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VULRC is a multi-disciplinary facility within the field of lasers, optics, biomedical sciences. Main research areas are diode-pumped ultrashort pulse lasers, UV-VIS-IR continuously tunable parametric light amplifiers and generators, chirped pulse amplification, time-resolved ultrafast spectroscopy, non-linear optics, high-intensity laser-matter interactions, biophotonics.

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Activities:

Quantum Electronics (High intensity fields & nonlinear optics):

• OPCPA testing, Femtosecond filamentation in solids and liquids
• Spatio-temporal characterization of light wave packets
• Generation of nondiffracting and nondispersing light pulses and their applications in nonlinear optics
• Femtosecond laser-induced damage
• Ultrashort terahertz-pulse generation from fs pulse induced gas plasma
• Multiphoton excitation in transparent materials by tunable fs pulses
• Nonlinear optical processes in gaseous media based on third-, fifth- and higher-order optical susceptibilities
• Study of CEP sensitive phenomena by use of stable phase few cycle pulses)
  

 Spectroscopy:

• Ultrafast pump and probe spectroscopy in wide spectral range
• Ultrafast terahertz time domain spectroscopy
• LIBS using fs pulses

• Fabrication of 3D micro/nanostructures by multi-photon polymerization with fs pulses tunable in wide spectral range
• Micromachining of 2.5D structures by ablation with high reprate fs pulses
• Modification and diffraction patterns creation in transparent materials by fs high reprate pulses
• Standartized damage threshold measurements
  

VULRC facilities:

• Ti:Sa laser system (2,5 mJ, 100 fs) with three channel OPA providing pulses as short as15 fs and continuously tuneable in 240-18000nm
• Nd:glass laser systems (200fs/1 ps) with two channel OPA tunable in 210-18000 nm
• Nanosecond Nd:YAG laser system (0,75 J) with OPA tunable in 420-2200 nm
• Yb:KGW laser system (up to 1 mJ, 300 fs, 1-200 kHz) with positioning system “Aerotech” (accuracy: 10 nm; translation speed up to 300 mm/s)