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

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
2023

Optical control of ultrafast structural dynamics in a fluorescent protein

Nature Chemistry.
Hutchison, Christopher D. M.
Baxter, James M.
Fitzpatrick, Ann
Dorlhiac, Gabriel
Fadini, Alisia
Perrett, Samuel
Maghlaoui, Karim
Lefèvre, Salomé Bodet
Cordon-Preciado, Violeta
Ferreira, Josie L.
Chukhutsina, Volha U.
Garratt, Douglas
Barnard, Jonathan
Galinis, Gediminas
Glencross, Flo
Morgan, Rhodri M.
Stockton, Sian
Taylor, Ben
Yuan, Letong
Romei, Matthew G.
Lin, Chi-Yun
Marangos, Jon P.
Schmidt, Marius
Chatrchyan, Viktoria
Buckup, Tiago
Morozov, Dmitry
Park, Jaehyun
Park, Sehan
Eom, Intae
Kim, Minseok
Jang, Dogeun
Choi, Hyeongi
Hyun, HyoJung
Park, Gisu
Nango, Eriko
Tanaka, Rie
Owada, Shigeki
Tono, Kensuke
DePonte, Daniel P.
Carbajo, Sergio
Seaberg, Matt
Aquila, Andrew
Boutet, Sebastien
Barty, Anton
Iwata, So
Boxer, Steven G.
Groenhof, Gerrit
van Thor, Jasper J.
Julkaisu
2023

Serial Femtosecond Crystallography Reveals that Photoactivation in a Fluorescent Protein Proceeds via the Hula Twist Mechanism

Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Fadini, Alisia
Hutchison, Christopher D. M.
Morozov, Dmitry
Chang, Jeffrey
Maghlaoui, Karim
Perrett, Samuel
Luo, Fangjia
Kho, Jeslyn C. X.
Romei, Matthew G.
Morgan, R. Marc L.
Orr, Christian M.
Cordon-Preciado, Violeta
Fujiwara, Takaaki
Nuemket, Nipawan
Tosha, Takehiko
Tanaka, Rie
Owada, Shigeki
Tono, Kensuke
Iwata, So
Boxer, Steven G.
Groenhof, Gerrit
Nango, Eriko
van Thor, Jasper J.