Optical spectroscopy
Hybrid Quantum Systems

Optical spectroscopy is a powerful tool to study the physics of excitons in 2D materials. Our group specializes in absorption spectroscopy, photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy, nonlinear optical (SHG) spectroscopy, magneto-optical spectroscopy, and photoluminescence imaging among others.

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To conduct a full range of complex optical studies we have the broadband supercontinuum laser (FIANIUM FIU-15, NKT Photonics) coupled with tunable bandpass filters with different spectral width options (SuperK Varia and LLTF Contrast, NKT Photonics) allowing it to operate as a white light source as well as a narrow line source. The high resolution of the collected signal is provided by the spectrometer (Teledyne Prinston Instruments) coupled with a highly sensitive cooled CCD camera (PyLoN 1340x100BRX LN, Teledyne Prinston Instruments). For the PL imaging, we use the home-built microscope system with white light LED (SOLIS-1D, Thorlabs) and CMOS camera (CS126CU, Thorlabs).

Related publications:

“Guide to optical spectroscopy of layered semiconductors”
S Shree, I Paradisanos, X Marie, C Robert, B Urbaszek
Nature Reviews Physics, 3, 39–54 (2021)

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“The physical origins of Extreme cross-polarization extinction in confocal microscopy”
Meryem Benelajla, Elena Kammann, Bernhard Urbaszek, Khaled Karrai
Physical Review X 11, 021007 (2021)

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