Laser Spectroscopy and Optics (SOL) Group
The Head of the Laser Spectroscopy and Optics (LSO) group is Dr. Angela Staicu.
The group was founded, as Laser Spectroscopy Group (LSG), in 1975 by Prof. Mihail Lucian Pascu, within the Institute of Physics – Bucharest (IFB) which belonged, at the time, to the Romanian Academy. It functioned between 1975 and 1977 as part of IFB, between 1977 and 1996 within the Institute of Physics and Technology of Radiation Devices (IFTAR) - Laser Department and from 1996 to-date as part of the National.
In 2018 LSG took over the Laser Interferometry & Applications (ILA) Group of INFLPR which was founded in 1982 by Dr. Dan Apostol. The new group is denominated currently Laser Spectroscopy and Optics (LSO) Group and includes 17 scientists out of whom – at the moment - 14 PhD in physics, one PhD student, one assistant research scientist and one technician.
The main characteristics of the scientific activity is the approach of multidisciplinary studies using tunable lasers from UV to THz, optics and optical spectroscopy methods as well as interferometric and holographic means to develop studies in fields such as:
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Ernest Rutherford
Mihail-Lucian Pascu
Scientific Researcher 1st degree
Angela Staicu
Scientific Researcher 1st degree
Petre Catalin Logofatu
Scientific Researcher 1st degree
Adriana Smarandache
Scientific Researcher 3rd degree
Ionut Relu Andrei
Scientific Researcher 3rd degree
Iuliana Urzica
Scientific Researcher 3rd degree
Florin Garoi
Scientific Researcher 3rd degree
Andra Dinache
Scientific Researcher 3rd degree
Tatiana Tozar
Scientific Researcher 3rd degree
Mihai Boni
Scientific Researcher 3rd degree
Mihaela Bojan
Scientific Researcher
Cristian Udrea
Scientific Researcher
Agota Simon
Scientific Researcher Assistant
Ana-Maria Udrea
Scientific Researcher 3rd degree
Ioana Simona Nistorescu
Laboratory Technician
SOL Team
Only the Best People are working hrere
SOL group has 16 members out of whom 13 are PhD in physics, one is PhD student in Optics and Spectroscopy, one follows master course in biochemistry and another is technical assistant. Prof. Mihail Lucian Pascu heads PhD in Physics, specialty “Optics, Spectroscopy, Laser, Plasma Physics”. As for specialties, members are chosen to cover the multidisciplinary approach of the research in the group: advanced optics and spectroscopy, biophysics, environment monitoring and engineering, biology, biochemistry, spectroscopy modelling of atomic and molecular systems, advanced laser physics (tunable lasers with deformable active media, micro- and nano-lasers, diode lasers with chaotic emission, THz lasers), interferometry.
The fields covered by team members are: optofluidics (surface tensions and contact angles), microfluidics (foams and emulsions), optical spectroscopy in UV – VIS – IR- NIR- FIR- THz (emission and absorption, FTIR, Raman, TLC, HPLC, LIF) biomedicine (laser medical systems, fighting drug resistance with laser instruments), laser methods in outer space, surface physics from basics to technological applications.
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