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

  • 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

  • IMPATT Diodes

      Frequency: 142.2 and 292 GHz

      Max Power: 42.8 and 9.4 mW

Lasers

Spectrometers & vector network analyzers

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

      Wavelength range: 900 nm - 76 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 + ImageLab software

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

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

Spectrometer

  • 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

VNA

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

Nanoscribe

  • RoVa3D 5 Extruder 3D Printer

3Dprinter

  • EMS150R S Rotary Pumped Sputter Coating System

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