wavepackets, Phys. Rev. A 67, 0638320 (2003).

2000-2002

  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, E. T. J. Nibbering, A. Kummrow, M. Rini, T. Elsaesser, V. Kebbel, H.-J. Hartmann, and W. Jüptner, Spatially resolved small-angle non-collinear interferometric autocorrelation of ultrashort pulses with micro-axicon arrays, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18, 2923-2931 (2001).
  • U. Griebner, H. Schoennagel, J. Huschkle, and G. Erbert, Laser with guided pump and free-propagating resonator mode using diffusion-bonded rectangular channel waveguides, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77, 3505-3507 (2000).
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, F. Tschirschwitz, E. T. J. Nibbering, T. Elsaesser, V. Kebbel, H.-J. Hartmann, and W. Jüptner, Generation of femtosecond Bessel beams with micro-axicon arrays, Opt. Lett. 25, 981-983 (2000).

1989-1999

  • U. Griebner, R. Grunwald, and H. Schönnagel, Thermally bonded Yb:YAG planar waveguide laser, Opt. Commun. 164, 185-190 (1999).
  • R. Grunwald, H. Mischke, and W. Rehak, Microlens formation by thin-film deposition with mesh-shaped masks, Appl. Opt. 38, 4117-4124 (1999).
  • R. Grunwald, S. Woggon, U. Griebner, R. Ehlert, and W. Reinecke, Axial beam shaping with non-spherical microlenses, Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 37, 3701-3707 (1998).
  •  R. Grunwald, S. Woggon, R. Ehlert, and W. Reinecke, Thin-film microlens arrays with non-spherical elements, Pure Appl. Opt. 6, 663-671 (1997).
  • U. Griebner, R. Koch, H. Schönnagel, and R. Grunwald, Efficient laser operation with nearly diffraction-limited output from a diode-pumped heavily Nd-doped multimode fiber, Opt. Lett. 21, 266-268 (1996).
  •  R. Koch, U. Griebner, and R. Grunwald, High-Average-Power Flashlamp-Pumped Nd:Glass Fiber- Bundle Laser, Appl. Phys. B 58 403-407 (1994).
  •  R. Grunwald and U. Griebner, Segmented solid-state laser resonators with graded reflectance micro-mirror arrays, Pure Appl. Opt. 3 435-440 (1994).
  • R. Grunwald, H. Schönnagel, B. Voigt, J. Guhr, A. Mitreiter, I. Pinz, J. Bleck, Optimization of a coherent TE-CO2-laser with variable reflectivity outcouplers, Infrared Phys. 32, 109-127 (1991).
  • L. Holz, R. Koch, R. Grunwald, and H. Albrecht, Amplification and Saturation Energy of Transversely Excited CO2-Laser Gas Mixtures at 10.6 microns, Revue Roumaine de Physique 34, 719-723 (1989).

< 1989

  • J. Hertz and R. Grunwald, Über die Kleinsignalmessung nach Laden­burg/Levy, Ann. Phys. 43, 201-212 (1986). 
  • R. Grunwald and J. H. Hertz, Nachweis eines optischen Gewinns nach UV-Mehrphotonen-Dissoziation von Molybdän-Hexacarbonyl, Ann. Phys. 43, 499-504 (1986). 
  • R. Grunwald, J. Lademann, H.Hohmann, and A.N. Shibanov, Generation of electronically excited radicals during the collision-free IR-multiphoton dissociation of ethylene, Khimiceskaya Fizika 4, (Moscow) 46-49 (1985) (in Russian).
  • R. König,  S. Mory, A. Rosenfeld, J. Lademann, R. Grunwald, and G. Winkelmann, Laser absorption and Fluorescence Spectro­scopy of excited molecules in nanosecond time scale, J. Mol. Struct. 114, 101-104 (1984).
  • J. Lademann, R. König, Yu. Kudryavtsev, H. Albrecht, G. Fritsch, R. Grunwald, and G. Winkelmann, Ein einfacher Excimerlaser mit automatischer Vorionisation, Exp. Technik d. Phys. 32, 235-246 (1984).
  • G. Winkelmann, R. Grunwald, J. Lademann, and R. König, Photolyse von Naphthalen mittels Excimerlaser, Z. Chem. 23, 417-418 (1983).

Popular scientific:

  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, Programmable microoptics for ultrashort pulses, SPIE Newsroom (2010), submitted. NEW!
  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, Beamer für ultrakurze Laserpulse, Kurzmitteilung, Laser Magazin No. 2/2008, pp. 17-18, April 2008.
  • R. Grunwald, Mikrooptiken für extreme Laserparameter, Laser Technik Journal (Wiley-VCH), 2, no. 3, 51-55 (2005).
  • R. Grunwald and G. Steinmeyer, Ultrakurze Lichtblitze: Regenbögen in Raum und Zeit, Physik in unserer Zeit 35, 218-226 (2004).

Book monographs:

Book chapters:

         Localized waves
  • R. Grunwald, Microoptics, in: G. L. Trigg (Ed.), Digital Encyclopedia of Applied Physics, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Edition 2005, http://www.mrw.interscience.wiley.com/eap/articles/eap647/frame.html, Article online posting date: July 15, 2005.
  • R. Grunwald and V. Kebbel, Micro-optical beam shaping of supershort-pulse lasers, in: J. Jahns and K.-H.Brenner (Eds.) Microoptics - from technology to applications, (Springer Series in Optical Sciences, Springer Verlag, 2004), pp. 299-311.
  • R. Grunwald, Mikrooptische Komponenten für neue Technologien, in: R.-J. Ahlers (Ed.), Das Handbuch der Bildverarbeitung, expert-verlag Malmsheim, 2000, 2.1.4-2 - 2.1.4-19.
  • R. Grunwald, S. Woggon, and R. Ehlert, Fabrication of thin-film microlens arrays by mask-shaded vacuum deposition, in S. Martellucci, A. N. Chester (Eds.), Diffractive Optics and Optical Microsystems, (Plenum Press, New York / London 1997), pp.169-177.
  • H. Albrecht, H. Hohmann, and R. Grunwald, in: D. Bäuerle (Ed.), Laser Processing and Diagnostics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1984, 536.

Invited talks at conferences:

  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, Programmable microoptics for ultrashort pulses, SPIE Photonics Europe, Brussels, April 12-16 (2010), accepted; Proc. SPIE 7579, 7579-25submitted. NEW!

  • R. Grunwald and M. Bock, Spatial control and diagnostics of femtosecond pulses with programmable microoptics, SPIE Photonics West, January 23-28, San Francisco 2010; Proc. SPIE 7579-25 (2010), submitted.
  • R. Grunwald and M. Bock, Adaptive phase encoding and diagnostics of ultrashort pulses with liquid crystal displays, CLEO Pacific Rim, Shanghai, China, 2009.
  • J. Jahns, H. Knuppertz, R. Grunwald, and M. Bock, Microoptical processing and shaping of ultrashort pulses, International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON) 2008, June 22-26, Athens, Greece; Proc. ICTON.
  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, S. Huferath, S. K. Das, S. Osten, P. Staudt, and G. Stibenz, Programmable ultrashort-pulse localized waves, PIERS Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium, Cambridge, USA, 2-6 July, 2008, Workshop on Localized Waves, CD-ROM, Abstracts, 533-534. 
  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, S. Huferath-von Luepke, Smart spatio-temporal beam shaping with thin-film microoptics, SPIE Optics+Photonics Symposium, Laser Beam Shaping IX Conference, San Diego, USA, 2008, (Keynote Lecture); in: Proc. SPIE 7062, 706202-706202-10 (2008).

  • R. Grunwald and M. Bock, Nondiffracting single photons and quantum interference experiments, SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures, July 21-24, 2008, Universitá di Roma "La Sapienza", Minisymp "Localized waves and related phenomena".
  •  S. Huferath, R. Grunwald, M. Bock, Axicon-based Shack-Hartmann sensors for extreme parameters, Young Scientists International Workshop, in Frame of the Workshop Applied Photonics, Laser Laboratorium Goettingen, April 26, 2007.
  • R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, Ultrashort pulses: challenges and prospects for optical metrology, Workshop Optical Metrology: New ways into the future, Worpswede, Dec. 8, 2006.
  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, U. Neumann, G. Stibenz, and G. Steinmeyer, Fringe-free nondiffracting beams for advanced laser diagnostics and processing, CLEO/QELS 2006, Long Beach, May 21-26, 2006, Technical Digest CD-ROM, paper CMX1. 
  • R. Grunwald, Thin-film microoptical approaches for improving the beam quality of diode lasers, Sino-German Workshop GZ 313, Advances in Diodes and Diode Pumped Lasers, Sep. 25 - Sept. 30, 2005, Beijing, China.
  • R. Grunwald and V. Kebbel, Ultrafast and ultrabroadband spatio-temporal processing with thin-film microoptics, Frontiers in Optics 2005, 89th OSA Annual Meeting, Topical Meeting on Passive Photonic Devices, Tucson, Arizona, October 17-20, 2005, Conference Proceedings (CD-ROM), Paper FWS4.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, G. Stibenz, G. Steinmeyer, V. Kebbel, and M. Piché, Recent advances in thin-film microoptics, OPTO Ireland Symposium 2005 (SPIE), Conference IRE04, Dublin, Ireland, April 4-5, 2005; CD-ROM Proc. SPIE 5823-58275827-21.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, and V. Kebbel, Generation of small-angle localized light waves with thin-film microoptics, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium 2004 (PIERS 2004), Workshop on localized waves, Pisa, Italy, March 28-31, 2004; Conference Digest (CD-ROM), session 61, paper 8.
  • A. Aznar, R. Solé, M. Aguilo, F. Diaz, U. Griebner, R. Grunwald, and V. Petrov, Growth and laser operation of an Yb-doped epitaxial tungstate crystal Yb:KY(WO4)2/KY(WO4)2, CLEO / QELS 2004, San Francisco, May 16-21, 2004, Conference Digest (CD-ROM), paper CThE3.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, V. Kebbel, and H.-J. Kuehn, Spatio-temporal control of laser beams with thin-film shapers, Proc. SPIE 5333, 1-11 (2004).
  • R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, and M. Piché, Spatio-temporal processing of femtosecond laser pulses with thin-film microoptics, Proc. SPIE 5181, 1-11 (2003).
  • R. Grunwald, H.-J. Paetzold, and U. Griebner, Short-Pulse KrF laser with M2 reduction by a super-Gaussian mirror, Proc. SPIE 3611, 102-111 (1999). 

Selected conference talks (2000-2010):

  • M. Bock and R. Grunwald, Ultrashort-pulsed, ultra-broadband nondiffracting tubular beam generated with a phase only spatial light modulator, DPG Spring Meeting, Hannover, Germany, March 2010 (accepted), session Q 34.3, paper F 342. NEW!
  • S. K. Das, M. Bock, A. Rosenfeld, and R. Grunwald, Laser-induced periodic nanostructures on ZnO surfaces with a patterned beam in water environment, CLEO/QELS 2010 (accepted). NEW!
  • S. K. Das, M. Tischer, U. Neumann, and R. Grunwald, Femtosecond-laser induced nanostructures in fused silica fibers, Laser Optics Berlin, 2010 (accepted). NEW!
  • S. Huferath-von Luepke, V. Kebbel, M. Bock, and R. Grunwald, Simulation of pulsed Bessel-like beams, Laser Optics Berlin, 2010 (accepted). NEW!
  • M. Bock, S. K. Das, A. Richter, J. T. Preusse, and R. Grunwald, Programmable supercollimated ultrashort pulses, Laser Optics Berlin, 2010 (accepted). NEW!
  • A. Richter, M. Bock, J. Jahns, and R. Grunwald, Orbital angular momentum experiments with broadband few cycle pulses, SPIE Photonics West, January 23-28, San Francisco 2010 (accepted); Proc. SPIE 7613-7 (2010).
  • M. Bock, S. K. Das, R. Grunwald, Spatio-spectral encoding of nondiffracting ultrashort pulses, Workshop Optics in Computing (Optik in der Rechentechnik, ORT), collocated to ECOC (European Conference on Optical Communication),Sept.  24, 2009, Vienna, Austria.
  • S. Huferath-von Luepke, M. Bock, and R. Grunwald, Adaptive Bessel-autocorrelation of ultrashort pulses with phase-only spatial light modulators, SPIE Europe - Optical Metrology at Laser Munich 2009, June 14-18, Munich 2009, Proc. SPIE 7390-10 (2009).
  • J. Jahns, H. Knuppertz, R. Grunwald, and M. Bock, Microoptical CDM-technique for satellite communications, Joint Meeting of DGAO-SIOF, June 2-5, 2009, Brescia, Italy, paper C21. 
  • D. Dufft, A. Rosenfeld, S. K. Das, R. Grunwald, and J. Bonse, Mechanisms of Femtosecond-Laser Induced Surface Structuring of Zinc Oxide Crystals, CLEO Europe - EQEC, Munich 2009, paper CM4.1.

  • T. Hansel, G. Steinmeyer, K. Reimann, R. Grunwald, and U. Griebner, F. Schneider, and U. Wallrabe, High-speed contouring of an adaptive fluidic lens with two-wavelength single-pulse digital holography, Digital Holography and Three-dimensional imaging, OSA Topical Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada, April 26-30 (2009), paper DMA6.
  • T. Hansel, G. Steinmeyer, K. Reimann, R. Grunwald, and U. Griebner, High-precision Contouring of Rapidly Oscillating Optical Surfaces with Two-wavelength Single-shot Digital Holography, CLEO/IQEC 2009, Baltimore, paper CTuAA1.

  • M. Bock, S. K. Das, and R. Grunwald, Ultrashort-pulsed nondiffracting images, CLEO/IQEC 2009, Baltimore, paper CME4.
  • T. Hansel, R. Grunwald, G. Steinmeyer, U. Griebner, F. Schneider, and U. Wallrabe, Time-resolved two-wavelength contouring of adaptive fluidic PDMS-lenses, submitted to SPIE Europe Optics+Optoelectronics 2009, Conference on Holography and Modern Trends, April 20 - 24, 2009, Prague, Czech Republic, Proc. SPIE 7358, 735809-1 (2009).
  • S. K. Das, M. Bock, C. O'Neill, R. Grunwald, K. M. Lee, H. W. Lee, S. Lee, and F. Rotermund, Highly-efficient second harmonic generation in ZnO nanorods with ultrashort pulses, CLEO/IQEC 2009, Baltimore, paper IML6.
  • M. Bock and R. Grunwald, Spatial light modulation and projection of few-femtosecond laser pulses with liquid-crystal-on-silicon microdisplays, Summer School, International Photonics Cluster, Berlin 2008.
  • S. Huferath-von Luepke, V. Kebbel, M. Bock, and R. Grunwald, Noncollinear autocorrelation with radially symmetric nondiffracting beams, SPIE Optics+Photonics / Optical Engineering + Applications / Advanced Metrology Conference, San Diego, USA, 2008, in: Proc. SPIE 7063, 706311-706311-12 (2008).
  • M. Bock, S. K. Das, R. Grunwald, S. Osten, P. Staudt, G. Stibenz, High fidelity ultrashort-pulse transfer with spatial light modulators, LOB Berlin 2008; see also: 
    Brochure Optische Technologien, The Congress Laser Optics Berlin 2009, Chapter 4.3, pp. 54-55 (BMBF, Berlin 2009); pdf

  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, and J. Jahns, Femtosecond laser pulse shaping with microoptical retroreflector arrays, CLEO 2008, San José, Technical Digest CD-ROM, paper, CTuU3.

  • T. Hansel, R. Grunwald, G. Steinmeyer, U. Griebner, J. Bonitz, C. Kaufmann, Erzeugung mehrerer spektral getrennter Femtosekundenpulse und deren Anwendung zur Formvermessung schnell bewegter Objekte, DPG-Tagung, 2008, Arbeitskreis: Atome, Moleküle, Quantenoptik und Plasmen (AMOP), Darmstadt.
  • T. Hansel, G. Steinmeyer, R. Grunwald, C. Falldorf, C. von Kopylow, W. Jüptner, and U. Griebner, Simultaneous recording of digital holograms using a two-wavelength femtosecond laser source, CLEO Europe IQEC, Munich, June 17-22, 2007, Technical Digest CD-ROM, paper CC5-6-FRI.
  • T. Hansel, G. Steinmeyer, R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, C. Falldorf, J. Müller, C. von Kopylow, and W. Jüptner, Simultaneous generation of two spectrally separated fs-pulses for 2-lambda contouring with digital holography, Frühjahrstagung DPG, Düsseldorf 2007, Arbeitskreis: Atome, Moleküle, Quantenoptik und Plasmen (AMOP), paper Q43.2. 
  •  R. Grunwald, S. Huferath, M. Bock, Robust Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing with ultraflat microaxicons, SPIE Europe Optical Metrology, Munich, June 18-21, 2007, Proc. SPIE 6617-13.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, M. Bock, and G. Steinmeyer, Young's interference experiment with ultrashort-pulsed Bessel beams, CLEO/QELS 2007, Baltimore, May 6-11, 2007, Technical Digest CD-ROM, paper CThM7.
  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, Spatio-spectral analysis and encoding of ultrashort pulses with higher-order statistical moments, Baltimore, May 6-11, 2007, Technical Digest, paper CThM2.
  •  F. Saas, U. Zeimer, R. Grunwald, W. Pittroff, M. Zorn, M. Weyers, and U. Griebner, Räumlich aufgelöste Charakterisierung optisch gepumpter Halbleiterscheibenlaser, DPG Frühjahrstagung Quantenoptik und Photonik, Frankfurt/Main, 13.-17.03.2006, Technical Digest 114-115, paper Q6.
  • R. Grunwald, Thin-film microoptical approaches, 1st Int. Summer School Adaptive Optics and Microoptics, Berlin 2006, Abstracts. 
  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, and G. Wernicke, Nondiffracting ultrafast images generated with SLM and microaxicon arrays, 1st Int. Summer School Adaptive Optics and Microoptics, Berlin 2006.
  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, G. Steinmeyer, M. Bock, G. Steinmeyer, and G. Stibenz, Graxicons for hyperspectral diagnostics of few-cycle laser pulses, CLEO/QELS 2007, Long Beach, May 21-26, 2006, Technical Digest CD-ROM CWJ2 . 
  • F. Saas, R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, U. Zeimer, M. Zorn, W. Pittroff, and M. Weyers, Optically pumped surface-emitting semiconductor disk lasers with high spatial and spectral homogeneity, CLEO/QELS 2006, Long Beach, May 21-26, 2006, Technical Digest CD-ROM, paper CFO4.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, M. Bock, K. Mann, B. Schäfer, and V. Kebbel, Wavefront sensing at extreme parameters, Laser Optik Berlin (LOB), Abstracts, paper CFO4.
  • H. Knuppertz, J. Jahns, and R. Grunwald, Ultrafast optical tapped-delay line using the self-imaging effect - recent experiments, 8th Workshop Optics in Computing (Optik in der Rechentechnik), Sept. 23, 2005, TU Ilmenau, collocated with the 50th International Scientific Colloquium "Mechanical Engineering - from Macro to Nano", Sept. 19-23, 2005.
  •  U. Neumann, R. Grunwald, A. Rosenfeld, J. Li, and P. Herman, Deep-UV laser microstructuring of dielectric materials with arrays of nondiffracting beams, CLEO Europe 2005, Munich, june 22-27, 2005, Conference Digest (CD-ROM), paper CM1-3-TUE.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, and H.-J- Kühn, Nanolayer microoptics for laser beam shaping at extreme parameters, CLEO/Europe, Munich, June 12-17, 2005, Conference Digest (CD-ROM), paper CK2-3-THU.
  • R. Grunwald, S. Langer, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, G. Stibenz, G. Steinmeyer, V. Kebbel, M. Piché, and J.-L. Néron, Characterization of ultrashort pulses with spatio-temporal and angular resolution, CLEO 2005, Baltimore, May 23-27 (2005), Conference Digest (CD-ROM), paper CThP2.
  • U. Griebner, S. Rivier, J. Liu, R. Grunwald, V. Petrov, A. Aznar, R. Sole, M. Aguilo, and F. Diaz, Continuous-wave and mode-locked laser operation of epitaxially grown Yb:KLu(WO4)2 composites, CLEO 2005, Baltimore, May 23-27 (2005), Conference Digest (CD-ROM), paper CTuQ4.
  •  R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, S. Langer, G. Stibenz, G. Steinmeyer, V. Kebbel, M. Piché, and J.-L. Néron, Ultrabroadband spectral transfer in extended focal zones: truncated few-cycle Bessel-Gauss beams, CLEO 2005, Baltimore, May 23-27 (2005), Conference Digest (CD-ROM), paper CTuAA6.
  •   R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, G. Stibenz, G. Steinmeyer, V. Kebbel,  J.-L. Néron, and M. Piché, Truncated ultrashort-pulse small-angle Bessel beams, Photonics North, September 27-29, 2004, Ottawa, Canada, Proc. SPIE 5579D-113 (2004).
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, U. Neumann, and V. Kebbel, Self-reconstruction of ultrashort-pulse Bessel-like X-waves, CLEO / QELS 2004, san Francisco, may 16-21, 2004, Conference Digest (CD-ROM), paper CMQ.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, K. Reimann, G. Steinmeyer, and V. Kebbel, Wavefront autocorrelation of femtosecond laser beams . Grunwald, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, K. Reimann, G. Steinmeyer, V. Kebbel, Wavefront autocorrelation of femtosecond laser beams, Photonics West, San José, Jan. 24-29, 2004, Proc. SPIE 5333, 122-130 (2004).
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, V. Kebbel, and K. Mann, Thin-film microaxicon arrays for beam shaping and characterization of vacuum ultraviolet lasers, CLEO Europe 2003, Munich, June 22-27, 2003, Conference Digest (CD-ROM), paper CM3-THU.
  • U. Neumann, R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, G. Steinmeyer, M. Woerner, and W. Seeber: Second harmonic characteristics of photonic composite glass layers with ZnO nanocrystallites for ultrafast applications, Proc. SPIE 4972, 112-121 (2003).
  • G. Seewald and R. Grunwald, Spatially resolved measurement of slow-axis pseudo near-field of diode laser arrays, ICAPT / Photonics North, June 2-6, 2002, Quebec, Canada,  in: Applications of Photonic Technology 5, Eds.: R. A. Lessard, G. A. Lampropolous, G. W. Schinn, Proc. SPIE 4833, 900-905 (2002).
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, U. Neumann, A. Kummrow, E. T. J. Nibbering, M. Rini, V. Kebbel, M. Piché, G. Rousseau, and M. Fortin, Femtosecond laser beam shaping with structured thin-film elements ICAPT / Photonics North, June 2-6, 2002, Quebec, Canada, in: Applications of Photonic Technology 5, Eds.: R. A. Lessard, G. A. Lampropolous, G. W. Schinn, Proc. SPIE 4833, 354-361 (2002).
  • R. Grunwald, U. J. Neumann, and V. Kebbel, Femtosecond laser wavefront sensing with thin-film microaxicon arrays, OSA Annual Meeting, Orlando, Sept. 29 – Oct. 03, 2002, Conference Program, 129, paper ThQ5.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, U. Neumann, A. Kummrow, E. T. J. Nibbering, M. Piché, G. Rousseau, M. Fortin, and V. Kebbel, Generation of ultrashort-pulse nondiffracting beams and X-waves with thin-film axicons, 13th Int. Conf. on Ultrafast Phenomena, May 12-17, 2002, Vancouver, Canada, Technical Digest, 70-71; Ultrafast Phenomena XIII, Ed.: M. Murnane, N. F. Scherer, A. M. Weiner (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York, Nov. 2002, pp. 247-249.
  • F. Dörfel, S. Nerreter, J. W. Tomm, R. Grunwald, R. Kunkel, and J. Luft, Micro-Reflectance Inspection of Diode Laser Front Facets, Photonic West, San Jose,  2002, Proc. SPIE Vol. 4648 (2002), 48-54.
  •  R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, U. Griebner, E. T. J. Nibbering, A. Kummrow, M. Rini, T. Elsaesser, and W. Jüptner, Spectral shaping of femtosecond X-waves, CLEO 2002, May 19-24, Long Beach, CA, Technical Digest, 522-423.
  • R. Grunwald, V. Kebbel, U. Griebner, E. T. J. Nibbering, A. Kummrow, and M. Rini, Coherence mapping of femtosecond lasers, CLEO 2002, May 19-24, Long Beach, CA, Technical Digest, 84-85.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, E. T. J. Nibbering, A. Kummrow, T. Elsaesser, and V. Kebbel, Spatial frequency effects of polychromatic ultrashort pulse Bessel beam arrays, CLEO 2001, Baltimore, May 56-11, 2001, Technical Digest, Paper CThS4, 516-517.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, T. Elsaesser, V. Kebbel, H.-J. Hartmann, and W. Jüptner, Characterization of the coherence homogeneity of femtosecond lasers by microoptical multichannel interferometry, CLEO/Europe - EQEC Focus Meetings 2001, Progress in Solid State Lasers, Munich,  June 18-22, 2001, Conference Digest, 43.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, T. Elsaesser, V. Kebbel, H.-J. Hartmann, and W. Jüptner, Femtosecond interference experiments with thin-film micro-optical components, 4th Int. Workshop on Automatic Processing of Fringe Patterns, BIAS Bremen, Sept. 17-19, 2001, in: W. Osten, W. Jüptner (Eds.), Fringe 2001, Elsevier, Paris 2001, 33-40.
  • R. Grunwald, S. Nerreter, J. W. Tomm, S. Schwirzke-Schaaf, and F. Dörfel, Automated high-accuracy measuring system for specular micro-reflectivity, Conference Optical Metrology Roadmap for the Semiconductor, Optical, and Data Storage Industries II (AM424), SPIE`s 46th Annual Meeting, Int. Sympos. on Optical Science and Technology, 29 July-3 August 2001, San Diego, CA, USA; Proc. SPIE 4449, 111-118, (2001).
  • R. Grunwald, S. Nerreter, U. Griebner, and H.-J. Kuehn, Design, characterization and application of multilayer micro-optics, Conference Gradient Index, Miniature and Diffractive Optical Systems II (AM407), SPIE`s 46th Annual Meeting, Int. Sympos. on Optical Science and Technology, 29 July-3 August 2001, San Diego, CA, USA; Proc. SPIE 4437, 40-49 (2001).
  • S. Nerreter, R. Grunwald, A. Bärwolff, and J. W. Tomm, High-accuracy reflectance mapping of microoptical components, Optical Fabrication and Testing (OFT 2000), OSA Topical Meeting, Quebec, Canada, June 18-22, Summaries of Post Deadline Papers of DOMO 2000 and OFT 2000, Post Deadline Paper OPD2-1.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, F. Tschirschwitz, E. T. J. Nibbering, T. Elsaesser, and V. Kebbel, Femtosecond interference effects generated by refractive thin-film micro-optics, CLEO Europe, Nice (Nizza) 2000, Conference Digest, CThJ2, 340.
  • U. Griebner, R. Grunwald, and H. Schönnagel, Laser with cladding pump scheme for short planar waveguides, CLEO 2000, San Francisco, May 7-12, 2000, Paper CFH6, Technical Digest, 601-602.
  • U. Griebner, J. Huschke, R. Grunwald, H. Schoennagel, and G. Erbert, Cladding-pumped Yb:YAG planar waveguide laser, Topical Meeting on Advanced Solid State Lasers, Feb. 13-16, 2000, Davos, Paper MD5, Proceedings: Trends in Optics and Photonics, TOPS, Vol. 34, 2000, 431-433. 

Selected conference posters (2000-2009):

  • M. Bock, J. T. Preusse, and R. Grunwald, Spatio-temporal analysis of ultrashort pulses by statistical signatures of frequency converted needle beams, CLEO/QELS 2010, poster (accepted). NEW!
  • S. K. Das, D. Byrne, E. McGlynn, M. Bock, and R. Grunwald, Multi-photon excited UV luminescence of ZnO nanorods after irradiation with few-nJ femtosecond laser pulses, CLEO/QELS 2010. poster (accepted). NEW!
  • K. Dasari, S. K. Das, A. Rosenfeld, and R. Grunwald, Generation of extended-area femtosecond laser induced periodic nanostructures on TiO2 by moving samples through a line focus, SPIE Photonics West, January 23-28, San Francisco 2010, accepted; Proc. SPIE 7586-20 (2010), submitted. NEW!
  • S. K. Das, M. Bock, E. McGlynn, M. Biswas, and R. Grunwald, Strong multiphoton-absorption-induced UV luminescence from ZnO nanorod arrays grown by vapour-liquid-solid mechanism, CLEO Europe - EQEC, Munich 2009, poster CF.P2.
  • M. Bock and R. Grunwald, Flexible spatial-domain beam shaping of few-cycle pulses with reflective phase-only liquid crystal displays, CLEO Europe - EQEC, Munich 2009, poster EI.P.11. 
  • S. K. Das, D. Dufft, M. Bock, A. Rosenfeld, J. Bonse, and R. Grunwald, Femtosecond-laser induced sub-200 nm strcutures in TiO2, CLEO/IQEC 2009, Baltimore,  poster JWA1.
  • H. Knuppertz, M. Bohling, J. Jahns, M. Bock, and R. Grunwald, Ultraprecisely machined microoptics for fs-pulse shaping and replication, Ultrafast Phenomena 2008, June 9-13, 2008, Stresa (Lago Maggiore), Italy, Poster THUIIIa.4.
  • T. Hansel, G. Steinmeyer, R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, C. Falldorf, C. von Kopylow, J. Bonitz, and C. Kaufmann, Digital holographic two-wavelength contouring of high speed MEMS using ultrashort laser pulses, Mikrosystemtechnik-Kongress, Dresden, Oct. 15-17, 2007.
  • R. Grunwald, M. Bock, Bessel-type interference patterns detected in single photon regime, CLEO Europe IQEC, Munich, June 17-22 (2007), Technical Digest CD-ROM, Paper IF-13-TUE.
  • W. Seeber, R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, I. Gugov, and M. Müller, High-performance materials based on nonlinear optical composites of ZnO-nanolayers and RE-doped oxyfluoride glasses, 8th International Otto Schott Colloquium, July 23 - 27, 2006, Jena, Germany, Proceedings P 83.
  • L. Ehrentraut, A. Rosenfeld, R. Grunwald, and U. Griebner, Polishing and micro-structuring of Zerodur and ULE using ultrashort laser pulses, SPIE Workshop Laser Applications in Europe (LAE '05), Dresden, Nov. 23-24, 2005, Technical Digest CD-ROM, paper 6157-729.
  • M. Ferstl, G. Devendra, R. Grunwald, and M. Bock, Lithographically fabricated micro-optical array beam shapers for ultra-short pulse lasers, CLEO/QELS 2006, Long Beach, May 21-26, 2006, technical Digest CD-ROM, paper JThC98.
  • U. Neumann, R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, G. Steinmeyer, and W. Seeber, High second harmonic conversion efficiency of ZnO nanolayers for ultrafast laser applications, CLEO Europe 2005, Munich, June 22-27, 2005, paper CD-22-MO.
  • U. Griebner, S. Rivier, J. Liu, M. Rico, R. Grunwald, V. Petrov, X. Mateos, A. Aznar, J. Massons, J. Gavalda, R. Solé, M. Aguiló, and F. Díaz, Laser Operation of Bulk Crystals and Epitaxially Grown Composites of Yb:KLu(WO4)2, 20th Anniversary Meeting Advanced Solid State Photonics 2005, Wien, Feb. 6-9, 2005, Technical Digest CD-ROM, Poster TuB9.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, V. Kebbel, and H.-J. Kühn, Microoptical beam shaping of ultrashort laser pulses with low-dispersion components, 10th Microoptics Conference MOC '04, Sept. 1-3, 2004, Jena, CD-ROM, Paper F21.
  • S. Langer, R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, and V. Kebbel, Tilt-tolerance of microaxicons for wavefront sensing of highly divergent beams, 10th Microoptics Conference MOC '04, Sept. 1-3, 2004, Jena, CD-ROM, Paper F20.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, U. Griebner, M. Rini, E. T. J. Nibbering, A. Kummrow, V. Kebbel, M. Piché, G. Rousseau, and M. Fortin, Spatio-temporal autocorrelation of ultrashort-pulse localized wavepackets, CLEO/QELS 2003, Baltimore, June 1.-6, 2003, Technical Digest CD-ROM, QTuG25. 
  • S. Nerreter, R. Grunwald, A. Bärwolff, and J. W. Tomm, Automatisierte ortsaufgelöste Reflektivitätsmessung an mikrooptischen Bauelementen, Workshop Mikrooptik, FernUniversität Gesamthochschule Hagen / DGaO, 28.-29. September 2000.
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, F. Tschirschwitz, E. T. J. Nibbering, P. Hamm, T. Elsaesser, and V. Kebbel, Microoptics for the generation of femtosecond Bessel beam arrays, Diffractive Optics and Micro-Optics Topical Meeting, Optical Society of America (DOMO 2000), Quebec City, Canada, DTuD31Technical Digest, 208-210.

Application notes:

  • R. Grunwald and  M. Bock,  Bessel-type interference patterns detected in single photon regime, Application Note, LOT Darmstadt (2007). pdf

Selected patents:

  • R. Grunwald and M. Bock, Verfahren und Anordnung zur spektralaufgelösten Charakterisierung einer Wellenfront ultrakurzer Laserimpulse (filed December 12, 2005, DE 102005059755B3 patented June 14, 2007).
  • R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, and T. Elsässer, Verfahren zur Leistungserhöhung von optischen Strahlformern und optischer Strahlformer, (filed March 2004, OS DE 10 2004 011 190 A1, September 22, 2005, patented June 22, 2006).
  •  R. Grunwald, U. Neumann, and V. Kebbel, Verfahren und Anordnung zur ortsaufgelösten Charakterisierung der Krümmung einer Wellenfront, (filed Sept. 13, 2002, DE 102 43 838 B3, patented May 19, 2004).
  • A. Fischer and R. Grunwald, Verfahren und Anordnung zur orts- und winkelaufgelösten Reflexionsmessung, (filed August 21, 2002, patented Dec. 24, 2003, DE 102 38 078).
  • J.-W. Tomm and R. Grunwald, Verfahren und Anordnung zur Justierung von optischen Bauelementen zwecks Strahlformung von Halbleiterstrahlungsemittern, (filed July 1, 2001, OS DE 101 35 101, 06.02.2003, patented July 22, 2004).
  • R. Grunwald and H.-J. Kühn, Verfahren und Anordnung zur Erzeugung einer orts- und winkelabhängigen Antireflexionsbeschichtung für mikrooptische Bauelemente, (filed March 19, 2001, DE 101 13 466, patented November 28, 2002).
  • S. Nerreter, R. Grunwald, A. Bärwolff, and J.W. Tomm, Verfahren und Anordnung zur Detektion von Degradationsprozessen an Halbleiterbauelementen wie Laserdioden, (filed September 28, 2000, DE 101 35 101.1).
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, H.-J. Hartmann, V. Kebbel, T. Elsaesser, and W. Jüptner, Verfahren und Anordnung zur orts- und zeitaufgelösten interferometrischen Charakterisierung ultrakurzer Laserimpulse, (filed June 9, 2000; DE 100 28 756 A1, patented May 6, 2004; filed as EP: May 21, 2001, published April 17, 2002, EP 01250179.7; filed in US 2003, US patent Jan. 27, 2004, US 6,683,691 B2).
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, H.-J. Hartmann, V. Kebbel, T. Elsaesser, and W. Jüptner, Verfahren und Anordnung zur Charakterisierung ultrakurzer Laserimpulse,  (filed July 29, 1999, patented April 5, 2001, DE 199 35 631).
  • R. Grunwald, U. Griebner, E. Büttner, and C. Lukas, Verfahren und Anordnung zur zeitlich und spektral aufgelösten Charakterisierung von ultrakurzen Laserimpulsen, (filed July 29, 1999, patented Aug. 07, 2003, DE 199 35 630).
  • R. Grunwald. H. Schönnagel, and K. Schwenkenbecher, Verfahren und Anordnung zur Frequenzkonversion von Laserstrahlung, (filed May 14, 1999, OS DE 199 23 005 A1, November 23, 2000).
  • R. Grunwald, S. Woggon, and U. Neumann, Anordnung zur Strahlformung und räumlich selektiven Detektion mit nicht-sphärischen Mikrolinsen, (filed May 15, 1997, DE OS 197 21 257 A1, patented Jan.27, 2005).
  • R. Grunwald, and H. Zimmermann, Optische Fasersensoren mit lateraler Auflösung, (filed June 18, 1996, DE 196 264 48).
  • R. Grunwald, and S. Woggon, Verfahren zur Herstellung anamorphotischer mikrooptischer Arrays und damit ausgestattete Faserlinse, (filed April 1, 1996, published Oct. 10, 1997, OS DE 196 13 745, patented Feb. 26, 2004).
  • R. Grunwald, and H. Zimmermann, Verfahren und Vorrichtung zur Erfassung von Magnetfeldänderungen, (filed March 22, 1996, June 24, 2003, patented 18.12.2003, DE 196 12 993).
  • R. Grunwald, and H. Zimmermann, Meßverfahren und Anordnung zur Messung der Lage-, Form-, und Bewegungsparameter entfernter Objekte, (filed April 1995, Az 195 16 324.9).
  • R. Grunwald, and U. Griebner, Phasengekoppelter Laser mit mehrfach selbst-abbildendem Resonator, (filed Januar 1995, Az 195 020 545).


Highlights

Full-bandwidth spectral transfer of truncated ultrashort-pulse Bessel beams through a diaphragm in self-apodization setup:

spectral map

Spatio-spectral maps for a 10-fs Bessel beam before and after self-apodizing  truncation
(i.e. the perimeter of diaphragm matches the first minimum of Bessel distribution), left: axial distance from diaphragm z = 0 cm, right: z = 13

Opt. Expr. 16, 1077-1089 (2008)

 

Self-reconstruction of femtosecond Bessel beams:

X-waves in space and time, low-dispersion hybrid refractive-reflective beam shapers)

Self-reconstruction of a significantly disturbed ultrashort-pulse Bessel beam during free-space propagation at different distances:
(a) 2.9 mm, (b) 4 mm, (c) 6 mm, (d) 7 mm, (e) 8 mm, (f) 9 mm, compared with (g) 9 mm without disturbance
(time-integrated, field of view 329 x 320 µm2, disturbing object: 30 µm gold wire at 2.9 mm distance, Ti:sapphire laser,  pulse duration
12 fs). Radial Bessel structure as well as spatio-temporal X-pulse structure information can be reconstructed.

R. Grunwald et al., in: M. Zamboni-Rached, H.
Harnandez-Figueroa, and E. Recami (Eds.), Localized Waves, Theory and experiments, Wiley & Sons, Wiley-Interscience, January 2008.  


VUV beam array generation by ultraflat microoptics:


   



Array of single-maximum nondiffracting VUV beams shaped with ultraflat composite microstructures by exploiting the self-apodization of absorbing layers
(F2-laser @157 nm)
Opt. Lett. 29, 977-979 (2004).

Nonlinear processing with ZnO nanolayers:


     


Nonlinear optical processing of femtosecond wavepackets with nanolayers after time-to-space conversion with thin-film microaxicons:
Array of Bessel-like beamlets generated from a Ti-sapphire laser beam by Gaussian microaxicons and SHG in nanocrystalline ZnO
Opt. Eng.43,
2518-2524 (2004); Appl. Phys. Lett. 87, 171108 (2005).

Ultrafast X-pulses:


First direct detection of few cycle optical Bessel-X-pulses of microscopic size with spatio-temporal autocorrelation
(Ti:sapphire laser, 10 fs pulse duration, SHG in 10 µm BBO, single sub-beam of a beams array)

Phys. Rev. A 67, 063820 (2003).  

Two-dimensional diagnostics of ultrafast wavepackets:

 


Method and arrangement for spatially resolved and time-resolved interferometric autocorrelation of ultrashort pulses (US Patent 6,683,691 B2, May 6, 2004; DE 100 28 756 B4)  

Spatially resolved measurement of an autocorrelation function of a first or higher order is performed by means of a matrix of beam shaping individual elements
Laser Technik Jourrnal (Wiley-VCH), Vol. 2, no. 3, 51-55 (2005); J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 18 (2001), 2923-2931, Opt. Eng. 43, 25318-2524 (2004).

High-fidelity temporal transfer of liquid-crystal-on-silicon spatial light modulators (LCoS-SLM):

 


Temporal pulse structure of a parallel-aligned (PAN) type SLM as a function of gray level
An excellent transfer characteristics was found for pulse durations in the range of 10 fs   
Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 151105 (2008); Laser Magazin 2/2008, 17-18 .

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- to Daniela Dufft on the defense of her Master Thesis on February 24, 2009!

- to Martin Bock for the VDI students award for his Master thesis on May 08, 2009!

- to Kiran Dasari for the defense of his Master Thesis at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), India, in October 2009!

- to Asmus T. N. Richter for the defense of his Master Thesis at FernUniversity Hagen on December 18, 2009!

CONTACT:

Dr. Ruediger Grunwald
Max-Born-Institute for Nonlinear Optics and Short-Pulse Spectroscopy
Max-Born-Strasse 2a, D-12489 Berlin
Phone: +49-30-6392-1457
Fax: +49-30-6392-1459
e-mail:
grunwald@mbi-berlin.de

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March 05, 2010