Curriculum Vitae
Thomas Brabec
Personal Data
Date of Birth: 10. 04. 1964
Place of Birth: Linz, Austria
Nationality: Austrian
University Education:
1988 Dipl. Ing. (eqivalent to masters) in Tech. Physics (TU Vienna).
1992: Doctor of Technics (equivalent to Ph.D.) in Laser Physics (TU Vienna).
1998: Habilitation in quantum electronics and laser technology (TU Wien).
Career History:
1992: Research assistent at the TU Vienna
1994-1996: APART grant of the Austrian Academy of Science
1995: Visiting scientist with Dr. Paul Corkum, NRC Canada
1998: Assistent Professor at the TU Vienna
Publications:
60 publications in scientific journals, 2 invited lectures.
Research interests:
Laser physics, theory of generation, propagation, and application of ultrashort
pulses; nonlinear optics; theoretical analysis of high intensity light-matter
interactions in atomic and plasma physics; theory of X-ray sources and of
matter-X-ray interaction.
Relevant publications of the last 5 years
1. Ch. Spielmann, P. F. Curley, T. Brabec, and F. Krausz, 1994, „Ultrabroadband femtosecond lasers,'' IEEE J. Quantum Electron. 30, 1100.
2. T. Brabec, S. M. J. Kelly, and F. Krausz, 1995, „Passive modelocking in solid
state lasers,“ in Compact sources of ultrashort pulses, edited by I. N. Duling III
(Cambridge University Press), 57.
3. P. Kálmán and T. Brabec, 1995, „Generation of coherent hard-x-ray radiation
generated in crystalline solids by high-intensity femtosecond laser pulses,“
Phys. Rev. A 52, R21.
4. M. Y. Ivanov, T. Brabec, and N. H. Burnett, 1996, „Coulomb corrections and
polarization effects in high-intensity high-harmonic emission,'“Phys. Rev. A
54, 742.
5. C. Kan, C. E. Capjack, R. Rankin, T. Brabec, and N. H. Burnett, „Phasematched frequency conversion in ionizing atomic gases,“ 1996, Phys. Rev. A
54, R1026.
6. T. Brabec, M. Y. Ivanov, and P. B. Corkum, 1996, „Coulomb focusing in
intense field atomic processes,“ Phys. Rev. A 54, R2551.
7. L. Xu, Ch. Spielmann, A. Poppe, T. Brabec, F. Krausz, and T. W. Hänsch,
1996, „Route to phase control of ultrashort light pulses,“ Opt. Lett. 21, 2008.
8. T. Brabec and F. Krausz, 1997, „Nonlinear optical pulse propagation in the
single-cycle regime,'“ Phys. Rev. Lett., 78, 3282.
9. M. Schnürer, Ch. Spielmann, P. Wobrauschek, C. Streli, N. H. Burnett, C.
Kan, K. Ferenz, R. Koppitsch, Z. Cheng, T. Brabec, and F. Krausz, 1998,
„Coherent 0.5-keV x-ray emission from helium driven by a sub-10fs laser,''
Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 3236.
10. G. Tempea and T. Brabec, 1998, „Theorie of self-focusing in hollow
waveguides'', Opt. Lett. 23, 762.
11. G. Tempea and T. Brabec, 1998, „A nonlinear source for the generation of
high-energy several cycle optical pulses, Opt. Lett. 23, 1286.
12. Ch. Spielmann, C. Kan, N. H. Burnett, T. Brabec, M. Geissler, A. Scrinzi, M.
Schnürer, and F. Krausz, 1998, „Ultrafast near-keV coherent x-ray sources
pumped by sub-10fs lasers,“ IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum
Electronics 4, 249.
13. F. Krausz, T. Brabec, M. Schnürer, and Ch. Spielmann, 1998, „Extreme
Nonlinear Optics: Exposing Matter to a few Periods of Light,“ Optics &
Photonics News 9, 46.
14. G. Tempea, M. Geissler, and T. Brabec, 1999 „Phase sensitivity of high-order
harmonic generation with few-cycle laser pulses,“ J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 16, 669.
15. M. Schnürer, Z. Cheng, M. Hentschel, G. Tempea, P. Kálamán, T. Brabec,
and F. Krausz, 1999, „Absorption-limited generation of coherent ultrashort
soft-x-ray pulses,“ to be published in Phys. Rev. Lett.
16. A. Scrinzi, M. Geissler, and T. Brabec, 1999, „Above Barrier Ionization,“ to be
published in Phys. Rev. Lett. (July)
17. M. Geissler, G. Tempea, A. Scrinzi, M. Schnürer, F. Krausz, and T. Brabec,
1999, „Light propagation in field-ionizing media,'' submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett.
18. G. Tempea, M. Geissler, and T. Brabec, 1999, ‘’Self-phase matched high
harmonic generation with few-cycle laser pulses,’’ submitted to Phys. Rev.
Lett.
19. T. Brabec and F. Krausz, 1999, „Intense few-cycle laser fields: frontiers of
nonlinear optics,“ submitted to Review of Modern Physics.