Laserlab
Sweden Day 7. October 2022 Laserlab Sweden Day will take place after the Optics and
Photonics in Sweden (OPS-2022) conference in Umeå. All LLS nodes around Sweden
will present an overview of their activities and some experiments will be
presented in more detail by PhD students as well as invited experienced
scientist. There will be also visits to the various laboratories in Umeå.
Detailed program is available here:
LaserLab Sweden Day 2022 10 07.pdf
Ph. D Course in experimental laser physics Laserlab-Sweden ran its first PhD course in
experimental laser physics 2019. Ten students, two from each node,
participated and visited the various nodes
for two or three day long periods. In April, they visited Lund and
performed half day long labs in the field of “Laser-Induced Fluorescence
(LIF)” and “Atoms in strong laser fields”. In May, they went to Umeå
and performed laboratory sessions dealing with
issues such as “Temporal characterization of few-cycle laser pulses”
and “Generation of Sidebands by the use of an Electro-Optic Modulator
(EOM)”. In October, the were in Stockholm and Uppsala for a three day
activity addressing concepts such as “Terahertz
Time-Domain Spectroscopy”, “Ultrafast electron microscopy” , and “Time,
energy and momentum resolved study of Graphene band structure”. At the
end of the year, in November, they gathered in Göteborg, performing
laboratory sessions with “Nanosecond transient
absorption and emission”, “Vibrational coupling and vibrational energy
transfer observed with 2D IR spectroscopy”, and “Optical levitation”. At
each visit, the students took the opportunity to get together in common
site-node dinners in which they could meet
and exchange ideas and opinions about the laboratory sessions performed
as well as their situations as PhD students. The course was well
received among the PhD students, since they also got to tie band to
students from different disciples and universities. A similar course was started in 2020. However,
after the first visit in February 2020 to the Stockholm/Uppsala nodes,
the rest of the course was postponed
due to the Covid-19 outbreak.
The course is to be resumed
either in late spring or early fall of 2022 dependent on how the
pandemic develops.
Laszlo Veisz from Laserlab Umeå and
Dag Hanstorp from Laserlab Gothenburg
have together with Mattias Marklund from University of Gothenburg
form a network which has been awarded a prestigious research
environment grant of 18 MSEK from the Swedish Research Council for the
project Relativistic Nanophotonics. The grant was one
of only nine grants awarded in the field of science and technology. The
idea behind this project came up during a meeting with Laserlab Sweden
in Lund in 2018. https://www.realumu.org/projects
