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Equipment of the Laser Spectroscopy Facility

The Facility provides access to the following major instruments:

Nanosecond lasers

  • Spectra Physics DCR2. 500 mJ at 1064 nm.
  • EKLSPLA ML302 500 mJ at 1064 nm.
  • Continuum Surelite 2 500 mJ at 1064 nm.
  • Spectra Physics PDL dye lasers. Tunable 380 – 800 nm.
  • Continuum SL OPO. Tunable 410 – 2000 nm.

EKLSPLA ML302 500 mJ at 1064 nm.
  • Lambda Physik EMG 53 MSC. Excimer (308/248/193 nm) 150 mJ
  • Lambda Physik LPX 300 Excimer (308/248/193 nm) 1 J.
  • Lambda Physik EMG 101 Excimer (308/248/193 nm) 150 mJ.
  • Quantronix 266-S UV CW pumped, high rep rate. 600 mW at 266 nm.

Continuous wave systems

  • Coherent Innova 100 Ar-ion 20 W all lines
  • Coherent Innova 90 Ar-ion 10 W all lines, optimized for UV
  • Coherent 699 Ring laser with Autoscan. Tunable 600 – 800 nm.

Picosecond laser

  • EksplaPL2143B 80 mJ at 1064 nm, 25 ps.
  • OPO’s tunable 410 to 2000 nm, 25 ps.


EksplaPL2143B 80 mJ at 1064 nm, 25 ps.

Other instruments

  • Perkin & Elmer FTIR System 2000. Absorption, reflection, ATR 350 – 8000 cm-1.
  • Hitachi F4500 Fluorescence spec. Exciation and detection 200 – 900 nm, 3D plots.
  • LKB Ultraspec II Absorption 200 – 900 nm.

Hitachi F4500 Fluorescence spectrometer
  • System for nano-second fluorescence and transient absorption.
  • The double-pass pulse-train amplifier with harmonic generators.

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