This is a joint laboratory between KTH and Stockholm University for nonlinear optics, laser physics and surface science.
The laboratory was funded in 2003 by the Molecular Physics group at the Physics Department of SU and the Laser Physics group from the Applied Physics Department at KTH, as a result of generous funding primarily from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. It has since then been further developed and now comprises two more groups; the Cell Physics group at KTH, and the Quantum Information and Quantum Optics group at SU, with a total of 60 researchers, including 27 Ph.D students.
Research program
We are now in the 21st century, the century of the photon. Photonics, and particularly laser physics and nonlinear optics, are the tools for development of science today and it is a field of high technology with rapid growth. With these technologies we can observe phenomena that previously were invisible to us, and we can get unprecedented precision and accuracy in our observations and measurements.
Profound solutions to today's grand challenges for our society like global climate change and energy production rely on a thorough scientific understanding of the underlying natural processes and their interrelations. For this purpose, we study in the Ultrafast Chemical Physics laboratory the physical principles governing the atmospheric chemistry driven by sunlight and surface reactions in energy conversion.
