The group's research interests cover a wide range of light-material interaction phenomena, ranging from the development of laser micromachining technologies in transparent and absorbent materials to theoretical simulation of light propagation.
Femtosecond laser micromachined samples
Group members
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Prof. habil. dr. Valdas Sirutkaitis (leader) +3705 236 6005
Room 103, Laser Research Center |
- Staff: dr. Domas Paipulas, dr. Simas Butkus, dr. Julius Vengelis, dr. Ona Balachninaitė, dr. Eugenijus Gaižauskas, prof. habil. dr. Valerijus Smilgevičius, dr. Viktorija Tamulienė, dr. Vygandas Jarutis, dr. Aidas Matijošius, dr. Virgilijus Vaičaitis, dr. Rimantas Grigonis
- PhD students: Ieva Pipinytė, Lina Mažulė, Agnė Butkutė
Scientific research topics
- The development of novel femtosecond micromachining technologies by utilisig Lithuanian-made femtosecond laser systems;
- Spectroscopic studies of the laser-induced plasma for monitoring of femtosecond micromachining;
- Theoretical and experimental investigation of laser beam propagation physics: generation of supercontinuum in photonic crystals, vortex beam formation, nonlinear optics;
- Development of the ultrafast spectroscopy in the THz range.
Main publications and partners
Main publications:
- C. S. Ponseca, Jr. et al., Pulsed terahertz emission from solution-processed lead iodide perovskite films, accepted to ACS Photonics (2019).
- J. Skruibis et al.,“Multiple-pulse laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy for monitoring the femtosecond laser micromachining process of glass, Optics and Laser Technology 111, 295-302 (2019).
- M. Gecevicius et. al., Toward the generation of broadband optical vortices: extending the spectral range of a q-plate by polarization-selective filtering, JOSA B, V.1, p. 190 (2018).
- V. Vaičaitis et al., Influence of laser-preformed plasma on THz wave generation in air by bichromatic laser pulses, Laser physics, 28, art. no 095402 (2018).
- J. Vengelis et. al., Characteristics of optical parametric oscillator synchronously pumped by Yb:KGW laser and based on periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate crystal, Opt. Comm. 410, 774—781 (2018).
- J. Vengelis et. al., Estimation of photonic crystal fiber dispersion by means of supercontinuum generation, Opt. Letters 42 (19), 1844 − 1847 (2017).
- T. Tickunas et al., Combination of additive and subtractive laser 3D microprocessing in hybrid glass/polymer microsystems for chemical sensing applications, Opt. Express 25(21), 26280 (2017).
- S. Butkus et al., Rapid microfabrication of transparent materials using filamented femtosecond laser pulses, Appl. Phys. A., 114(1), 81-90 (2014).
International partners: Shizuoka University (Prof. V. Mizeikis); Galatea Lab., EPFL (Prof. Y.Bellouard), Tartu University (Dr. V. Nagirnyj); Latvia University (Prof. R. Ferber); Linköping University, (Dr. C. Ponseca), Leibniz University of Hannover (Prof. U. Morgner), Max Born Institute, Berlin, (Dr. I. Babushkin); University of Southampton, (Dr. M. Beresna); University of Gothenburg, (Prof. D.Hanstorp); Brno University of Technology (prof. J. Kaiser); Cairo University (dr. A. Galmed), University of Patras (Prof. S. Couris), University of Technology in Braunschweig (Prof. A. Dietzel).