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Alfred Leitenstorfer

Alfred Leitenstorfer

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
66
Citations
19919
World Ranking
1388
National Ranking
38

Alfred Leitenstorfer publication distribution in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Engineering and Technology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfred Leitenstorfer sits on this spectrum.

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38 publications 804+

This scientist: 535 publications — 96th percentile

96% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 804 publications or more.

Alfred Leitenstorfer D-index placement in Engineering and Technology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Engineering and Technology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfred Leitenstorfer sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 107+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 107 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - OSA Fellows For pioneering ultrabroadband optical technologies and applying them to study fundamental questions in condensed matter.

Overview

Alfred Leitenstorfer is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their research spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering, with a focus on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, and Biophysics.

Their scientific contributions are reflected in numerous publications, particularly exploring topics such as:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
  • Mechanical and Optical Resonators
  • Terahertz technology and applications
  • Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics

Some prominent recent papers include:

  • "The 2023 terahertz science and technology roadmap," 2023, Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
  • "Soliton molecules in femtosecond fiber lasers: universal binding mechanism and direct electronic control," 2021, Optica
  • "Ultrafast Control of Magnetic Anisotropy by Resonant Excitation of 4f Electrons and Phonons in Sm0.7Er0.3FeO3," 2021, Physical Review Letters
  • "Determination of the electric field and its Hilbert transform in femtosecond electro-optic sampling," 2020, Physical Review A
  • "Tracing attosecond electron emission from a nanometric metal tip," 2023, Nature

Leitenstorfer's work has also been published frequently in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optica
  • Laser & Photonics Review
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • The International Conference on Ultrafast Phenomena (UP) 2022

They have collaborated regularly with several researchers including Philipp Sulzer, A. S. Moskalenko, Denis V. Seletskiy, Ron Tenne, and Hannes Kempf.

In 2013, Alfred Leitenstorfer was named an OSA Fellow for pioneering ultrabroadband optical technologies and applying them to study fundamental questions in condensed matter.

Best Publications

  • Nanoscale imaging magnetometry with diamond spins under ambient conditions

    Gopalakrishnan Balasubramanian;I. Y. Chan;I. Y. Chan;Roman Kolesov;Mohannad Al-Hmoud

  • Coherent terahertz control of antiferromagnetic spin waves

    Tobias Kampfrath;Tobias Kampfrath;Tobias Kampfrath;Alexander Sell;Gregor Klatt;Alexej Pashkin

  • How many-particle interactions develop after ultrafast excitation of an electron–hole plasma

    Rupert Huber;F. Tauser;A. Brodschelm;M. Bichler

  • Sub-cycle switch-on of ultrastrong light–matter interaction

    G. Günter;Aji A. Anappara;Aji A. Anappara;J. Hees;Alexander Sell

  • Detectors and sources for ultrabroadband electro-optic sampling: Experiment and theory

    A. Leitenstorfer;S. Hunsche;J. Shah;M. C. Nuss

  • Active magneto-plasmonics in hybrid metal–ferromagnet structures

    Vasily V. Temnov;Gaspar Armelles;Ulrike Woggon;Dmitry Guzatov

  • Generation and field-resolved detection of femtosecond electromagnetic pulses tunable up to 41 THz

    Rupert Huber;A. Brodschelm;F. Tauser;A. Leitenstorfer

  • Phase-locked generation and field-resolved detection of widely tunable terahertz pulses with amplitudes exceeding 100 MV/cm.

    Alexander Sell;Alfred Leitenstorfer;Rupert Huber

  • Coherent structural dynamics and electronic correlations during an ultrafast insulator-to-metal phase transition in VO2.

    C. Kübler;H. Ehrke;Rupert Huber;R. Lopez;R. Lopez

  • Synthesis of a single cycle of light with compact erbium-doped fibre technology

    Günther Krauss;Sebastian Lohss;Tobias Hanke;Alexander Sell

  • Efficient nonlinear light emission of single gold optical antennas driven by few-cycle near-infrared pulses.

    Tobias Hanke;Günther Krauss;Daniel Träutlein;Barbara Wild

  • Ultrabroadband detection of multi-terahertz field transients with GaSe electro-optic sensors: Approaching the near infrared

    C. Kübler;Rupert Huber;S. Tübel;A. Leitenstorfer

  • Direct sampling of electric-field vacuum fluctuations

    Claudius Riek;Denis Seletskiy;Andrey Moskalenko;Jan Schmidt

  • Femtosecond Charge Transport in Polar Semiconductors

    A. Leitenstorfer;S. Hunsche;J. Shah;M. C. Nuss

  • Amplified femtosecond pulses from an Er:fiber system: Nonlinear pulse shortening and selfreferencing detection of the carrier-envelope phase evolution.

    Florian Tauser;Alfred Leitenstorfer;Wolfgang Zinth

  • Sub-cycle optical phase control of nanotunnelling in the single-electron regime

    Tobias Rybka;Markus Ludwig;Michael F. Schmalz;Vanessa Knittel

  • Mid-infrared difference-frequency generation of ultrashort pulses tunable between 3.2 and 4.8 μm from a compact fiber source

    C. Erny;K. Moutzouris;J. Biegert;D. Kühlke

  • Ultrafast insulator-metal phase transition in VO 2 studied by multiterahertz spectroscopy

    Alexej Pashkin;Carl Kübler;Henri Ehrke;Ricardo Lopez;Ricardo Lopez

  • Nanomechanical control of an optical antenna

    Jörg Merlein;Matthias Kahl;Annika Zuschlag;Alexander Sell

  • Ultrafast transient generation of spin-density-wave order in the normal state of BaFe2As2 driven by coherent lattice vibrations

    K. W. Kim;K. W. Kim;K. W. Kim;Alexej Pashkin;H. Schäfer;M. Beyer

  • Femtosecond high-field transport in compound semiconductors

    A. Leitenstorfer;S. Hunsche;J. Shah;M. C. Nuss

Frequent Co-Authors

Rudolf Bratschitsch
Rudolf Bratschitsch University of Münster
Martin Wolf
Martin Wolf Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society
Douglas J. Paul
Douglas J. Paul University of Glasgow
Gerhard Abstreiter
Gerhard Abstreiter Technical University of Munich
Thomas Elsaesser
Thomas Elsaesser Max Planck Society
Giovanni Isella
Giovanni Isella Polytechnic University of Milan
Stefan Mecking
Stefan Mecking University of Konstanz
Fausto Rossi
Fausto Rossi Polytechnic University of Turin
Werner Wegscheider
Werner Wegscheider Solid State Physics Laboratory
Alessandro Tredicucci
Alessandro Tredicucci University of Pisa

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