General Information
The National Institute for Laser, Plasma and
Radiation Physics (INFLPR), in its present structure, was
born in November 1996 (
HG1310/25.11.1996 ). It was formed by merging
two institutes: the Institute of Physics and Technology
of Radiation Devices (IFTAR) and the
Institute of Space Sciences (ISS).
The previous IFTAR was created in January 1977 by joining
several laboratories from two former institutes of physics,
the Institute of Atomic Physics and the
Bucharest Institute of Physics.
As a result, the INFLPR's laboratories on laser
and electron accelerators
came from the Institute of Atomic Physics, while the
plasma laboratories previously belonged to the
Bucharest Institute of Physics.
The National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics
is carrying out basic and applied research in the fields of
laser, plasma, electron beam and space physics.
The Institute is located in the Magurele Physics Campus,
south of Bucharest, at about 10 km distance from its center.
The Magurele Physics Campus also includes other physics
research institutes, the
Faculty of Physics of the
University of Bucharest,
a high school, a shopping
center and the residences of some of the institute's employees.
Since the first Romanian laser (1962) was developed
in our Institute, the activity in the field witnessed an intensive
development and diversification from basic and applied research
(physics of direct emission processes, nonlinear optical
processes, quantum optics, interaction of radiation with matter)
to technological development through small-scale production of
lasers and laser equipment for various applications such as medicine
(surgery, ophthalmology and so on) or materials processing
(welding, cutting, drilling, marking and so on).
The basic research in the field enabled in many instances
innovative solutions in construction of lasers and development
of applications, while the small-scale production and the
expertise developed in the Institute was essential in
creation of a large-variety user community (medicine,
mechanical or electronic engineering). The scientific accounts
of the work which have been carried out at the Laser
Laboratories (Laser Department, Solid-State Quantum Electronics
Laboratory) of the National Institute for Laser, Plasma and Radiation Physics can be summarized as follows: a)
Developments of laser systems (solid-state lasers from continuous-wave to fs generation and from microchip to high power,
excimer lasers, CO2 lasers) towards the construction of the TW -class femtosecond laser with a further extension to higher power
using OPCPA technique. The activity in the laser field involves all the aspects of laser, such as the laser active medium, vacuum
deposited optical components, devices for Q-switching or mode-locking, nonlinear devices, mechanical and electronic parts and
so on; b) The science being carried out within the Laser Laboratories by own scientists and university colleagues from Romania
and from elsewhere in Europe includes theory and experiments related to laser-atoms, laser-plasma interaction towards laser
particles acceleration, and laser-surface interaction for material processing, thin film pulsed laser deposition, laser nanotechnologies,
biomedical applications and nonlinear optics purposes; c) Laser metrology. Cooperation with leading institutes
from Europe, USA, Japan or Russia by direct agreement or within international programmes (EU FP6 and FP7, NATO etc) was
instrumental for the high level of the results of research.
In the Laser Laboratories from INFLPR there are various laser equipments, for example: nanosecond lasers (1064, 532,
355, 266 nm wavelengths), excimer lasers (248 nm), CO2 lasers, picosecond microchip oscillator-multipass amplifier (1064, 532,
266 nm), femtosecond laser oscillator-regenerative amplifier (775 nm, 200 fsec, 0.7 mJ, 2 kHz). Our expertise is in the field of
laser systems development, as well as laser studies and applications such as laser-atoms, laser-plasma interaction, laser-surface
interaction with emphases on the material processing, thin film pulsed laser deposition, laser nano-technologies, biomedical
applications, nonlinear optics, laser metrology.
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