High Energy Lab
Lab contact: +81(0)98-966-1555
Location: Lab 2 A643
(Prep. Room A642)
In this laboratory, we produce our highest energy femtosecond pulses of 5 mJ (hence, "High Energy" lab) with a 1 kHz repetition rate from a Ti:Sapphire regenerative amplifier system. The high output power allows for a variety of nonlinear processes and generation of light from 240 nm to 20 µm as well as the Terahertz regime. The research in this lab utilizes Pump-Probe Spectroscopy in different domains of electromagnetic spectrum to study van der Waals materials [1-3], as well as interdisciplinary studies in neuroscience [4] and art conservation [5].
- B. M. K. Mariserla et al., Adv. Opt. Materials 3, 1551 (2015).
- S. Ghosh et al.,Sci. Rep 5, 11272 (2015).
- C. E. Petoukhoff et al., ACS Nano 10, 9899 (2016).
- T. Nakano et al., Scientific Reports 4, 5398 (2014).
- T. Harada et al., Materials 10, 107 (2017).
EXPERIMENTAL CAPABILITIES:
- Laser sources:
- Spectra Physics Spitfire Ace (800 nm, 1 kHz, 5 mJ, 70 fs)
- Spectra Physics MaiTai (800 nm, 42 MHz, 19 nJ, 40 fs)
- Nonlinear wavelength conversion:
- Light Conversion TOPAS (240 nm to 20 µm)
- THz generation by optical rectification (0.3 THz to 3.1 THz)
- Pulse compression and diagnosis:
- Swamp Optics pulse compressor
- Light Conversion TiPA autocorrelator
- Experimental setups:
- Transient absorption spectroscopy
- Two color pump probe
- THz time-domain spectroscopy and optical pump - THz probe
- Laser cutting for art conservation
- Laser ablation process
- Wide field two-photon microscope
- Micro pump probe
Page last updated on September 03, 2017 (BM/CP).