François Légaré
Director
Advanced Laser Light Source
Center for Optics Photonics and Lasers
Canada
Biography
Projects in progress : • Forefront light source developments for ultrafast molecular imaging and table top X-ray science • Novel laser technologies for the amplification and the frequency conversion of octave spanning laser sources • Optical process control for plasma-assisted deposition of functional nanoelectronic thin films • Development of a THz multi-MV/cm source and its applications for nonlinear optics • Development of widely tunable mid-IR coherent light source based on a synchronized dual color picosecond laser system • New generation of femtosecond lasers based on frequency domain optical parametric amplification • Development of a simplified platform for coherent Raman microscopy • Femto/picosecond tunable infrared source for the fabrication of organic thin films • Prototype validation for a new generation of streak scanning camera • Integration of solid-state picosecond laser to a plasma deposition chamber • Tunable mid-infrared light sources based on O/E-Land fiber based laser technologies • Using laser ablation to give metallic surfaces hydrophobic/icephobic properties • Novel attosecond technologies for real-time imaging and control of ultrafast processes in materials • Guided Light, Tightly Packed: novel concepts, components and applications • Table-top soft X-ray absorption spectroscopy based on high average/peak power femtosecond laser
Research Interest
Molecular imaging Multiphotonic microscopy of biological tissues
Publications
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G. Ernotte, P. Lassonde, F. Légaré, and B. E. Schmidt, Frequency domain tailoring for intra-pulse frequency mixing (2016, under review at Opt. Express).
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S. Beaulieu, S. Camp, D. Descamps, A. Combie, V. Wanie, S. Petit, F. Légaré, K. J. Schafer, M. B. Gaarde, F. Catoire, and Y. Mairesse, Role of Excited States In High-order Harmonic Generation (2016, under review at Phys. Rev. Lett.).
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S. Beaulieu, A. Ferré, R. Géneaux, R. Canonge, D. Descamps, B. Fabre, N. Fedorov, F. Légaré, S. Petit, T. Ruchon, V. Blanchet, Y. Mairesse, B. Pons, Universality of photoelectron circular dichroism in the photoionization of chiral molecules (2016, submitted to New J. Phys.)
