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 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, biomolecular spectroscopy, plasmonics, and development of analytical methods.

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, Head of Department

Pasi Myllyperkiö

Staff Scientist

Research groups

Tutkimusryhmä

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.
Tutkimusryhmä

Hybrid Quantum Technologies in Silicon

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

Spectroscopy of Biomolecules

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

NanoCarbon Laboratory

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

Optical spectroscopy and laser modification of Nanomaterials

Optical spectrosocpy and optical modification of nanomaterials
Tutkimusryhmä

Computational Biomolecular Chemistry Group

Gerrit Groenhof research group: Computational Biomolecular Chemistry

Julkaisut

Julkaisu
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
Julkaisu
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