LIDAR Group

- retrieving areosol size distribution with multiwavelength LIDAR - theory and experiment
- improving LIDAR techniques for atmosphere probing

Plasma research

- collisions of electrons with excited alkali atoms

Laser Spectroscopy of Diatomic Molecules

- polarisation labeling spectroscopy of alkali dimers

Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy

- developement of broadband CRDS
- investigation of chemical reaction kinetics using CRDS technique
- development of trace matter detection techniques

Ultrafast Phenomena Lab

- development of femtosecond lasers and amplifiers
- novel diagnostic techniques of ultrashort pulses
- nonlinear propagation for tightly focused femtosecond pulses in dispersive media
- transient absorption spectroscopy of organic molecules
- ultrafast dynamics of short-range order in liquids
- time-domain terahertz spectroscopy
- ultrafast dynamics of neutral and charged excitons (in cooperation with Solid State Division)