Ultrafast Optics Lab  


Lasers:

    5W single frequency solid state laser at 532 nm (Coherent Verdi)
    Ti:Sapphire femtosecond laser (Kapteyn-Murnane Labs)
    Q switched microchip laser (JDS Uniphase) which can produce sub-nanosecond pulses at 1064 nm with energy of about 6 uJ
    He:Ne laser

Photonic crystal fiber related resources:

    5m highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber from Crystal-Fibre
    20m highly nonlinear photonic crystal fiber from Blazephotonics
    Newport 561/562 series Precision fiber optic linear stages
    Fiber cleaver

Optical table:

    Two 4' by 10' research grade optical tables and isolation systems from Newport

Femtosecond related resources:

    Various special optics for femtosecond laser applications including dispersion prisms,ultrafast laser beamsplitters, ultrafast laser mirrors, and crystal polarizers; One Autocorrelator for pulsewidth measurement; BBO crystal;

Conventional optics:

    Various optics including mirrors, lenses, cylindrical lenses, beamsplitters, polarizers, waveplates, gratings; Many high performance objective lenses;

Optomechanical components:

    Motorized translational stages and driver from Newport; piezoelectric actuator and driver; Various linear and rotational stages; Spatial filters; Various kinetic mounts; Various bases, posts, and post-holders

Other testing equipments:

    Ando Optical Spectrum Analyzer; Newport power meter; high speed photodiodes; Apogee 14bit cooled CCD camera; Pulnix CCD cameras;