KAOS Group Equipment
Optical and Optoelectronic Equipment
Tables and Lasers
- seven 4'x10' optical tables
- 50 fsec tunable KHz regen (May 98)
- 5W Diode pumped doubled Nd:YVO pumping Ti:sapphire oscillator
- 50fsec KHz flashlamp pumped doubled YAG pumping Ti:sapphire regen
- Tunable femtosecond TOPAS OPA
- three 6 Watt Argon lasers (Coherent 90-6, 305, 306)
- 400mW Diode Pumped Doubled Nd:Yag
- 5W Verdi Diode Pumped Doubled Nd:Yag (due in August 98)
- fsec Ti:saphire laser
- numerous HeNe lasers
- numerous laser diodes, including 12 fiber coupled computer controlled
850nm diodes modulatable to 200MHz
Active Optoelectronic Devices
- 5 optically-addressed nematic liquid crystal spatial light modulator
- twenty photorefractive crystals including SBN, KNSBN, BaTiO3, LiNbO3, BSO
- 6 TeO2 Bragg cells (50-150MHz)
- a dozen acoustooptic modulators (50-150MHz)
- NEOS acoustooptic tunable filter
- Quantum Tech 100MHz EO phase modulator
- Epson liquid crystal projection TV and Kopin 640x480 panel
- high resolution CRT scanner
- Displaytech high speed 10x10 electrically addressed FLC shutter array
- 3 Displaytech 256x256 high speed binary SLMs (3KHz)
- image intensifier
- Newport thermoplastic holocamera
- a dozen CCDs and monitors
- several S-VHS VCRs (Panasonic AG1970)
- Panasonic WS-MX30 video editing station
- FJW IR viewer
- Light Control Inst laser diode controller
- 12 computer-controlled high-speed fiber-coupled 850nm laser diodes
- 12 high-speed fiber coupled amplified detectors
- 5 150MHz amplified detectors
- 2 100KHz New Focus variable gain amplified detectors
- 4 computer controlled picowatt power meters (Newport 835, 1835, UDT 5380)
- Burleigh SA-800-B scanning Fabry-Perot interferometer
- Burleigh Wavemeter
- Conoptics 711 optical isolator
- Ocean Optics fiber optic spectrometer
- 6 electronic shutters
- 2 optical choppers
- 3 Piezomirrors
Optical Instruments and components
- Nikon Optiphot-2 reflection/transmission polarizing microscope
- Fujikura Fiber cleaver
- Polaroid microcam
- Nikon F3 camera
- 5 controllers and a dozen motorized positioning stages
- more than \$400K of optical mounting hardware
- complete inventory of laser-quality
lenses,
waveplates,
beamsplitter,
prisms,
polarizers,
filters,
mirrors,
apertures,
and gratings.
Computer Network
- 9 Sun Sparc stations (1's, 2's, IPC's, ELC's, LX and a 10)
- 2 DEC Alpha 300, 1 DEC Alpha 400
- 2 Macintish Quadras (700, 800)
- 8 networked PC instrument controllers
- frame grabbers, data acquisition cards, GPIB, and RS232 cards
- 3 laser printers (600DPI, 1200DPI)
- 13GB disk
- Exabyte 10GB backup tape drive
- Magneto optic drive
- 10Base-T network with 4 hubs
Electronic Test Equipment
- 4 150 MHz digital oscilloscopes (Lecroy 9304M, 9304, 9410, Tek TDS420)
- Tektronix 1GHz arbitrary waveform generator
- Lecroy 9109 200 MHz dual-channel arbitrary waveform generator
- 3 40 MHz arbitrary waveform generators
- Stanford SR850 digital lock-in amplifier
- numerous power supplies
- HP 8505 network analyzer
- 5 spectrum analyzers (Tek 494P)
- 12 analog oscilloscopes
- 3 scope cameras
- numerous function generators HP8116
- numerous RF oscillators
Chemistry Equipment
- Oxford Optistat bath cryostat
- fume hood
- vacuum oven
- hot plates
- balances
- water bath
- numerous photosensitive dyes