Research

NIO - Spatial solitons and soliton waveguide arrays in Lithium Niobate (LiNbO₃ written with very low laser power with applications in ultrafast parallel interconnections and sensor arrays


Recording of a Soliton Waveguide (Evolution of output transversal profile)

Arrays of soliton waveguides.

NIO - Nonlinear nanophotonics for information technologies at molecular level: ultrafast NLO in quantum dots and in metamaterials with sub-wavelength structures (in visible and IR - telecom bands)

Femtosecond fiber lasers (1030 nm and 1550 nm with SHG and supercontinuum generation in IR), Z-scan setups and wave-mixing setups

NIO - Nonlinear nanophotonics in UV nano-patterning (UV interferometric lithography)

Nd:YAG nanosecond laser with fundamental Gaussian beam of 150 mJ (1064 nm), SHG (100 mJ, 532 nm) and THG (20 mJ, 355 nm) and coherence length of 0.5 m; highly stable setups)

NIO - Nonlinear nanophotonics for information technologies at molecular level: Nano-imaging metamaterials, sub-wavelength structures, plasmonic structures and processes with AFM and SNOM

* Atomic Force Microscope/Scanning Near-field Optical Microscope with resolution of 10 nm;
* Confocal microscope with resolution of 300 nm.
* Couplers to pico- and femto-lasers for study of nonlinear optical processes