Ultrastable single-cycle mid-infrared laser sources

The Polish Returns project will enable Maciej Kowalczyk to set up a new research laboratory at Wroclaw University of Science and Technology. We will focus on developing laser sources that generate highly stable pulses of light with a length of a single electric field oscillation in the mid-infrared spectral range (2 – 20 µm). We will complement existing research into the physics of noise in lasers based on active media doped with chromium ions. Additional work on the development of new techniques to stabilise these laser sources will enable a significant improvement in their stability over the current state of research. The research will lead to advances in laser physics and contribute to fields such as precision spectroscopy or the study of fundamental interactions of light with matter. The new-generation lasers will be used for spectroscopic examination of human blood for cancer detection in collaboration with Ludwig and Maximilian University in Munich and the Hungarian Center for Molecular Fingerprinting.

The team currently includes: Maciej Kowalczyk, dr. Dorota Tomaszewska-Rolla and Karolina Suliga.

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