Access Facilities - CUSBO

Activities:

Ultrashort light pulse generation and application to the study of ultrafast phenomena in the matter: it comprises the field of ultrashort pulse generation and study of ultrafast phenomena. The most recent research topics refers to coherent XUV radiation by high order harmonic generation, attosecond science, broad-band optical  parametric amplifiers, device fabrication and materials, ultrafast spectroscopy and applications, femtosecond nano-optics

Solid state lasers and photonic devices: it aims to development of solid-state lasers and integrated photonic devices for application to environmental monitoring, telecommunications and coherent control of light. In particular the topics addressed are waveguide and photonic devices, frequency-stabilized solid-state lasers for metrology and environmental monitoring, femtosecond laser micromachining of optical materials and periodic optical structures for coherent control of light;

it is focussed on the applications of innovative photonic systems to interdisciplinary fields on the basis of the diagnostic potentialities offered by fluorescence lifetime imaging and spectroscopy and by time domain diffuse optical imaging and spectroscopy. These methodologies have been utilized in clinical applications for skin tumor imaging, optical mammography and brain functional imaging. Applications for internal fruit quality evaluations and monitoring of frescos and marble statues are also under current investigation

Research opportunities within the Laserlab access activity:

CUSBO addresses a broad audience of users covering different research fields The main working stations provided by the infrastructure are:

• Ti:Sa laser systems: (i) 25 fs pulses, 0.8-1.5 mJ at 1 kHz; (ii) 25 fs, 6 mJ at 1 kHz; (iii) 25 fs, 2 mJ  at 10 kHz
• 2 TW Ti:Sa laser system 45 fs, 100 mJ at 10 Hz
• High energy few optical cycle pulses: 800 nm, 6 fs, 0.5 mJ at 1 kHz
• Ultra-broadband parametric amplifiers: few cycle pulses tunable in the visible (500-700 nm) and near-infrared (1200-1500 nm)
• Extreme UV and soft x ray coherent light sources (sub-10 fs duration) based on high order harmonic generation
• Trains and isolated attosecond pulses (130 as) with XUV beam lines for attosecond spectroscopy
• Fully automated, continuously tunable VIS to NIR ps sources at high repetition rate (80 MHz)
• Time -resolved spatial, spectral- and temporal- mapping of the optical properties in biological tissues
• ps fluorescence lifetime imaging of biological media
• Femtosecond laser micro -machining set-up