Project Summary
The Molecular Photonics Laboratory for Ultrafast Science and Technology (MPLUST) at Sofia University is designed first and foremost to promote contemporary scientific research and education. Molecular Photonics is an emerging field of multi-disciplinary research integrating physics, chemistry, life science and engineering. These interacting areas provide timely motivations for the development of molecular photonics at ultimate time and space scales. We implement photon-based methods with femtosecond timing to record molecular dynamics, which fully resolve the primary processes. A focus of the experimental and theoretical work is electron, proton and energy transfer, which have fundamental importance for the life science and profound impact on the development of new photonics technologies.