Lund Laser Centre, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Access to the LLC spectroscopic and high-intensity laser facilities.

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Contact:	Sune Svanberg Email
	Claes-Göran Wahlström Email

LLC is the largest unit in the Nordic countries within the field of lasers, optics and spectroscopy. Research is performed in basic atomic, molecular and chemical physics and includes applications to the energy, environmental, medical and information technology fields. LLC is characterized by its interdisciplinary nature, fostering a strong exchange of ideas, techniques and resources.

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Research is performed in basic atomic, molecular and chemical physics and includes applications to the energy, environmental, medical and information technology fields. These activities include high-power laser/matter interactions, particle acceleration, attoscience, atomic/molecular spectroscopy in the time- and frequency domains, ultrafast spectroscopy of molecules and solids, quantum optics and quantum computing, combustion diagnostics, environmental and biomedical spectroscopy.

The LLC provides access to several separate laser laboratories:

• High-power laser laboratories, including a 10 Hz 35 fs, 40 TW laser and a 1 kHz 5 mJ system, streak cameras for visible/VUV and X-rays, electron and ion time-of-flight spectrometers.
• Atomic and molecular laser spectroscopy laboratories, with tuneable VUV 1 ns laser systems and diagnostics.
• Coherent transient spectroscopy laboratory with photon-echo stations, CW single-mode lasers and cryostats for 4K and 77K optical spectroscopy.
• Femtochemistry laboratories, with high repetition-rate, tunable laser systems and pump/probe stations for ultrafast kinetics and spectroscopic studies. Set up for sub ps time resolved THz spectroscopy.
• Combustion diagnostics laboratories, with a multiple Nd:YAG laser system, tuneable excimer laser, ns OPO, and ps dye and laser systems. Image-intensified, gated optical multi-channel analysers systems. Mobile systems for coherent anti-Stokes Raman (CARS) measurements and for laser-induced fluorescence.
• Mobile laser radar system with Nd:YAG/OPO transmitter and 40 cm receiving telescope for atmospheric mapping (differential absorption), marine and vegetation monitoring (laser-induced fluorescence)
• Biomedical laser laboratories for medical fluorescence diagnostics and photodynamic tumour treatment. Systems for time-resolved scattering media spectroscopy and gas-in-scattering-media studies.