In line with “Strategy 2030+”, European XFEL moves to broaden its scientific scope by providing intense THz and mid-IR radiation in combination with ultrashort X-ray pulses. Consequently, the Lasers Group (LAS) is working on the design and implementation of laser-based THz sources with parameters, defined by the users’ requirements.

The PhD project will be collaboratively hosted by LAS and the Femtosecond X-ray Experiments (FXE) instrument. We aim at developing novel high-field THz and mid-IR light sources, which greatly enhance our ability to address scientific cases in strong-field THz and X-ray science at FXE and other instruments. In particular, the THz-driven control of magnetic solids and the THz-induced molecular orientational ordering in liquids are envisaged as the testbed studies of the developed THz/mid-IR sources at FXE.