Labs

Labs

  • Pulsed laser ablation (PLA) and deposition (PLD) and PLA in liquid environment (PLAL).
  • Laser Induced Periodic Surface Structuring (LIPSS).
  • Optical Spectroscopies: Optical Emission Spectroscopy (OES), Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF), Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Optical time-of-flight, multiphoton spectroscopies, pump and probe.
  • Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (TOF-MS).
  • Harmonic generation in ablation plumes.
  • Generation of coherent vacuum ultraviolet radiation by nonlinear frequency mixing.
  • Laser cleaning.
  • Nonlinear optical microscopy with femtosecond laser pulses.

LASER SOURCES

  • Excimer lasers (F2 157 nm, ArF 193 nm, KrF 248 nm, XeCl 308 nm)
  • Q-switched Nd:YAG lasers emitting at the fundamental wavelength (1064 nm) and up to the 5th harmonic (213 nm) with pulses of nanosecond duration and repetition rate of up to 10 Hz
  • Narrow bandwidth tunable dye lasers (from blue to red) pumped with the 3rd harmonic of a Nd:YAG laser
  • CW CO2 tunable laser (9-11 μm) up to 20 W
  • Systems for generation of tunable UV and vacuum UV coherent radiation 
  • Mode-locked Ti:Sapphire laser oscillator (800 nm, 70, 80 MHz)