Experimental capabilities

Characterisation

Lasers & other sources

• Mai Tai ultrafast Ti:Sapphire laser + Inspire OPO fs laser

      Wavelength: signal: 490-750 nm, Idler: 930-2500 nm, Fundamental: 690-1040 nm

      Max Power: signal: 350 mW, Idler: 170 mW, Fundamental: 1000 mW

      Repetition Frequency: 80 MHz

      Pulse duration: 200 fs

• Fianium supercontinuum laser

      Wavelength: 490 nm - 1800 nm

      Max Power: 500 mW

      Repetition Frequency: 80 MHz

• Thorlabs Fabry-Perot Quantum Cascade Laser

      Wavelength: 4550 nm

      Max Power: 200 mW

• Cobolt Rumba 1064 nm CW laser

      Wavelength: 1064 nm

      Max Power: 3.6 W

• He – Ne CW laser

      Wavelength: 632.8 nm

      Max Power: 5 mW

• KIMMON KONA

      Wavelength: 325 nm

      Max Power: 50 mW

• IMPATT Diodes

      Frequency: 142.2 and 292 GHz

      Max Power: 42.8 and 9.4 mW

Spectrometers & vector network analyzers

• Renishaw inVia Reflex Spectrometer System for confocal Raman spectral imaging

     Visible excitation at 457nm, 532 nm, 633 nm and 785 nm

     Research Grade Leica microscope allowing confocal measurements

• Vertex 70/70v FTIR spectrometer with HYPERION 1000 Microscope

      Wavelength range: 300 nm - 30 µm

      Magnification: 4x, 15x

• Andor SR-500 spectrometer with EMCDD/PMT

      Wavelength range: 200 nm – 2000 nm

• TERA K15 All fiber-coupled time-domain terahertz spectrometer

      Frequency: 0.2 – 3 THz

      Dynamic range: >60 dB

      Maximum scan range: 350 ps

      Spectral resolution: >3 GHz

      THz imaging extension (planar scan) + ImageLab software

      Near-field capability with Protemics TeraSpike TD-1550-X-HR-WT and TD-1550-X-HR-WT-XR 

      Temperature-controlled (from ambient to circa 250°C) experiments of liquids and solids with SPECAC cells

• Toptica TeraFlash Pro Dual (2 emitters + 2 detectors)

      Frequency: 0.2 – 6.5 THz

      Dynamic range: >105 dB

      Maximum scan range: 2000 ps

      Spectral resolution: >0.5 GHz

      THz imaging extension (planar scan)

      Reflection head

      Purging box

      Near-field capability with Protemics TeraSpike TD-1550-X-HR-WT and TD-1550-X-HR-WT-XR 

      Temperature-controlled (from ambient to circa 250°C) experiments of liquids and solids with SPECAC cells

• Keysight PNA-L N5234B

      Maximum frequency: 43.5 GHz

      Dynamic range: 122 dB

      Spectral resolution: 1 Hz

      Used along with a XYZ-translation stage for near-field measurements

• Keysight PNA-L N5232A

      Maximum frequency: 20 GHz

      Dynamic range: 133 dB

      Spectral resolution: 1 Hz

• HP 3585A Spectrum Analyzer

      Frequency range: 20 Hz – 40.1 MHz

      Dynamic range: 80 dB

      Spectral resolution: 0.1 Hz

Scanning vibrometers

• PSV-400 Scanning Vibrometer

      Working distance: > 0.4 m to about 100 m

      Sample size: Several mm² up to m² range

THz cameras

• TeraSense Tera-1024

      Sensitivity optimized at 140 GHz

      Pixel size: 1.5 mm x 1.5 mm

      Noise Equivalent Power: 1 nW/√Hz

• Ophir Pyrocam IV

      Broadband sensitivity

      Pixel size: 75μm x 75μm

      Noise Equivalent Power: 13nW/√Hz/pixel (1Hz)

Spatial light modulator

• Holoeye PLUTO Phase Only Spatial Light Modulator

      Wavelength range: 420nm - 700nm

      Resolution: 1920*1080

      Pixel Patch: 8µm

Fabrication

• Nanoscribe’s Photonic Professional GT⁺

      3D lateral feature size (IP-Dip): ≤ 200 nm; typically 150 nm

      2D lateral resolution (IP-Dip): ≤ 500 nm; typically 300 nm

      Vertical resolution (IP-Dip): ≤ 1000 nm; typically 800 nm

      Piezo range: 300×300×300 μm³

      Writing speed piezo mode typ. 100 µm/s

      Accessible writing area: up to 100×100 mm²

• RoVa3D 5 Extruder 3D Printer

• DEKEMA 674S sinter oven

      Vacuum operation

      Firing chamber 100 mm x 50 mm (diameter x height)

• EMS150R S Rotary Pumped Sputter Coating System

      Work chamber: Borosilicate glass 152mm Ø (inside) × 127mm H