VULRC Laser Research Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Access to ultra-fast lasers, nonlinear optics, biophotonics facilities.

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Contact: Algis Petras Piskarskas Email

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:
• OPCPA modelling and testing.
• Ultrafast pump and probe spectroscopy.
• Standartized measurements of laser induced damage.
• Shaping and characterization of beams with topological charge and their applications.
• Generation of nondiffracting and nondispersing light pulses.
• Numerical simulations of 3D parametric interactions in nonlinear medium.


Research opportunities within the Laserlab access activity:

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