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LTL in Etcheverry Hall
Location and Workspace
Total working area: 2,000 sq. ft.
- Offices (#5144, at Etcheverry Hall)
- Lab. (#5115, #6162, #6186, at Etcheverry Hall)
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Equipment


Lasers
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1. Spectra-Physics/Newport Femtosecond Laser
including:
a) Tsunami diode pumped laser pumped mode-locked Ti:Sapphire oscillator <50 fs, tunable 720-850 nm.
b) Empower Nd:YLF pump laser for the regenerative amplifier,
c) Spitfire tunable Ti:Sapphire regenerative amplifier, ~1 mJ/pulse @ 1 kHz, 800 nm, <80 fs pulse duration.
d) 2ω and 3ω harmonics and an Optical Parametric Amplifier, tunable 1.1-3 µm, <130 fs.


2. IMRA FCPA Jewel D-400 fiber femtosecond laser, 650 nJ per pulse @ 1 MHz, 5 µJ per pulse @ 100 kHz, λ = 1,054 nm. 

3. TOPTICA FemtoFiber pro NIR laser, (1560 nm and 780 nm) 100 fs pulse width, 140 mW @ 780 nm. 

4. Continuum Surelite II-10 Nd:YAG laser, (10 Hz, 7 ns FWHM, 650 mJ @ 1064 nm, 300 mJ @ 532 nm, 100 mJ@ 355 nm, 80 mJ @ 266 nm). 

5. Spectra Physics Navigator high frequency nanosecond laser 40 ns pulse duration at 20 kHz (200 kHz maximum frequency) with the following harmonics: 18 W @ 1064 nm, 9 W @ 532 nm, 3.5 W @ 355 nm.

6. Tempest-10 New Wave Nd:YAG pulsed laser (10 Hz, 7 ns FWHM, 200 mJ @ 1064 nm, 100 mJ @   532 nm, 50 mJ @ 355 nm, 30 mJ @ 266 nm).

7. New Wave Polaris III-10 Nd:YAG pulsed laser, 90 mJ @ 1,064 nm, 50 mJ @ 532 nm.


8. Coherent Innova 90C-A6 Ar-ion laser, 6 W multi-line, 2.40 W @ 514.5 nm.

9. Synrad 48-2 CO2 laser, 25 W @ 10.6 μm. 

10. Lighthouse Sprout-G-5 W DPSS laser, 5 W @ 532 nm. 

11. Lighthouse Sprout-C-4 W DPSS laser, 4 W @ 532 nm. 

12. QI-Optiq diode lasers @ 405 and 800 nm.

13. Passat Compiler 355 ps laser, 160 µJ/pulse, 400 Hz, @ 355 nm. 

14. Kimmon IK He-Cd laser 25 mW @ 325 nm.

15. Surelite UV Nd:YAG laser, 4 mJ @ 213 nm.


The lasers are coupled into precision motion systems, including Aerotech 3D workstations (four systems), one PI 3D piezo nano-positioning system, one SCANLAB scanner, one Hamamatsu Spatial Light Modulator, various detectors, photon counters, several fast cameras and pulsed light sources.
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AFM Instruments
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​16.  XE-100 AFM/NSOM system from Park Instruments.
17.  Vistascope AFM system from Molecular Vista.
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Diagnostics

18. Renishaw inVia Basis Raman system. 
19. Gated ICCD camera, <2 ns minimum gate width and an Imaging Spectrograph and Monochromator for spectroscopic studies from Princeton Instruments. 
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Microscopes
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​20. Olympus IX71 inverted and BX43 upright microscopes.
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Other Equipment 

21. Semiconductor analyzer for device measurements. 
22. Solar cell simulator for solar cell evaluation. 
23. Lindberg nanowire growth furnace. 
24. Carbon nanotube (CNT) growth furnace. 
25. 12-bit FASTCAM high speed camera, 1,280X1,024 pixels @ 2,000 fps, 640X240 pixels @ 10,000 fps. 


Experimental Setups at LTL include:

​26. Amplified femtosecond laser-based micromachining system. 
27. High repetition rate ultrafast laser micromachining. 
28. Multi-photon polymerization apparatus.
29. Optical emission spectroscopy, Rayleigh scattering spectroscopy, laser-induced-fluorescence (LIF) for nanosecond and femtosecond laser materials interactions.
30. Pump-and-Probe ultra-fast optical diagnostics and time-resolved imaging. 
31. AFM coupled with the femtosecond laser for apertureless NSOM nanomachining and imaging.
32. AFM/NSOM second harmonic generation (SHG), Photon-induced Force Microscopy (PiFM) scattering NSOM (s-NSOM).
33. Time domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) measurement system.
34. Blue diode laser annealing system.
35. Laser-Assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition (LA-CVD) apparatus for growth of Si, Ge and III-V material. nanostructures at the UC Berkeley MARVELL nanofabrication facility. Various dopant gases are coupled into the apparatus.
36. Organic semiconductor patterning.

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