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Laser ionization based gas cell developments and laser spectroscopy in the region around 100Sn and the heavy Ac isotopes. KU Leuven

Mark Huyse
Nuclear and Radiation Physics
Recently it has been proved at the Leuven Isotope Separator On Line (LISOL) facility that laser spectroscopy inside a gas cell coupled to a mass separator provides a new way to obtain moments and charge radii of far unstable nuclei of chemical elements that are difficult to produce at standard ISOL facilities. This project aims to improve the methode in its efficiency, resolution and range of elements. Dr. Ferrer is an expert in simulating, ...

Investigating the evolution of nuclear structure beyond N=50 by combined high-resolution laser spectroscopy and decay spectroscopy of radioactive zinc with the CRIS experiment at CERN KU Leuven

Thomas Elias Cocolios
Nuclear and Radiation Physics, Peking University
Our understanding of the structure of the atomic nucleus is built upon corner stones, key isotopes in the nuclear chart, named doubly-magic nuclei, which are predicted to exhibit particular properties. Some of those nuclei are very exotic and radioactive, and therefore difficult to produce and study. For example, the nucleus 78Ni (Z=28, N=50) is so exotic that it cannot be probed directly. In this project we shall use exotic isotopes ...

Laser Spectroscopy of Actinides: Octupole Deformation and Gas-Jet Characterization KU Leuven

Piet Van Duppen
Nuclear and Radiation Physics

Elise Verstraelen her PhD thesis reports on a laser spectroscopy study in the actinide region and covers three main topics. Firstly, the results on in-source resonance-ionization spectroscopy of the neutron-rich actinium isotopes 225-229Ac are detailed. These measurements were performed at the TRIUMF ISAC facility in Vancouver and resulted in new data on the changes in mean-square charge radii and the magnetic dipole moments of ...

A novel laser spectroscopy apparatus for nuclear structure research at ISOL@MYRRHA KU Leuven

Agi Koszorus
Nuclear and Radiation Physics
Understanding the structure of the atomic nucleus requires the measurement of its properties using different probes and techniques. A significant part of this research is performed on short-lived radioactive isotopes, which can only be produced in small quantities in radioactive ion beam laboratories. Laser spectroscopy methods provide information on both the bulk properties of the nucleus and the nucleon-nucleon interactions. A new ...

A laser spectroscopy study of the low lying isomer, 229mTh KU Leuven

Piet Van Duppen
Nuclear and Radiation Physics

The low-lying isomer in the Th-229 isotope has eluded physicists for the past decades and received a boost when its existence was proven in 2016. Its low excitation energy around 8 eV presents the only candidate in the entire known nuclear landscape where transportation of laser spectroscopy techniques from the atomic domain to the nuclear one becomes possible. In case this is successful, it opens the door for the development of the ...

MICROCOMB Micro ring based mode-locked integrated lasers and their use for dual comb spectroscopy Ghent University

Bart Kuyken
Department of Information technology

The proposed network will establish and support cross-sectorial training and research programme bringing together leading European academic and industrial centers working in the area of optical frequency combs in microresonators (microcombs). The programme will allow to combine and share some of the world leading experience and expertise
in the microcombs and train a new generation of scientists in this actively developing area bordering ...

Electrically pumped integrated visible comb lasers for spectroscopic sensing Ghent University

Bart Kuyken
Department of Information technology

Over the past decade, optical frequency combs have been used for a growing number of applications, such as chemical sensing, distance ranging, timekeeping, searching for exoplanets, and optical communication. Frequency comb sources in the visible to mid-infrared wavelength range are commercially available, but they are large and expensive instruments. To enable their widespread use, a fully integrated solution is highly desirable.
The ...

Cofunding Core Facility - Center for Non-Linear Microscopy and Spectroscopy Ghent University

Pieter Geiregat, Dries Van Thourhout, Zeger Hens
Department of Information technology, Department of Chemistry

NOLIMITS will be a Core Facility for non-linear optical microscopy and spectroscopy, supported by
both the Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. It will serve the UGent research
community and (non-)academic external partners, by grouping over a decade of expertise and advanced
infrastructure related to ultrashort pulsed lasers and the advanced accompanying optical spectroscopy and
microscopy ...

Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy (FLUORATE). University of Antwerp

Sofie Cambré
Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology (DuEL), Theory and Spectroscopy of Molecules and Materials (TSM²), Molecular Spectroscopy (MolSpec), Laboratory of adsorption and catalysis (LADCA), Biophysics and Biomedical Physics, Nanostructured and organic optical and electronic materials (NANOrOPT)
Optical materials are ubiquitous in present society. From the building blocks of displays and LEDs, to fibre optic communication for ultrafast internet, (plasmonic) nanostructures for photocatalysis, bulk heterojunctions for photovoltaics, probes for imaging, sensing and revealing reaction mechanisms in chemistry and catalysis and various nanostructures for nanophotonics applications. The in-depth knowledge on the nature and dynamics of the ...