Facilities

The lab is equipped with state-of-the-art femtosecond and nanosecond laser systems, hardware for beam and pulse shaping, and various tools for optical tests and measurements.

Terawatt-class femtosecond laser system

Hidra-25 Ti:Sapphire laser system by Coherent

35 fs pulses at 800 nm wavelength, 10 Hz pulse repetition frequency

35 mJ maximum pulse energy

 

 

 

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High-energy femtosecond Optical Parametric Amplifier

Palitra-HE OPA by Quantronix

Pumped by 35 fs, 20 mJ pulses at 800 nm wavelength from Hidra

Wavelength coverage from 460 nm to 2700 nm

30% peak conversion efficiency

 

 

 

 

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Joule-level nanosecond Nd:YAG laser

Powerlite DLS Plus laser by Continuum

3.3 J, 6 ns pulses at 1064 nm wavelength

10 Hz pulse repetition frequency

Conversion to 532 nm, 355 nm, and 266 nm

 

 

 

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Femtosecond laser system with 1 kHz pulse repetition frequency

Libra-USP-HE Ti:Sapphire laser system by Coherent

<50 fs pulses at 800 nm wavelength, 1 kHz pulse repetition frequency

4 mJ energy per pulse