
Spectra Physics Femtosecond Laser (General Facility Project No: GS 01/08)
Features:
• Tsunami femtosecond oscillator working at a centre wavelength of 800 nm with output power 3W.
• 'Spitfire Pro' femtosecond amplifier with centre wavelength 800 nm and output power 4W.
• Frequency: 80 MHz mode locked for Tsunami and 1 KHz for Spitfire Pro.
• Pulse width: 80 - 109 fs; bandwidth:12 nm.
• TOPAS prime optical parametric amplifier tunable from 240 nm -2600 nm in femtosecond durations.
• Universal streak camera for 3 dimensional spectroscopy offering a temporal resolution up to 1 ps.
Applications:
• Multiphoton absorption & imaging.
• Fluorescence lifetime measurements.
• Laser ablation & plasma diagnostics.
• Transient absorption measurements.
• Nonlinear spectroscopy & material processing.
• Time of flight measurements. • Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) studies.
• Terahertz generation and detection.
• Femtochemistry.
• Two photon absorption measurements in non-fluorescent.