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• 2024-09-04 Sajjad Vardast won a Poster Prize on ELI Summer School 2024. Congratulations!

• 2024-09-02 An experimental investigation of vacuum laser acceleration is published in Communications Physics, https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-024-01781-9

• 2023-12-14 Ferenc Krausz, one of this year's Nobel laureates in Physics hosted by László Veisz at Umeå University and gave an open lecture. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2023/summary/

• 2023-06-08, Aitor De Andres Gonzalez successfully defended his PhD

• 2023-03-28 A study of spatio-spectral aberrations in NOPAs is published in Optics Express. https://opg.optica.org/oe/fulltext.cfm?uri=oe-31-8-12036&id=528569

• 2023-03-01 The channel TV4 broadcasted a report about the new laser, Light Wave Synthesizer 100. TV4play

• 2022 December 09 Two articles have been published about our laser in Swedish in NyTeknik and Västerbottens-Kuriren https://www.nyteknik.se/laser-partiklar-premium/umea-har-nu-sveriges-kraftfullaste-laser-unikt-system/1186423          https://www.vk.se/2022-12-08/lasersystem-i-umea-kan-fota-elektroner-som-ror-sig?step=buy&loggedin 

• 2022 November 07, The 100 TW, 4.3 fs Light Wave Sythesizer has been inaugurated! https://www.umu.se/en/news/unique-laser-system-inaugurated-in-umea-_11681834/

• 2022 August 10, We welcome Sajjad Vardast as a new PhD student in the REAL team!

• 2022 June 2, A simple way to characterize µm-sized XUV and soft X-ray focus is published in Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12115652

• 2022 October 10, Peter Fischer successfully defended his PhD

• 2022 August 10, We welcome Sajjad Vardast as a new PhD student in the REAL team!

• 2022 June 2, A simple way to characterize µm-sized XUV and soft X-ray focus is published in Applied Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/app12115652

• 2022 May 31, Alexander Muschet finished his postdoc. We  wish him all the best for his future career and private life!

• 2022 May 24 Aitor De Andrés González got the Prize "Honorable Contribution to Educational Quality". We congratulate him!

• 2022 January 26, Using temporal superresolution to generate multi-TW sub-4-fs light pulses is published in Optics Express. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.447846

• 2021 June 04, Alexander Muschet successfully defended his PhD.

• 2021 April, we welcome Fritz Schnur as a new PhD student in the group.

• 2021 February 15, Generation of low-divergence X-ray pulses with femtosecond duration by electrons from laser-wakefield acceleration is published in Nature Physics. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-01158-z

• 2021 January 1, The 4-year VR project "Nonlinear attosecond spectrosocpy" utilizing attosecond XUV pump - attosecond XUV probe techniques has been funded.

• 2021 June 04, Alexander Muschet successfully defended his PhD

• 2021 February 15, Generation of low-divergence X-ray pulses with femtosecond duration by electrons from laser-wakefield acceleration is published in Nature Physics. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-020-01158-z

• 2021 January 26, Control of saturation in a broadband OPCPA system is published in Optics Express. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.415564

• 2021 January 1, The 4-year VR project "Nonlinear attosecond spectrosocpy" utilizing attosecond XUV pump - attosecond XUV probe techniques has been funded.

• 2020 November 30, Review about post-compression techniques to generate high-energy "few-cycle pulse" is published in Advances in Physics: X  https://doi.org/10.1080/23746149.2020.1845795

• 2020 November 30, Experimental study about electron bunch evolution including dephasing in a laser-wakefield accelerator is published in Phys. Rev. Accel. Beams  https://journals.aps.org/prab/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevAccelBeams.23.112803

• 2020 October 21, Investigations of high-charge electron beams in laser-plasma wakefields including beamloading with a few-cycle driver is published in Phys. Rev. X  https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.10.041015

• 2020 January 1, The 6-year VR Research Environment Grant 'Relativistic nanophotonics' has been funded and the project has started

• 2019 October 1, The 5-year Wallenberg research project ”Plasmon-exciton coupling at the attosecond-subnanometer scale:  Tailoring strong light-matter interactions at room temperature” has been funded.

• 2019 August 15, Contrast improvement of sub-4  fs laser pulses is published in Optics Letters https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-44-16-4028

• 2019 May 13, Electron acceleration from nanoplasmas with the highest ever accelerating fields above TV/m in the relativistic nanophotonics regime published in Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-43635-3

• 2019 February 28, Controlled generation of femtosecond twin-electron beams from a laser-driven accelerator published in Nature Photonics https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-019-0356-z

• 2018 December 5, ATTOWORLD Laboratory for Attosecond Physics - Press release, Brief Reflections from a Plasma Mirror https://www.attoworld.de/pressrelease/?tx_attoworld_pi18%5Buid%5D=321&cHash=968c1aa3d916127d058b4cdb88d3de9a

• 2018 November 26, Spectral interferometry and laser-waveform dependent isolated attosecond pulse generation from relativistic plasma surfaces published in Nature Communications https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07421-5

• 2018 October 12, Generation of isolated attosecond pulses independently from the waveform (CEP) of driving laser in the 100 eV spectral region published in Optica https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.001283

• 2018 March 12, Alexander Muschet wins the Best Poster Prize on the 10th Asian Symposium on Intense Laser Science (ASILS10)

• 2018 February 23, First nonlinear interaction with attosecond pulses at 100 eV photon energy in Xenon published in Optica  https://doi.org/10.1364/OPTICA.5.000237