Our research in collaboration with students, research associates and other researchers in Waterloo in Canada and beyond, focuses on understanding the way that intense laser radiation in extremely short, femtosecond, pulses (one femtosecond is one thousand million millionth of a second or 10 -15s) interacts with and modifies matter.
The key to understanding how these laser pulses have such a dramatic effect on matter is to consider the massive electric field which they create for a short time. This field is bigger than the one which binds electrons to an atom and so the interaction can rip matter apart. We are interested in understanding how this process happens.
In addition we want to exploit it in order to image molecular processes on the fastest timescales, using the technique of Coulomb imaging. We can also use it to modify matter in order to generate nano particles and fabricate nano scale structures, as well as to explore new therapeutic possibilities.
Laser source system & CPA
Laser control system
Laser control station
Laser engraving machine
The vacuum chamber for coulomb explosion experiment.
The vacuum chamber for coulomb explosion experiment.
Hollow Fibre and Chirped Mirror Compressor System
Polyynes production system
