Laboratory of ultrafast electron microscopy

The laboratory of ultrafast electron microscopy was developed in 2022 thanks to the support of the ERC Starting Grant eWaveShaper In this laboratory we will study ultrafast processes in solids with spatial resolution of few nanometers and femtosecond time resolution. Further we will study the interaction between light and free electrons and their control by shaped light fields in the electron microscope. The laboratory is equipped with the femtosecond laser Ytterbium-60 (AFS Jena), which allows to generate pulses with central wavelength of 1030 nm with the duration of about 250 fs. The repetition rate of the laser is up to 10 MHz with the maximum average power of 60 W. This laser and its harmonic frequencies (515 nm, 343 nm and 257 nm) will serve for generation of femtosecond electron pulses in the electron gun of the scanning electron microscope Verios 5 UC (ThermoFischer Scientific), which allows to reach spatial resolution below 1 nm.