- Various spectroscopic techniques (absorption, LIF, quantum beat spectroscopy, photo/field-ionization)
- Laser development (development of external cavity diode lasers with extended mode-hop free tuning, various injection seeded 532 nm Nd:YAG pumped Ti:Sapphire lasers, novel intra-cavity second harmonic generation for type-II crystals, intra-cavity pulse modulation for linewidth narrowing of an Alexandrite laser, dual-wavelength injection seeding of a flashlamp pumped Ti:Sapphire, narrow linewidth fiber amplifier, optical parametric oscillator)
- Design, setup, and maintenance of HV and UHV chambers
- Design and setup of high temperature supersonic nozzles
- Design and setup of high-efficiency detectors for atoms
- Design and setup of electron/ion lenses
- Environmental sensing based on lasers
- Installation/programming of data acquisition systems (IEEE, DAC, FPGA based, Frame Grabber)
- Monte-Carlo simulations, numerical methods