The State Key Laboratory of Laser Interaction with Matter(SKLLIM) was approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology  in September,2009. The supporting institutions are the Northwest Institute of nuclear technology and CIOMP. The laboratory went through acceptance in December, 2011. Meanwhile laboratory faces into information, materials, energy and other disciplines of the international research frontier and is closely related to the economic and social development and national security, to carry out the basic research and application of laser and material interaction. The laboratory possesses research bulidings with real 9,200 square meter, a total of more than 100 sets of important equipment, the total price of nearly 0.1 billion yuan.

Main research fields:

(1) Laser irradiation effect and mechanism

(2) High power laser plasma physics

(3) Laser diagnostic technique of combustion flow field

(4) High power heavy gas laser technology