Optics Division

Division info:

There are four laboratories in Optics Division:

Laboratory of Ultrafast Processes (leaded by prof. Czesław Radzewicz) is equipped with laser systems generating the light pulses which duration time is about tens of femtoseconds and which power reaches 10 GW. The pulses are used for investigation of ultra-fast processes occurring in molecules as well as for nonlinear processes observation. New sources of the ultra-short light pulses are constructed. Novel methods of their diagnostics are elaborated.

In Lidar Laboratory (leaded by prof. Tadeusz Stacewicz) new laser methods of remote investigation of atmospheric properties (especially the techniques of determination of aerosol particle size distribution) are elaborated.

In the Spectroscopy of Atomic Interaction Group (leaded by prof. Pawel Kowalczyk) electronic structure of diatomic molecules (as Na2, NaLi, KLi) is We develop both experimental techniques (polarisation labelling spectroscopy technique) and methods of description of molecular states (inverted perturbative approach).

In Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory (leaded by prof. Tadeusz Stacewicz) the investigation on low temperature plasma and the physics of resonance interaction of laser light with atoms and molecules is performed. Recently the work is focused on the application of Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy .