Laser Spectroscopic Facilities
• Excimer lasers
• Nd:YAG lasers
• Ultra-fast laser systems
• Narrow band laser systems
Applications
Nanosecond Pump/Probe Spectroscopy
- 10 ns time resolution
- Tunable excitation wavelength: 1064 nm, 532 nm, and 266 nm, and Optical-Parametric-Oscillator-tunable wavelengths covering the range 420-850 nm. Fast spectral acquisition. “Stop-flow" instrumentation for flow-flash experiments
Femtosecond Laser Facilities
- Ti:Sapphire laser system (oscillator/regenerative amplifier with 43 fs pulses of 1 mJ per pulse at 805 nm wavelength
- Two Optical Parametric Amplifiers generating powerful laser pulses at 1 kHz repetition rate - Wavelength tunable from 300 nm-1.9 mm. Pulse energies up to 0.1 mJ per pulse
Femtosecond Transient Absorption Spectrometer (UV/Visible-mid NIR)
- 30 and 40 fs time resolution
- Excitation and probe wavelengths tunable from 300-1200 nm and 1350 to 5000 cm-1
- Background noise < 0.5 mOD per second of accumulation
Steady State Fluorescence Spectrometers
- Interchangeable excitation light source
- Transmission and reflection operation regimes
- Built in Time Correlated Single Photon Counting (250 ps excitation at 377 and 440 nm)
- CCD and PMT detection
Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectrometers
- Transmission and reflection operation regimes
- Frequency range of 100-10000 cm-1
Circular-Dichroism Optical Spectrometer
- Spectral region from 180 nm-900 nm