The Laser Plasma and AMO group Laboratory Facilities at DCU

1. The group occupy just over 200 sq-m of laboratory space in the Physics Building and 100 sq-m in the new National bio-analytical Research Facility (NRF) building. The physics space is divided up into a number of dedicated spaces designed to carry out our main mission of the development and application of diagnostics for pure and applied atomic and laser plasma physics. The ultrafast spectroscopy laboratory, opening Q4 2019, has a dedicated 75 sq-m space in the NRF, a 3,000 sq-m building opened in 2015. We also have access to the NCPST core facilities and a range of nanoscale fabrication and characterization facilities in the NRF - https://www.dcu.ie/research/infrastructure/access-page

1. Colliding Laser-Produced Plasma Laboratory (Physics)

· Colliding plasma target chamber system

· 1 x Surelite Q-switched Nd-YAG laser (800 mJ @ 1064 nm to 120 mJ @ 266 nm)

· 1 x Surelite Q-switched Nd-YAG laser (400 mJ @ 1064 nm to 50 mJ @ 266 nm)

· 1 x Surelite OPO (up to 40 mJ in 4ns, tuning range 420 – 2000 nm)

· Reflectron Time of Flight mass analysis system

· Nomarski interferometer

· ICCD Plasma Imaging System

· 0.5m UV-VIS Spectrometer with ICCD Readout

· Andor Mechelle Echelle Spectrometer with ICCD Readout

· Acton 1 meter UV-VIS monchromator with PMT readout

· Superfast (~150 psec) MCP-PMT detector

2. Multichannel Vacuum-UV Laser Induced Plasma Emission and Absorption Spectroscopy Laboratory (Physics)

· 1 meter Normal Incidence (Acton VM521configured as a spectrometer)

· Andor back-illuminated VUV CCD (1K x 0.25K x 26 um pixels) readout

· Surelite Q-switched Nd-YAG laser (800 mJ @ fundamental in 8ns)

· Spectron SL404 Q-switched laser (300 mJ @ fundamental in 15ns)

3. Time Resolved Vacuum-UV Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) Laboratory (NRF)

· 1 meter Normal Incidence (Acton VM521configured as a monochromator)

· Surelite Q-switched Nd-YAG laser (800 mJ @ fundamental in 8ns)

· Single channel VUV detector with nanosecond time resolution

4. Extreme-UV and Soft X-ray Emission and Absorption Spectroscopy Laboratory (Physics)

· 2.2 meter EUV Grazing Incidence (McPherson 200 series) with gated EUV MCP-PDA readout (Kentech/EG&G).

· 2 x Spectron SL800 Q-switched Nd-YAG lasers (800 mJ @ fundamental in 15ns)

· 1 x Spectron 858G Q-switched Nd-YAG laser (2000 mJ @ fundamental in 16 ns)

5. Pulsed Laser Deposition Laboratory (Physics)

Main Equipment

· Multiport Neocera PLD system with RHEED and Atomic Ion Source

· Multiport Neocera PLD system for general applications

· Powerlite 9000 series laser with all harmonics

6. Ultrafast Science Laboratory in the Nano-bio-analytical Research Facility (NRF) – Coming Q4 2019.

· Coherent Micra oscillator (~ 30 fs, 80 MHz, 400 mW) with Legend Elite amplifier (35 fs, 3 mJ, 1kHz)

· Coherent Astrella amplifier (30 fs, 7 mJ, 1kHz) with 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th harmonics

· Coherent OperaSolo OPAs (280 – 2000 nm) and (2000 nm to 12,000 nm)

· Newport TAS Ultrafast Transient Absorption Spectrometer (320 – 1600 nm)

· PhaseTech Spectroscopy Transient 2D-IR (2um to 8 um)

· Wiley-McLaren Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer

· Ion Sector Analyser

All laboratories are individually equipped with multiple Delay Gate Generators (Stanford DG535 and/or Quantum) and fast Digital Oscilloscope (Tektronix TDS series, 300 MHz/ 2.5 Gigasamples/sec). A LeCroy 9262C, 3 GHz, 10 Gigasamples/sec is also available as are faster scopes from Liam Barry’s group in Electronic Engineering. In addition we have access to many NRF and NCPST facilities such as XRD, AFM, STM, High resolution FTIR, STED, FLIM, etc.

Other unassigned equipment includes:

· 1 x EKSPLA 312P Q-switched/SBS Compressed Nd-YAG laser (typ. 300 mJ @ fundamental in 170 psec)

· 1 x JK Lasers Q-switched Ruby laser (1500 mJ @ fundamental in 25ns)