Lasers & Optics (LAS&O)

Picture credit : Yvan Flamant - LAS&O

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