Dr. Ona Balachninaitė

Dr. Ona Balachninaitė

Phone: +370 521 93 044

E-mail: ona.balachninaite@ff.vu.lt

Laser Research Center (LRC)

Laser physics

Associate Professor / Senior Researcher

• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ona_Balachninaite
• https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0433-3975

• G. Zaremba, D. Paipulas, V. Vaičaitis, and O. Balachninaitė, Effect of femtosecond ultraviolet and infrared laser wavelength on plasma characteristics of metals, ceramics and glass samples using femtosecond laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, Applied spectroscopy, vol. 78, 6, 1943-3530 (2024); doi:10.1177/00037028241240782.
• T. Bukelis, E. Gaižauskas, O. Balachninaitė, D. Paipulas, Femtosecond IR and UV laser induced periodic structures on steel and copper surfaces, Surfaces and Interfaces, 102869, ISSN 2468-0230 (2023); doi: 10.1016/j.surfin.2023.102869.
• O. Balachninaite, J.Skruibis, A. Matijosius, V. Vaicaitis, Temporal and spatial properties of plasma induced by infrared femtosecond laser pulses in air, Plasma Sources Science& Technology, Vol. 31, 045001 (2022); doi: 10.1088/1361-6595/ac5c62.
• J. Banys, J. Savickyte, O. Balachninaite, S. Armalyte, V. Tamuliene, V. Jarutis, J. Vengelis, Performance investigation of high-efficiency widely tunable subnanosecond optical parametric generator and amplifier based on MgO: PPLN, Optics Express, Vol. 30, pp. 23163-23176 (2022); doi: 10.1364/OE.459826.
• O. Balachninaite, V. Tamuliene, L. Eicas, V. Vaicaitis, Laser micromachining of steel and copper using femtosecond laser pulses in GHz burst mode, Results in Physics, Vol. 22, p. 103847 (2021), doi: 10.1016/j.rinp.2021.103847.
• J. Skruibis, O. Balachninaite, S. Butkus, V. Vaicaitis, V. Sirutkaitis, Multiple-Pulse Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy for Monitoring the Femtosecond Laser Micromachining Process of Glass, Optics and Laser Technology, Vol. 111, pp. 295-302 (2019); doi: 10.1016/j.optlastec.2018.10.005.
• L. Mačernytė, J. Skruibis, V. Vaičaitis, R. Sirutkaitis, O. Balachninaitė , Femtosecond Laser Micromachining of Soda–Lime Glass in Ambient Air and under Various Aqueous Solutions, Micromachines 10(6), 354 (2019); doi:10.3390/mi10060354.
• V. Vaičaitis, O. Balachninaitė, U. Morgner, I. Babushkin, Terahertz radiation generation by three-color laser pulses in air filament, J. Appl. Phys. 125, 173103 (2019); doi:10.1063/1.5078683.
• V. Vaičaitis, R. Butkus, O. Balachninaitė, U. Morgner, I. Babushkin, “Diffraction-enhanced femtosecond white-light filaments in air”, Appl. Phys. B, 124: 221 (2018).
• A. Baškevičius, O. Balachninaitė, M. Karpavičius, S. Butkus, D. Paipulas, V. Sirutkaitis, Monitoring of the Femtosecond Laser Micromachining Process of Materials Immersed in Water by Use of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, J. Laser Micro Nanoeng., 11(3), 381-387 (2016).

• HORIZON-INFRA-2023-SERV-01-03 project "LASERS4EU" – "EUROPEAN LASER RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURES SERVING SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY"; role: local project coordinator/leader (2024 – present)
• HORIZON 2020 project LASERLAB-EUROPE – The Integrated Initiative of European Laser Research Infrastructures; role: local project coordinator (2008 – 2024)
• National complex programme "LAMETECH INFRASTRUKTŪRA"; role: project leader

• Laser Technologies (undergraduate course in Light Engineering program (in English), Vilnius University, since 2019)
• Light Technologies (undergraduate course in Electronics and Telecommunications Technologies program, Vilnius University, since 2015)
• Quantum electronics (undergraduate course in Electronics and Telecommunications Technologies program, Vilnius University, 2004 – 2015)

Erasmus+ Teaching mobility:

• Laser physics (Master course for Physics students, Gdansk Technical University, Poland, April 2019);
• Laser physics and applications (undergraduate course for Physics students, Coimbra University, Portugal, March 2018).

Supervision of Studens Thesis

Participation in the national international governing bodies commissions committees boards etc.