Lund Laser Centre Laboratories

The Lund Laser Centre is a partner in Laserlab Europe, and member of Laserlab Sweden.

The Lund Laser Centre (LLC) is an organization for interdisciplinary research and collaboration in the fields of optics, spectroscopy and lasers, gathering around 300 scientists from LTH, the Faculty of Science, the faculty of Medicine and the MAX IV Laboratory. 

The main users of the facilities in LLC Laboratories are the local research groups that operate, maintain and continuously improve the laser infrastructure and the experimental setups for use in their own research. This mode of operation does not only provide excellent opportunities for research at Lund University, but also ensures that the experimental capabilities that are offered to external users keep up with the state-of-the-art.

The facilities in LLC Laboratories are open to external access through the network Laserlab Europe, of which LLC is a member since its formation in 2003. Laserlab Europe is an Integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures, a consortium gathering 48 laser infrastructures from 22 countries. The laboratories in the network offer access to their facilities for research teams from Europe and beyond, kindly supported by EC funding, through the transnational access program. This means that any researcher, within or outside the network, within or outside the EU, can apply for beamtime at LLC Laboratories through the Laserlab Europe network, and get the user fees as well as the travel and accommodation covered.

LLC is also a founding member of Laserlab Sweden, a network including the major laser research infrastructures in Sweden, from Umeå in the north, through Uppsala, Stockholm and Gothenburg, down to Lund in the south. Laserlab Sweden was formed to promote efficient use of existing laser research infrastructures in Sweden for science and innovation, and to coordinate their future development. Through the joint webpage the nodes of the network present their infrastructure, opening up for national users.

For industrial users, LLC Laboratories are open for access through LTH Open Door.

LLC Laboratories has a distributed infrastructure including approximately 35 advanced researchlaboratories covering a large number of research fields, enabling LLC to offerits users, both internal and external, the possibility to conduct laser-basedresearch on a wide variety of topics ranging from fundamental research anddevelopment of advanced laser technology, through medical applications anddigitalization, to laser applications addressing the challenges of the climate,environment and the energy transition.

Major facilites at the LLC Laboratories:

Biophotonics Laboratories
The Lund University Medical Laser Collaboration (LUMLAC) is an umbrella organization forsupporting interdisciplinary work regarding basic techniques development andclinical applications in the internationally strongly expanding field ofbiophotonics. Examples of activities include early detection of malignantdisease using reflectance or fluorescence spectroscopy and imaging, andphotodynamic therapy of superficial as well as deep-lying tumors. Newer aspectsinclude the use of gas in scattering media absorption spectroscopy (GASMAS) asa versatile tool that even might contribute in the urgent quest to fightantibiotic resistance. Further, novel aspects of photoacoustic imaging, andother laser-based methods, are being developed and implemented for variousclinical applications including surgical guidance and non-invasive diagnostics.New techniques based on ultrasound optical tomography (UOT) utilizingultra-narrowband (slow-light) filters are developed. Many projects havecollaborations with computational science for health and environment (COSHE).

Chemical Physics Laboratories
Research at Chemical Physics brings together advanced femtosecond spectroscopy and microscopy with materials science to explore light-matter interactions, energy and charge carrier transfer across molecular and solid-state nanoscale systems.
Our work spans from fundamental photophysics and photochemistry studies to design of advanced nanomaterials aspiring to understand and refine processes in optoelectronics, sustainable energy, and quantum technology applications.

Enoch Thulin Laboratory
The Enoch Thulin Laboratory comprises laboratories for development and application ofadvanced laser-based techniques, for studies ranging from fundamental physicsto various applications for a sustainable future. Laser-based diagnostics aredeveloped towards understanding conversion of carbon-neutral and carbon-freefuels. These tools are also developed for diagnostics to understand phenomenain a variety of research areas such as catalysis, spray formation, pollutantformation, nanomaterials, entomology, molecular dynamics, battery thermalrunaway, medical applications, plasma processes, remote sensing, andatmospheric aerosol processes.

Lund High-Power Laser Facility
The Lund High Power laser facility, founded in 1992, is one of the leading facilities inEurope for high-intensity laser-matter interactions, attosecond science andshort-wavelength laser spectroscopy.

Quantum Information Laboratories
The Quantum Information Group at the Atomic Physics Division, Physics Department, Lund University, works with quantum information and quantum optics using crystals doped with rare-earth ions. The group was established in the year 2000 as we realized that, because of their extraordinary long optical coherence times, rare-earth ion doped crystals are exceptionally well suited as quantum hardware. 

Physical access. The LLC Laboratories provides extensive technical and scientific support to its external users, but the users remain in charge of their own experiments. The users normally never operate the lasers directly, but are provided with the laser beam to their experiments. The LLC also provides appropriate laser safety instructions and training to all users.

All data is generated and stored locally. When external users do experiments at the LLC Laboratories, access to the recorded data is provided after the beamtime.

LLC Laboratories is coordinated by the director of LLC, while the individual facilities are managed by the heads of divisions of the respective units.