The laser laboratory is equipped with a special laser for generation of ultrashort femtosecond pulses, i.e. laser beams with a duration of a quadrillionth of a second (10-15 s). Ultrashort femtosecond pulses are shorter in terms of their duration than the length of a huge number of elementary physical, chemical, and biological processes on a molecular level. Using these ultrashort pulses, the laboratory team is enabled to observe the dynamics of the above-mentioned processes in time. Another advantage is the aggregated performance per pulse, which exceeds the performance of a nuclear power plant by several orders of magnitude despite having little energy per pulse (in mJ). In the interaction of a pulse with studied matter, the research team will be able to generate special states of matter and explore the processes, during which light reacts with matter in a different manner than we are used to. Experiments will be based on pump-probe ellipsometry, magnetooptics, terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, and two-photon polymerization 3D printing.
Ultrashort laser pulse laboratory
