Optical components on optical table.

Laser Laboratory

Laser processes are efficient methods that comply with sustainable development and that are used for several tasks.

The Laser Laboratory of the Nanoscience Center (Laserlab-NSC) is a shared facility housed on the NSC. In Finland, Laserlab-NSC has a unique profile that combines laser spectroscopy with nanoscience. Laser laboratory was originally founded by Professor Emeritus Jouko Korppi-Tommola. Currently, seven groups from Departments of Chemistry, Physics, and Biological and Environmental Science use the facility in their research. The Head of the Laboratory is Professor Mika Pettersson and the Laboratory Manager is Dr. Pasi Myllyperkiö. The Head of the laboratory, five additional group leaders and the Laboratory Manager are members of the board which coordinates activities of the Laserlab-NSC. The laboratory is equipped with three femtosecond laser systems, near field optical microscopy and with more than ten other spectroscopic setups enabling various experiments in time- and frequency domains and also imaging. Laserlab-NSC is focusing on vibrational spectroscopy – infrared and Raman, nonlinear spectroscopy and imaging, strong light-matter coupling, biomolecular spectroscopy, plasmonics, and development of analytical methods. Laserlab-NSCis part of the Quantitative Chemically-Specific Imaging Infrastructure for Material and Life Sciences -network - qSCI.

Laser Lab
Organization of the Laser Laboratorio in the Nanoscience Center.

Member of Laserlab-Europe

Laser Lab Europe
Laserlab-Europe is the Integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures.

Laserlab-NSC is a member of Laserlab-Europe. Laserlab-Europe has functioned for 12 years and it is a network of 38 laser laboratories in 16 EU countries. Laserlab-Europe is an EU funded Consortium of European Laser Research Infrastructures, where new developments in laser research take place in a flexible and co-ordinated fashion beyond the potential of a national scale. 

Using our facilities

We offer services to academia and industry with our state-of-the-art equipped laboratories, where well-trained personnel use strong scientific knowledge. Laserlab-NSC offers unique research opportunities to scientists and access is provided to world-class laser research facilities and a large variety of inter-disciplinary research. 

Laser laboratory
Wide range of services are offered, from contract-based research with companies to scientific collaboration.

Contact persons

Mika Pettersson
Professor
Pasi Myllyperkiö
Staff Scientist

Research groups

Research group

Molecular electronics and plasmonics

Group studies nanoelectronics, -plasmonics, -photonics, and polaritonics; concentrating on phenomena in quantum level involving molecules as active components or building blocks.
Research group

Hybrid Quantum Technologies in Silicon

We study silicon based quantum hybrid systems, concentrating on the interaction between spins, phonons and photons.
Research group

Spectroscopy of Biomolecules

Janne Ihalainen research group studies the functions and actions of biological photosensors and photosynthetic systems
Research group

NanoCarbon Laboratory

Materials science group focusing on synthesis, device fabrication and characterisation of carbon based nano materials.
Research group

Optical spectroscopy and laser modification of Nanomaterials

Optical spectrosocpy and optical modification of nanomaterials
Research group

Computational Biomolecular Chemistry Group

Gerrit Groenhof research group: Computational Biomolecular Chemistry

Publications

Publication
2016

Femtosecond structural dynamics drives the trans/cis isomerization in photoactive yellow protein

Science.
Pande, Kanupriya
Hutchison, Christopher D. M.
Groenhof, Gerrit
Aquila, Andy
Robinson, Josef S.
Tenboer, Jason
Basu, Shibom
Boutet, Sébastien
DePonte, Daniel P.
Liang, Mengning
White, Thomas A.
Zatsepin, Nadia A.
Yefanov, Oleksandr
Morozov, Dmitry
Oberthuer, Dominik
Gati, Cornelius
Subramanian, Ganesh
James, Daniel
Zhao, Yun
Koralek, Jake
Brayshaw, Jennifer
Kupitz, Christopher
Conrad, Chelsie
Roy-Chowdhury, Shatabdi
Coe, Jesse D.
Metz, Markus
Xavier, Paulraj Lourdu
Grant, Thomas D.
Koglin, Jason E.
Ketawala, Gihan
Fromme, Raimund
Šrajer, Vukica
Henning, Robert
Spence, John C. H.
Ourmazd, Abbas
Schwander, Peter
Weierstall, Uwe
Frank, Matthias
Fromme, Petra
Barty, Anton
Chapman, Henry N.
Moffat, Keith
van Thor, Jasper J.
Schmidt, Marius
Publication
2016

Light-induced structural changes in a monomeric bacteriophytochrome

Structural Dynamics.
Takala, Heikki
Niebling, Stephan
Berntsson, Oskar
Björling, Alexander
Lehtivuori, Heli
Häkkänen, Heikki
Panman, Matthijs
Gustavsson, Emil
Hoernke, Maria
Newby, Gemma
Zontone, Federico
Wulff, Michael
Menzel, Andreas
Ihalainen, Janne
Westenhoff, Sebastian
Publication
2016

Structural photoactivation of a full-length bacterial phytochrome

Science Advances.
Björling, Alexander
Berntsson, Oskar
Lehtivuori, Heli
Takala, Heikki
Hughes, Ashley J.
Panman, Matthijs
Hoernke, Maria
Niebling, Stephan
Henry, Léocadie
Henning, Robert
Kosheleva, Irina
Chukharev, Vladimir
Tkachenko, Nikolai V.
Menzel, Andreas
Newby, Gemma
Khakhulin, Dmitry
Wulff, Michael
Ihalainen, Janne
Westenhoff, Sebastian
Publication
2016

The room temperature crystal structure of a bacterial phytochrome determined by serial femtosecond crystallography

Scientific Reports.
Edlund, Petra
Takala, Heikki
Claesson, Elin
Henry, Léocadie
Dods, Robert
Lehtivuori, Heli
Panman, Matthijs
Pande, Kanupriya
White, Thomas
Nakane, Takanori
Berntsson, Oskar
Gustavsson, Emil
Båth, Petra
Modi, Vaibhav
Roy-Chowdhury, Shatabdi
Zook, James
Berntsen, Peter
Pandey, Suraj
Poudyal, Ishwor
Tenboer, Jason
Kupitz, Christopher
Barty, Anton
Fromme, Petra
Koralek, Jake D.
Tanaka, Tomoyuki
Spence, John
Liang, Mengning
Hunter, Mark S.
Boutet, Sebastien
Nango, Eriko
Moffat, Keith
Groenhof, Gerrit
Ihalainen, Janne
Stojković, Emina A.
Schmidt, Marius
Westenhoff, Sebastian