Main directions of research are precision laser spectroscopy and polarization of noble gas nuclei 

A method of precision measurements of optical activity has been developed at the laboratory and a unique laser spectropolarimeter has been created. This setup was used to reveal and reliably measure the optical activity of atomic bismuth, which is determined by a parity-preserving weak interaction of atom electrons with nucleons; a novel method of Faraday spectroscopy for measurement of atomic spectral parameters has been developed.  

Together with the Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, within the framework of the KaTRIn Project for the search of disturbed T-invariance, a variety of a neutron filter with extremely low leading magnetic field was created based on optically polarized 3He to produce polarized beams. At a neutron energy of 0.025 eV, the extent of their polarization was registered to be 25%.

Together with the Laboratory of Laser Spectroscopy (Head, Prof. T. Hensch) of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Germany), a cycle of studies of ultrafine-structure splitting in hydrogen-like systems – hydrogen and deuterium – has been completed.

At present, experimental studies of single plasmons in nanowires are under way together with Harvard University (USA). 

An exact criterion of the existence of spin waves in cold paramagnetic gases has been theoretically obtained. The existence of spin waves in nonpolarized gases has been also predicted.

A magneto-optical atomic trap for rubidium-87 has been started with the aim to investigate the interaction of cold atoms with radiation of a continuous femtosecond laser.

A laser source of a bichromatic field with phase-linked components, intended for studies of the coherent trapping of populations with a large difference of frequences has been created and studied with the view of searching for new high-Q resonances.  

Studies of the processes occurring in the active medium of an iodine laser have been carried out over a period of many years, Researchers of the laboratory have taken part in the creation of the first photodissociation laser in this country. Over this time, generation on a whole range of new compounds has been obtained and original methods for studies of fast physicochemical processes accompanying the generation have been developed; the rate constants of more than 20 reactions have been measured. In the recent time,  processes occurring in the active medium of a pulsed oxygen-iodine laser have been studied. The recombination constants of fluoroalkyl radicals with oxygen have been determined, as well as constants of a number of peroxy radical reactions.