PhD student or Postdoc: Fiber Optics

For our location in Hamburg we are seeking:

Limited: 2 + 1 years | Starting date: earliest possible | ID: FSDO004/2024 | Deadline: open | Full-time/Part-time

DESY, with more than 3000 employees at its two locations in Hamburg and Zeuthen, is one of the world's leading research centres. Its research focuses on decoding the structure and function of matter, from the smallest particles of the universe to the building blocks of life. In this way, DESY contributes to solving the major questions and urgent challenges facing science, society and industry. With its ultramodern research infrastructure, its interdisciplinary research platforms and its international networks, DESY offers a highly attractive working environment in the fields of science, technology and administration as well as for the education of highly qualified young scientists.

Ultrafast lasers represent a key enabling technology for research efforts at DESY. They are used to generate and manipulate electron beams at the free electron laser facilities FLASH and XFEL, enable pump-probe experiments at those facilities and will drive future compact accelerators at DESY.

For many of these applications, mJ-level ultrafast laser pulses need to be efficiently transported to application targets. Within a compact laser-accelerator project, we want to explore guided wave technology, such as hollow-core fibers for laser transport. In particular, routes to scale those concepts to extreme bandwidths and peak powers approaching the TW-regime will be targeted. The project will cover aspects reaching from numerical pulse propagation simulations to experimentally testing those concepts with a main focus on the experimental side. We are seeking a self-driven, highly motivated laser scientist or PhD student with background in fiber optics.