Femtosecond Spectroscopy Unit (Keshav Dani)

News & Highlights

Sept. 7: Elaine's paper on pulling apart photoexcited electrons is now online in Science Advances.
July 31: Dr. Elaine Wong received her PhD and will continue in the FSU as a Junior Research Fellow.
July 13: Ricardo joins the FSU as a visiting researcher from Mexico. Welcome to Okinawa!
June 21: Welcome to Stuart, who joins the FSU as a JSPS summer fellow from the University of Cambridge.
June 13: Elaine successfully defended her thesis! Congrats, Elaine!
June 13: Our paper on THz photoconductivity in vdW laminates was accepted for publication in Semicond. Sci. Tech.

Archive of News & Highlights

Research Overview

The ability to manipulate and alter matter with intense light fields on very short timescales has the potential to have a transformative effect on a range of scientific and technological endeavors in the coming decades. With extremely high peak powers delivered in exceedingly brief periods of time, ultrafast pulses of light provide the perfect tools to pursue these ideas. They allow the exploration of nonlinear phenomena across broad regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as the measurements of fast electron dynamics in matter. Starting with the development of a strong and unique suite of ultrafast capabilities from the ground up at OIST, and sharing OIST’s vision to pursue creative, interdisciplinary research, we have pursued three broad areas of study:

Please click on the 'Research' tab to learn more about each area.

You can also learn more about our suite of experimental capabilities in the 'Laboratories' tab, along with brief tutorials of the basic techniques that we use in the 'Experimental Techniques' tab.

Page last updated on Sept. 18, 2018 (CP).