Photonics & Ultrafast Science: Under the Microscope Podcast Episodes

Over the years, Under the Microscope has hosted conversations with researchers working on light at the nanoscale, from attosecond laser pulses and nanophotonics to light-emitting materials and photonic chips. This page brings together 38 episodes with 20 researchers on Photonics & Ultrafast Science, released between 2020 and 2024.

Ultrafast & attosecond science

• Ultra-Fast Light Pulses & Electron Dynamics with Francesca Calegari
  Prof. Francesca Calegari, University of Hamburg / DESY · 2024
• Filming Electronic Movies in Emergent Phases with Chris W. Nicholson
  Chris W. Nicholson · 2022
• Dancing Atoms and the Stories They Tell with Burak Guzelturk
  Burak Guzelturk · 2021
• Shaking Atomic Lattices with Strong Laser Pulses with Sebastian F. Maehrlein
  Sebastian F. Maehrlein · 2021
• Melting Ice with Very Expensive Lasers with Marjorie Ladd Parada
  Marjorie Ladd Parada · 2021
• Fastest Experiments in the World with Electrons & Lasers with Cornelia Hofmann
  Cornelia Hofmann · 2020

Nanophotonics, plasmonics & metamaterials

• Nanodetectives Revolutionising Next Level Sensors with Steph Gallant
  Steph Gallant · 2022
• A Nanomaterials Patchwork with Andrea Armani
  Andrea Armani · 2021
• Revolutionising Optics with New Materials with Hongyan (May) Mei
  Hongyan (May) Mei · 2021
• Benefits of Noise with Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh Rodriguez
  Said Rahimzadeh-Kalaleh Rodriguez · 2021
• Phase Change Materials-from DVDs to Tunable Photonics with Ann-Katrin Michel
  Ann-Katrin Michel · 2021
• Squeezing Light with Nano antenna ft. Thorsten Feichtner
  Thorsten Feichtner · 2020
• Harmonic Generation with a Nanoscale Guitar String with Michele Celebrano
  Michele Celebrano · 2020
• Dancing Light at Nanoscale with Siva Shakthi
  Siva Shakthi · 2020

Light emission & conversion

• Glowy Things and Why They Glow with Lea Nienhaus
  Lea Nienhaus · 2022
• Nanoscale Energy Transport: The Motion Picture with Ferry Prins
  Ferry Prins · 2021
• Little Lights with Big Ideas ft. Rachel Oliver
  Rachel Oliver · 2020
• Catching Light at Ten to the 9th ft. Poornima Peiris
  Poornima Peiris · 2020

Integrated photonics & laser accelerators

• Plasma & laser based compact particle accelerators ft. Jens Osterhoff
  Jens Osterhoff, Deputy Director, BELLA Center, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · 2024
• Photons on a Chip with Benjamin Eggleton
  Benjamin Eggleton · 2020