The LIDYL Nanolight platform is located in an 85 m² laboratory on the CEA site at l’Orme des Merisiers. Based on a Ytterbium fiber laser with a 100 kHz repetition rate, pumping an OPCPA system (FASTLITE STARZZ), it delivers four femtosecond beam lines:
- 1 µm, 46 fs, 300 µJ
- 1.8 µm, 40 fs, 15 µJ, stable CEP
- 2.4 µm, 80 fs, 13 µJ
- EUV (photon energies up to 40 eV)
These light lines, together with their ancillary equipment, are available for a wide range of applications, from strong-field physics in semiconductors and dielectrics, to high-order harmonic generation in crystals, ultrafast nanoplasmonics, lens-free femtosecond nanoscale imaging, wavefront detection and lithography.
Lens-free microscopy
Lens-free imaging is an original and innovative project, applied and derived from fundamental research. In a more applied approach, and as part of a collaboration between Imagine Optic and LIDYL, a compact prototype based on lensless imaging has been developed.
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Nanofabrication facility
The laboratory masters sample fabrication, from digital design to nanomodeling. In addition, our proximity to the Université Paris-Saclay has opened up a long-standing collaboration with ISMO , providing access to a focused ion beam (FIB) source, as well as to C2N‘s clean rooms dedicated to nano-fabrication (electron beam lithography, laser lithography, etc.).
A SEM is also available at our Institute for sample validation and post-experimental analysis.