Lasers / Optical Parametric Oscillators and Amplifiers

Ultrafast laser systems: (a) Ti:sapphire oscillators and amplifiers [Home-built and Commercial (Tsunami), fsec & psec)] (b) Periodically Poled Lithium Niobate OPO (Home-built, fsec and psec) (c) MICRA femtosecond oscillator (tunable around 800 nm; 15-150 fsec pulses) (d) Legend, Ultrafast amplifiers (2 ps and 40 fs) (e) Light Conversion Optical Parametric Amplifier + Difference Frequency Generation units (2 ps and 40 fs) tunable from 230 nm to 20.0 microns

Other laser systems: (a) Innolas Nd:YAG + Radiant Dye laser (tunable from 300 nm to 3.0 microns), (b) cwOPO (PPLN) (c) Nd:YAG (nsec and psec; COHERENT), Nd:YVO4, (d) Tunable organic Dye (home-built), He-Ne, Ar+ ion, Tunable Diode lasers (Agilent, JDSU Agility).

Optical Instruments

Optical Spectrum Analyzers (Agilent, IST Rees), Agilent Mainframe 8164A, Optical and Stereo-Zoom Microscopes, High-resolution visible CCD (Q-Imaging) and infrared Vidicon Cameras, IR Viewers, Liquid nitrogen cooled Mercury Cadmium Telluride detector, Power/Energy Meters, Visible and near-infrared Monochromators, Si/Ge/InGaAs Photodiodes, UV-Visible USB spectrometer (Ocean Optics); Metricon Prism Coupler (2010 model), Single Shot Autocorrelator, Laser Beam Profiler (Sphiricon), High-energy laser attenuators (ns, fs).

Data-acquisition and Processing Instruments

Lock-in Amplifier, Boxcar Averager, Oscilloscopes, Data acquisition, and GPIB interfaces.

Computational

Good acquaintance with BeamPROP (for photonic component properties simulation), SRIM (Stopping Range of Ions in Matter), MATHCAD, MATLAB, ORIGIN, IMSL, LABVIEW, MS- WORD, POWERPOINT, EXCEL, and SNLO. Good knowledge of programming with C, FORTRAN languages and different computer operating systems (Itanium, Pentium, UNIX, Linux).

Experimental

Degenerate Four Wave Mixing in solutions / thin films using nsec / psec / fsec pulses, Z-scan, Electric Field Induced Second Harmonic Generation, Pump-probe Techniques, Second Harmonic Generation/Sum Frequency Generation/Difference Frequency Generation in Nonlinear Optical Crystals/Waveguides, Linear and Nonlinear Waveguide characterization, Thin film coating, Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy, THz generation & Detection.

Miscellaneous

Class 1000 Clean room experience, Six-axis Waveguide Manipulator (Newport and Elliot Scientific), Nano-Imprinter (Obducat), Spin Coating Unit [Cost Effective Equipment (CEETM) Model 100CB]