MENU Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS)
Welcome to CUOS
The Gérard Mourou Center for Ultrafast Optical Science (CUOS) is an interdisciplinary research center in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Its mission is to perform multidisciplinary research in the basic science and technological applications of ultrashort laser pulses, to educate students from a wide variety of backgrounds in the field, and to spur the development of new technologies.
ZEUS
The NSF Zettawatt-Equivalent Ultrashort pulse laser System (ZEUS) Facility, managed by CUOS, is the highest-power laser in the U.S., and among the highest-power lasers in the world.
ZEUS is an NSF sponsored user facility, offering external uses experimental access to spur scientific advances.
CUOS researchers develop optical instrumentation and techniques to generate, manipulate, and detect ultrashort and ultrahigh-peak-power light pulses. They use these ultrashort pulses to study ultrafast physical phenomena in atomic, nuclear, plasma, and materials physics, in solid-state electronics, in high-energy-density physics, and in biomedicine.
