LAS&O - Laser & Optics

Louvain-La-Neuve

Optical components: camera, mirrors, lenses     High resolution and visible spectrometer     Buffer gas cooling (molecular spectral signatures measurement at different temperatures)     Metrological distance measurement

Mission

The goal of the LAS&O technology platform is threefold

  • to provide support to unexperienced people who are interested in optical methods for their own research
  • to lend small optical equipments (spectrometer, powermeter, ...) to occasional user
  • to gather large optical equipments

Expertise

Long experience with the realisation of optical devices (interferometers,  deflectometer, electro-optic sampling, microscopy, etc).

Equipment

► Lasers

  • Femtosecond laser: Coherent MIRA 900-F, 9200 Pulse Picker, Harmonic generator (SHG-THG)
    • Wavelength: 700-1000 nm
    • Repetion rate: 76Mhz -  Pulse picker (9.5 Khz to 4.75 Mhz, external trigger)
    • Pulse duration = 100fs
    • Power
      • 1.5W @ 850 nm
      • 11mW @425 nm
      • 2.2 mW @ 280 nm
  • Tunable high energy nanosecond laser chain
    • Spectral range: IR to UV
    • Repetion rate=30Hz
  • Continuum Powerlight Precision II
    • 1.6J (10ns) @1064nm
    • 800mJ (7ns) @532nm
    • 400mJ (5ns) @355nm
  • Continuum ND600
    • typically 100mJ
    • Spectral range: 420-740nm
    • Doubling + Mixing: down to 210nm (typically 20mJ)
  • Argon laser: Coherent Innova 400-15
    • CW
    • Power: 15W all visible lines, 7W@514nm, 6W@488nm, 3W all UV lines
  • Ring dye laser: Coherent CR-699
    • Monomode
    • Power: ~500mW
    • Spectral range: 540-700nm
  • CW Tunable Ti-Sapphire laser: Spectra-Physics 3900S
    • Spectral range: 700-1100nm
    • Power: 2W (wide band)
  • SuperContinuum: Fianium SC450-4
    • Spectral range: 460nm-2200nm
    • Total power=4W, visible power>600mW
    • Average Spectral Power Density > 2mW/nm
    • Repetition rate=40MHz
    • Pulse duration=6ps
  • Dual-Head Nd-YAG laser
    • Repetion rate=15Hz
  • Lambdameter: Burleigh
    • "Pulsed Wavemeter"
    • 400-1100nm
    • 7 digits

► Optical components

  • Optics: lenses, polarizers, mirrors...
  • Optomechanics:  translation & rotation stages, mounts, posts...
  • Detectors: powermeter, photodiodes, CCD cameras...
  • Spectrometers
  • Isolated optical tables, breadboards

► TFL lab equipment

  • Dual-Head Nd-YAG laser
  • 2 PCO cameras for PIV
  • High-speed camera (1000 1024x1024 frames /sec)
  • LDV 2D laser