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Class-100
clean room, well-equipped for photonics device
processing |
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Class-100
clean room with the following major equipment:
a Zeiss photomask alignment system, a Denton
RF oxide sputter for SiO2 and ITO, a Headway
spin coating system, and a Denton High Vacuum
Evaporator and thin film deposition system |
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Five vibration isolated optical tables
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State-of-the-art
femptosecond, picosecond, and nanosecond laser
oscillators and amplifiers, including Ti:Sapphire,
Doubled Nd: YLF, covering visible and infrared |
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Powerful
cw Argon lasers |
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Auto
correlator and Pulse Scope |
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Half-meter
Imaging Monochromator Spectrograph with fiber
optic input and CCD detector |
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Laser
diode systems |
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High-speed
detectors and oscilloscope displays |
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Spectrophotometers,
photomultiplier detection systems |
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Spatial
light modulator |
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Chemical
and polymer thin film processing and optical
characterization equipment |
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Prof.
Hayden
Physics Department |
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High-power argon/ion lasers |
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Femtosecond
mode-locked lasers |
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Optical
parametric amplifiers |
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Diode
lasers, pump lasers, and associated optics |
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State-of-the-art
single-photon level fast-timing measurement
and high temporal resolution correlation measurement
and analysis facilities |
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Prof.
Shih
Physics Department |
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Fourier
Transform Deep Level Transient Spectrometer |
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Prof.
Summers
Physics Department |
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| Computational
Photonics Lab |
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State-of-the-art
workstations, servers, processors, analytical
software libraries and simulation programs |
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Prof.
Menyuk
CSEE Department |
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| Optoelectronics
Devices Laboratory |
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Chemically
Assisted Ion Beam Etching System, using
turbomolecular
pump and cold-cathode ion source |
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Optoelectronic
Device Testing Laboratory |
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Planar
Lightwave Circuit Testing and Packaging Laboratory |
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WDM
Networking Laboratory. the testbed has four
operational WDM wavelengths and consists of
three core switching nodes (CSNs), each of
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Prof.
Y.J. Chen
CSEE Department |
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Communication Networks Lab |
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Facilities: 10-40 Gigabits/sec single channel and WDM Optical Communications Transmission Laboratories. Capabilities of testing transmission over 30,000 km in a recirculationg loop configuration. Bit-error rate test equipment, high-speed sampling oscilloscopes, Raman and EDFA amplifiers. |
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Optical fiber line running down the I-95 corridor, for research related to this project. Enables connection directly to NASA and other government agencies to carry out sophisticated network experiments. |
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All-Raman amplified 500 km transmission test bed. It includes 250 channels for testing high channel count WDM transmission. This high performance system will be linked to our connection to other optical networks provided by the link down the I-95 corridor. |
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Other Facilities: The laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences: Access to the Government Networks ATDNET and BossNet for high-speed network experiments. |
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Nearby Companies and facilities: Ciena, Corvis, NASA, NSA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, NIH (which uses optical networks); Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Gould Fiber Optics, Brimrose. |
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Prof.
Carter
CSEE Department |
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| Photonics
Devices Laboratory |
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Closed-Cycle
Cryostation (12-320 K) |
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Photoluminescence
Selective-Excitation |
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Spectrocopy
System
This system incorporates:
Tunable Ti:Sapphire lasers (650-950 nm)
Argon-ion laser
Nd:Vanidate laser
3/4-meter spectrometer (0.3-25_m)
Extended range photomultiplier
Cooled intrinsic Ge detector
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Photo-reflectance
and Photo-transmission Spectroscopy System
(0.4-15_m) |
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Optical
Waveguide Measurement System |
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Hall-effect
Measurement System |
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Xray-Diffractometer |
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Scanning
Electron Microscope |
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Atomic
Force Microscope |
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Class-100
(400 ft2) and Class-1000 (300 ft2)
Cleanroom Facilities |
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JB-3
Photolithography System |
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Dual-Source
thermal Metals Evaporator System |
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Dual-Gun
Sputter Deposition System |
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Also
available are several commercial and custom
software packages for modeling: electronic
and optical properties of quantum-well systems,
thin-film systems and optical propagation |
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Epitaxial
Technologies: MBE deposition |
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Anderson
Engineering: Auger and LEED spectroscopy |
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LPS:
Dry-chemical etching, E-beam lithography,
MBE deposition |
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ARL:
Dry-chemical etching, E-beam evaporation,
Detector characterization |
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Prof.
Worchesky
Physics Department |
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| Optoelectronic
Devices Lab |
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MOCVD
crystal growth facilities |
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Lithography
and bonding facilities |
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Prof.
Choa
CSEE Department |
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| Ultrafast Optics & Optoelectronics Research & Teaching Facility |
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Equipped with state of the art laser systems, opto-electronic equipment and other basic optical and electro-optical components to investigate ultrafast photophysics and nonlinear optical properties. |
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Systems under study are bulk nanostructured and quantum well semiconductor structures, ultrashort pulses propagation in fibers and waveguides and high-speed lightwave systems. |
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Femtosecond laser systems : |
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Coherent femtosecond laser system: consists of a Ti:Sapphire oscillator, regenerative
amplifier and an optical parametric amplifier (OPA) |
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Repetition rate capability from single-shot to 300 kHz. |
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Typical pulsewidth ~ 120 femtosecond pulses across a continuous spectrum with wavelengths from 350 nm to 2.5 mm. |
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Picosecond laser systems: |
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Two Time-Bandwidth SESAMs (semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors) passively modelocked Nd:Vanadate lasers at 1064 nm (8W) and 1342 nm (4 W), extendable by frequency doubling to 532 and 671 nm respectively. Both lasers operate at a high repetition rate of 76 MHz and short pulse duration ofI 10 ps. |
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Spectra-Physics Ti:Sapphire laser - tunable from 750-900 nm, capable of operating at either 1.5 ps or 30 ps. |
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In the teaching lab: High-Q SESAM laser operating at 10ps, 1064 nm (4W) with a repetition rate of 76 MHz. |
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Trivista triple Raman spectrometer: |
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Contains a total of nine standard gratings utilizing three turrets that are capable of operating from 250 nm to 2000 nm in a continuous manner. The system comes with a CCD camera, an InGaAs linear array and an InGaAs detector all liquid nitrogen cooled. |
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The typical spectral resolution of the TriVista with the Spec-10 CCD camera is < 0.02 nm, all over the range, or 0.2 cm-1 (referred to 500 nm). Extreme stray light rejection allows Raman spectra well below 10 cm-1 apart from the Raleigh line of the laser. |
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Prof. Anthony Johnson
Dr. Elaine Lalanne
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