Facilities and Equipment

Laser and Coherence Sources

Femtosecond Coherent MIRA Ti:sapphire laser and REGA amplifier

Contact: Dr Marek Samoc

Clark MXR CPA 2001 femtosecond Ti:sapphire amplifier with Light Conversion TOPAS optical parametric generator

Contact: Dr Marek Samoc

Supercontinuum sources

Picosecond/Nanosecond Nd lasers

Contact: Prof. Barry Luther Davies

High resolution tunable dye laser and Ti:sapphire lasers

Photonic Materials Production

Glass chemistry laboratory for chalcogenide glasses (rocking and tube furnaces)

TEPLA plasma cleaner

Czochralski crystal growth facility

Thin Film Deposition and Photonic Device Fabrication

Thin film deposition:

Custom ultra-fast pulsed laser deposition (Contact: Dr Andrei Rode); e-beam and thermal deposition (Contact: Dr Douglas Bulla); and sputter deposition systems (Contact: Dr Hoe Tan (EME))

Lithography facilities:

Karl Suss MA6 mask aligner (Contact: Dr Steve Madden); access to Raith E-beam lithography system (Contact: Dr Hoe Tan (EME)); custom laser direct write lithography system.

Coating system

ExcelTeq SVG 8600 track coat/develop system. Contact: Dr Steve Madden

Oxford Plasmalab RIE 100 ICP dry etching system

Contact: Dr Duk Yong Choi

Access to customized Orsay Physics Focused Ion Beam Mill for nano-patterning

Contact: Darren Freeman

Characterisation

Access to Electron Microscopy and AFM facilities (EMU)

SEM, TEM etc.

SCI Filmtek 4000 wafer mapper

Contact: Dr Steve Madden

Metricon Prism Coupler

Contact: Dr Anna Samoc

Spectrophotometers

Shimadzu UV-Vis-IR spectrophotometer; Cary 5000 UV-Vis-IR spectrophotometer
Contact: Dr Anna Samoc

Z-scan setup for determining the third order optical nonlinearity

Contact: Dr Marek Samoc

Raman spectrometer

Contact: Prof. Barry Luther Davies

Optical Microscope with High Resolution Digital Camera

Clean Room Area.

Contact: Prof. Barry Luther Davies; Dr Steve Madden

SCI filmtek to characterise thin film

Dr Steve Madden working with coating track