Macquarie University
NSW 2109
Pioneering laser technologies for diverse applications
The Molecular and Optical Physics Laboratory (MOPL) is an integral part of Macquarie University's MQ Photonics Research Centre.
From a firm basis of basic research in molecular and optical physics, MOPL’s aim is to develop and implement laser-based instruments for spectroscopic sensing in industry, medicine, agriculture and the environment.
MOPL members, Professor Brian Orr and Dr Yabai He, have developed several items of laser-based intellectual property, covered by four patent applications. They have also collaborated extensively with researchers in other universities (both in Australia and abroad), in industry and in government institutions.
Our research areas
MOPL’s research interests cover a range of topics in molecular and optical physics, applying laser and spectroscopic techniques. Some of these are:
- cavity-enhanced optical techniques
- chemical analysis
- high-fidelity frequency transfer over optical fibres
- high-resolution spectroscopy
- laser-based instrumentation
- molecular energy-transfer processes
- narrowband tunable optical parametric oscillators
- nonlinear optics
- nonlinear-optical spectroscopic techniques
- novel forms of cavity-ringdown spectroscopy
- optical sensing applications to agriculture, livestock, biomedicine, wastewater treatment and the atmospheric environment
- photochemistry
- photonic techniques.