Techniques and Equipment

Major Research Techniques

• Spectroscopy
• Multi-Colour and White Light Pump-probe (femtoseconds to seconds)
• Multi-Colour Spectrally Resolved Three-Pulse Photon Echo Peak Shift
• Femtosecond Coherent Raman Scattering (fs-CSRS, fs-CARS)
• Femtosecond Up-Conversion (Coming Soon!!!)
• Microscopy
• One- and Two-Photon Laser Scanning Confocal FLIM
• Confocal Deep UV (<< 400 nm) Excitation of Endogenous Fluorescence for FLIM
• Time Resolved Evanescent Wave Induced Fluorescence for FLIM and SLIM
• Single Molecule Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy
• Time-Resolved Fluorescence Spectroscopy (Bulk)

Equipment

• Femtosecond (Coherent Amplified System)
• A mode-locked titanium sapphire laser (Mira-Seed: 20 fs, 76 MHz, 0.5 W)
• A chirped-pulse regenerative-amplifier (RegA9050: <30 fs, 10-250 kHz, 0.1-2.5 W)
• Two optical parametric amplifiers (OPA9050: ~30 fs, [>nJ] 400 nm, [~0.15 nJ] 480-700 nm, [~20 pJ] 900-2300 nm)
• Femtosecond (High-Repetition)
• A cavity-dumped mode-locked titanium sapphire laser (Mira 900/PulseSwitch: ~120 fs, 76 MHz and 54 MHz to 200 Hz, 710-900 nm, ~40 nJ)
• Doubler and Tripler (240-300 nm, 350-450 nm)
• Optical Parametric Oscillator (APE: intracavity doubled)
• Picosecond
• Time-Bandwidth Products Cheetah X, frequency doubled picosecond Nd:Vanadate laser
• Two cavity-dumped dye lasers (Spectra Physics)
• Nanosecond
• Q-Switched Nd:YAG (Continuum NY-61)
• Optical parametric oscillator (Casix)
• Microscopes
• Laser Scanning Confocal
• TIRF
• Single Molecule
• Misc
• Liquid nitrogen/helium cryostats for low temperature measurements using any of the above techniques