Optics, Photonics & Lasers

Biography

Birger Seifert is an expert in the field of ultrashort light pulse characterization and his Doctor thesis was focused on this topic. He has in depth knowledge of the state of the art optical methods for the characterization of ultrashort light pulses, and the precluding background to the present status. In 2006 he invented and patented the dual spectrogram method known as very advanced method for phase and intensity retrieval of e-fields (VAMPIRE). He also works in quantum optics generating squeezed light, exploring quantum-well structures and quantum dots and measuring the coherent secondary emission from excitons bringing new insight about the decoherence processes in semiconductors.

Abstract

Abstract : Unambiguous ultrashort pulse reconstruction from double spectrograms alone