Infrastructure
Equipment for the experiments and applied basic research
- Ti:Sapphire laser (Femtolasers GmbH, 800 nm, 20 fs, 75 MHz rep. rate)
- Nd:YAG laser (1064 nm (fundamental) up to 4th harmonic, 20 ns pulse duration, and 0-10Hz rep. rate), energy output : 850 mJ for the fundamental
- Nd:YAG diode pumped compact laser system (1064 nm (fundamental) and the 2nd harmonic @ 532 nm, few ns pulse duration, 0-500 Hz rep.rate), output energy : 5mJ for the fundamental.
- XeCl excimer laser (EMG 102 MSC Lamda Physik, 20 ns FWHM, 308 nm, 1-20 Hz rep. rate, 60 mJ/pulse average energy)
- Two Excimer Pumped Pulsed Dye Lasers (Lamda Physik Lambda-Physik, Model FL3002E, tunable wavelength variable from 185 to 975 nm)
- Two CW laser systems He-Ne @ 532/635 nm for educational experiments on interferometry and holography
- Digital oscilloscopes with 200-500 MHz sampling rate at single shot
- A home-made time of flight mass spectrometer (TOF-MS) of high accuracy
- Commercial broadband spectrometers (IR – Vis – UV)
- Compact high resolution and sensitivity spectrometer for NIR up to UV.
- Imaging systems (CCD Camera, Frame Grabber)
- High vacuum systems (down to 10-6 mbar)
- Experimental chambers for laser matter interaction and cluster production experiments
- Optical components and optical systems for characterization measurements, material absorption and emission of light in the infrared spectral region to remote ultraviolet
- Optical systems for measuring physical quantities ionised matter (plasma) detectors measure electrons and ions (micro-channel-plates) and photodiodes (in the IR/visible spectrum)
- Electronic and digital systems supporting experiments (power supplies, amplifiers, A/D converters, etc.).
Educational Equipment (undergraduate and postgraduate level)
The Laboratory has a collection of experimental devices for experiments Classical Mechanics, Aerodynamics, Thermodynamics, Optics, Wave, Electricity, Magnetism, Atomic and Nuclear Physics. Illustration of the experimental equipment and provisions:
- Airtables, air blowers, calorimetry, optical tables, optical data collection (eg lenses, prisms etc)
- He-Ne laser
- Spectrometer (linear spectrum lamps)
- Oscilloscopes
- Power supplies
- Ballistic galvanometer
- Strobe
- Geiger-Muller detector
- Hoppler viscosity meter
- X-ray generation device
- Hall effect device study
- Measurement device speed of sound in liquids (ultrasound)
- Quincke Interferometer
- Spectrometer analysis of light
- Michelson interferometer
- Frank Hertz Experiment
- X-ray experiment
- Layout design adiabatic change
- Layout & design diffraction contribution
- Sensors for measuring pressure, temperature, lighting.
Machine shop equipment
- Joinery lathe
- Lathe CNC, high precision 1500 mm screen
- Joiner boring machines
- Tabletop Drill
- Welding (Argon method with TIC, etc.)
- Variety of power tools and hand tools
- Drawing
Software and hardware
- Network computers (PC, laptop, UPS)
- Plotter
- Scanner
Audiovisual
- Fully equipped for multimedia presentations, research and education