Laser Source System and CPA
Laser Control System
Optical Setup
Laser Engraving Machine
The Vacuum Chamber for Coulomb Explosion Experiment
Hollow Fiber and Chirped Mirror Compressor System
Polyynes Production System
OurÌýresearch in collaboration with students, research associates and other researchers in À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ in Canada and beyond, focuses on understanding the way that intense laser radiation in extremely short femtosecondÌýpulsesÌýinteracts with and modifies matter.
In addition we want to exploit it in order to image molecular processes on the fastest timescales, using the technique ofÌýCoulomb imaging. We can also use itÌýto modify matter in order to generateÌýnano particles and fabricate nano scale structures, as well as to explore new therapeutic possibilities.
The keyÌýÌýto 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, and how we can harness it to image matter and create matter with new useful properties.