Awards
2022 – Julian Fischer “Maiman Paper Competition” (finalist)
Julian Fischer, Jakub Drs, Michael Müller, Norbert Modsching, François Labaye, Valentin J. Wittwer, Thomas Südmeyer
“Efficient high-peak-power 50-fs-class Yb:YAG thin-disk laser oscillator”
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) 2022, San Jose, California, oral #SF4E.4
2022 – Julian Fischer “Best Student Paper Award”
Julian Fischer, Jakub Drs, François Labaye, Norbert Modsching, Michael Müller, Valentin J. Wittwer, Thomas Südmeyer
“High Harmonic Generation Inside Thin-Disk Laser Oscillators – An Efficient and Single-Stage XUV Source”
Optica High-brightness Sources and Light-driven Interactions Congress (2022), Budapest, Hungary, oral #HW2B.3
2021 – Julian Fischer “Student Paper Award”
Julian Fischer, Jakub Drs, Norbert Modsching, François Labaye, Valentin J. Wittwer, Thomas Südmeyer
“Powerful Sub-40-fs Yb:YAG Thin-Disk Laser Oscillator Operating in the Regime of Strong Self-Phase Modulation”
Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference (2021), virtual event, oral #AW2A.2
2021 – Jakub Drs “Best Student Presentation Award”
Jakub Drs, Julian Fischer, Norbert Modsching, François Labaye, Valentin J. Wittwer, Thomas Südmeyer
“100-W, 100-MW, 50-fs thin-disk laser oscillator based on Yb:YAG”
European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM) 2021, Rome, Italy, oral #TOM13 S07:1
2020 – Julian Fischer “Student Paper Award Winner – Oral Presentations”
Julian Fischer, Jakub Drs, François Labaye, Norbert Modsching, Valentin J. Wittwer, Thomas Südmeyer
“Intra-Oscillator High Harmonic Generation in a ~100-fs Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Yb:YAG Thin-Disk Laser”
Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference (2020), virtual event, oral #AF3A.2
2019 – Pierre Brochard “Best Student Paper Award” (finalist)
Pierre Brochard, Erwan Lucas, Romain Bouchand, Stéphane Schilt, Thomas Südmeyer, Tobias J. Kippenberg,
“Optical-to-Microwave Frequency Division with a Kerr-Frequency-Comb Transfer Oscillator”
European Frequency and Time Forum & IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (2019), Orlando, USA, oral #MoAT3.1
2018 – Nayara Jornod “Prix Léon Du Pasquier et Louis Perrier”
Nayara Jornod, Thomas Südmeyer (Dir.)
“Semiconductor disk laser-based frequency combs”
Doctoral thésis, Université de Neuchâtel, 2018
2018 – Pierre Brochard “Best Student Paper Award”
Pierre Brochard, Stéphane Schilt, Thomas Südmeyer
“Ultra-low Noise Microwave Generation based on a Free-Running Optical Frequency Comb”
International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics (2018), Toulouse, France
2018 – Norbert Modsching “Best Student Paper Award in the Area Optical Combs”
Norbert Modsching, Clément Paradis, Pierre Brochard, Nayara Jornod, Kutan Gürel, Christian Kränkel, Stéphane Schilt, Valentin J. Wittwer, Thomas Südmeyer
“Frequency Comb Stabilization of a 4 W, 50-fs Thin-Disk Laser Oscillator”
32nd European Frequency and Time Forum (2018), Torino, Italy, poster #7078
2018 - Pierre Brochard “Best Student Paper Award” (finalist)
Pierre Brochard, Stéphane Schilt, Thomas Südmeyer
“Optical-to-RF Frequency Division for Ultra-low Noise Microwave Generation Using a Transfer Oscillator Method”
32nd European Frequency and Time Forum (2018), Torino, Italy, #oral B1L-C-2
2017 – Norbert Modsching “Outstanding Student Poster Presentation Award”
Norbert Modsching, Clément Paradis, Maxim Gaponenko, François Labaye, Florian Emaury, Andreas Diebold, Ivan Graumann, Bastian Deppe, Christian Kränkel, Valentin J. Wittwer, Thomas Südmeyer
“Towards Few-Cycle Ultrafast Thin-Disk Lasers”
Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference (2017), Nagoya, Japan, poster #JM5A.41
2017 – Thomas Südmeyer was elected as “OSA Fellow Member”
2016 – Kutan Gürel “Outstanding Student Presentation Award”
Kutan Gürel, Valentin J. Wittwer, Sargis Hakobyan, Stéphane Schilt, Thomas Südmeyer
“First Detection and Stabilization of the Carrier Envelope Offset Frequency of a Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Ti:Sapphire Laser”
Advanced Solid State Lasers Conference (2016), Boston, United States, oral #ATu1A.1
2016 – Pierre Brochard “Best Student Paper Award” (finalist)
Pierre Brochard, Nayara Jornod, Valentin J. Wittwer, Stéphane Schilt, Dominik Waldburger, Sandro M. Link, Cesare G. E. Alfieri, Matthias Golling, Laurent Devenoges, Jacques Morel, Ursula Keller, Thomas Südmeyer
“Carrier-envelope offset characterization in a semiconductor mode-locked laser without f-to-2f interferometry”
30th European Frequency and Time Forum (2016), York, UK, oral #1070
