Lasers & Optics (LAS&O)
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Technical and scientific expertise
- Advice on:
- purchasing lasers and optics
- all technical questions concerning optics and lasers
- instrumentation in general
- Assistance in the construction of prototypes and the realisation of optical devices (interferometers, deflectometers, electro-optical sampling, microscopy, etc.)
- Optics training
- Optical device calibration
- Support in using optical equipment
- Small optical equipment loan
Main equipment
- Continuous and pulsed lasers (IR, VIS, UV)
- Optical components: cameras, polarisers, mirrors, lenses, microscopes, etc.
- Detectors: photodiodes, CCD cameras, etc.
- High-resolution infrared and visible spectrometers
Get an overview of the platform’s facilities via a virtual tour.
Applications
- Measurement of spectral signatures at high resolution (100 MHz) and at different temperatures (10K-300K)
- Metrology: distance, time and frequency measurements
- Distance measurement (gravitational waves, interferometry)
- Detection of pollutants (air quality)
- Determination of aerosol size and trajectory
- Measurement of molecular spectral signatures
Services available to
- UCLouvain students and researchers
- Non-UCLouvain parties