About

The Division of Quantum Optics and Optoelectronics of the Department of Chemical Physics and Optics is involved in ultrafast laser spectroscopy. It mainly focuses on the study of fast processes in solids such as magnetic metals, semiconductors and their nanostructures with application prospects in spintronics, photovoltaics and optoelectronics.

Our research is divided into three working groups:

• The optospintronics group, in which we study spin dynamics in magnetically ordered materials for applications in spintronics writing and information processing
• The ultrafast processes in solids group, for which we use attosecond laser pulses and ultrafast electron microscopy
• and the Terahertz Optics of Nanostructures Group, where we focus on modelling and theoretical description of the interaction of terahertz radiation mainly with semiconductors and their nanostructures

You can find us in the building of the Dean's Office of the MFF UK, Ke Karlovu 3 and in the adjacent building Ke Karlovu 5.

Our laboratories cover a wide range of spectroscopic methods and consist of Laboratory of optical spintronics suitable for time and space resolved magneto-optical experiments, Laboratory of terahertz spintronics using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, Laser laboratory with ultrashort pulses operating pulsed laser sources operating at the physical limit of time resolution, High-energy femtosecond laser laboratory enabling excitation with extreme optical powers, Laboratory of ultrafast electron microscopy using the fastest (femtosecond) electron beam imaging, and Magnetooptical Spectroscopy Laboratory offering experiments and characterization over a very wide spectral range.

For students we provide basic courses at the faculty, but we also offer a number of SFG projects and supervision of bachelor, master and doctoral theses.