Selected Publications

- Light and gravitation:

• D. Rätzel, M. Wilkens, R. Menzel
  "The effect of entanglement in gravitational photon-photon scattering"
  EPL,115 (2016) 51002


• D. Rätzel, M. Wilkens, R. Menzel
  "Gravitational properties of light - the gravitational field of a laser pulse"
  New J. Phys. 18 (2016) 023009

- Quantum optics:

• Ralf Menzel, Robert Marx, Dirk Puhlmann, Axel Heuer, and Wolfgang P. Schleich
  "The Photon: the role of its mode function in analyzing commplementarity"
  JOSA B Vol. 36 Issue6 pp. 1668-1675 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.36.001668


• Ralf Menzel, Axel Heuer and Peter W. Milonni
  "Entanglement, Complementarity, and Vacuum Fields in Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion"
  Atoms 2019, 7, 27; doi10.3390/atoms7010027


• Dennis Rätzel, Martin Wilkens and Ralf Menzel
  "The effect of polarization entanglement in photon-photon scattering"
  Physical Review A 95, 012101 (2017)


• R. Menzel, D. Puhlmann, and A.Heuer
  "Complementarity in single photon interference - the role of mode functions and vacuum fields"
  arXiv:1512.05930v1 [quant-ph] 18 Dec 2015


• A. Heuer, G. Pieplow, and R. Menzel
  "Phase-selective quantum eraser"
  Phys. Rev. A 92 (2015) 013803


• A. Heuer, R. Menzel, and P. W. Milonni
  "Complementarity in biphoton generation with stimulated or induced coherence"
  Phys. Rev. A 92 (2015) 033834


• D. Puhlmann, C. Henkel, A. Heuer, G. Pieplow and R. Menzel
  "Transverse distinguishability of entangled photons with arbitrarily shaped spatial near- and far-field distributions"
  JOSA B 32 (2015) 1910


• A. Heuer, R. Menzel, and P.W. Milonni
  "Induced Coherence, Vacuum Fields, and Complementarity in Biphoton Generation"
  Phys. Rev Lett. 114 (2015) 053601


• A. Heuer, S. Raabe, and R. Menzel
  "Phase memory across two single-photon interferometers including wavelength conversion"
  Phys. Rev. A 90 (2014) 045803


• R. Menzel , A. Heuer , D. Puhlmann , K. Dechoum , M. Hillery , M.J.A. Spähn, W.P. Schleich
  "A two-photon double-slit experiment"
  J. of Modern Optics, 60:1 (2013) 86


• R.Menzel, D. Puhlmann, A. Heuer and W. P. Schleich
  "Wave-particle dualism and complementarity unraveled by a different mode"
  PNAS, Vol. 109, No. 24, 9314-9319 (2012)


• A.Jechow, M. Seefeldt, H. Kurzke, A. Heuer and R. Menzel
  "Enhanced two-photon excited fluorescence from imaging agents by utilizing thermal light"
  Nature Photonics 7, 973-976 (2013)

- Optical phase conjugation:

• R. Elsner, R. Ullmann, A. Heuer, R. Menzel and M. Ostermeyer
  "Two-dimensional modeling of transient gain gratings in saturable gain media"
  Optics Express, Vol. 20 No. 7, (2012)


• R. Menzel and H. J. Eichler
  "Temporal and spatial reflectivity of focused beams in stimulated Brillouin scattering for phase conjugation"
  Physical Review A, Vol. 46, No. 11 (1992)


• A.Heuer and R. Menzel
  "Phase-cojugating stimulated Brillouin scattering mirror for low powers and reflectivities above 90% in an internally tapered optical fiber"
  Optics Letters, Vol. 23, No. 11 (1998)

- Diode Lasers – Beam quality:

• M. Niebuhr, C. Zink, A. Jechow, A. Heuer, L. B. Glebov and R. Menzel
  "Mode stabilization of a laterally structured broad area diode laser using an external volume Bragg grating"
  Opt. Express 23 (2015) 12394


• C. Zink, N. Werner, A. Jechow, A. Heuer and R. Menzel
  "Multi-Wavelength Operation of a Single Broad Area Diode Laser by Spectral Beam Combining"
  IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 26, No. 3 (2014)


• V. Raab and R. Menzel
  "External resonator design for high-power laser diodes that yields 400 mW of TEM00 power"
  Optics Letters, Vol. 27, No. 3 (2002)

- Solid states Lasers- Beam quality:

• M. Ostermeyer, G. Klemz, P. Kubina and R. Menzel
  "Quasi-continuous-wave birefringence-compensated single- and double-rod Nd: YAG lasers"
  Applied Optics, Vol. 41, No. 36 (2002)


• M. Ostermeyer and R. Menzel
  "Single rod efficient Nd: YAG and Nd: YALO lasers with average output power of 46 and 47 W
  in diffraction limited beams with M2 <1.2 and 100 W with M2<3.7"
  Elsevier, Optics Communications 160, 251-254 (1999)


• R. Menzel, M. Ostermeyer
  "Fundamental mode determination for guaranteeing diffraction limited beam quality of lasers with high output powers"
  Opt. Communications 149 (1998) 321

- Other light sources:

• Jechow, A. Heuer, R. Menzel
  "High brightness, tunable biphoton source at 976 nm for quantum spectroscopy"
  Optics Express 16 (2008) 13439-13449


• M. Seefeldt, A. Heuer and R. Menzely
  "Compact white-light source with an average output power of 2.4 W and 900 nm spectral bandwidth"
  Elservier, Optics Communications, 216, 199-202 (2003)

- Nonlinear spectroscopy-Organic matter:

• T. Schwarze, A. Garz, K.Teuchner, R. Menzel, H.-J. Holdt
  "Two-Photon Probes for Metal Ions Based on Phenylaza[18]crown-6 Ethers and 1,2,3-Triazoles as -Linkers"
  ChemPhysChem 15 (2014) 2436


• A.Garz, M. Sandmann, M. Rading, S. Ramm, R. Menzel and M. Steup
  "Cell-to-Cell Diversity in a Synchronized Chlamydomonas Culture As Revealed by Single-Cell Analyses"
  Biophysical Journal, Vol. 103, 1078-1086, (09/2012)


• R. Menzel and K.H. Naumann
  "Towards an Theroretical Description of UV-Vis Absorption Bands of Organic Molecules"
  Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 95 (1991) 834-837


• R. Menzel and W. Rapp
  "Excited Singlet- and Triplet-Absorptions of Pentaphene"
  Chemical Physics 89, p. 445-455 (1984)


• R. Menzel and D. Leupold
  "Nonlinear Absorptions of Cryptocyanine"
  Chemical Physics Letters, Volume 65, No. 1, (1979


• R. Menzel and W. Kessler
  "Band Shape Analysis of the Absorption Bands of four Tripheneylmethane dyes using a self starting Routine"
  Elservier, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 39, 279-298 (1988)

- Books:

• R. Menzel: "Photonics, Linear and nonlinear interactions of laser light and matter"
  2nd edition (1024 pages, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York 2007)


• A. Heuer, R. Menzel: "Principles of Phase Conjugating Brillouin Mirrors2"
  Chapter 2 in "Phase Conjugate Laser Optics", by Arnaud Brignon, Jean-Pierre Huignard,
  (John Wiley & Sons, pages 19-62, 2004)


• M. Ostermeyer, R. Menzel: "Laser Resonators with Brillouin Mirrors"
  Chapter 3 in "Phase Conjugate Laser Optics", by Arnaud Brignon, Jean-Pierre Huignard,
  (John Wiley & Sons, pages 63-108, 2004)


• R. Menzel: "Metrological Applications"
  in "Femtosecond Technology for Technical and Medical Applications"
  (Topics in Applied Physics 96, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, pages 257-283, 2004)