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.
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.
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.
