Acquisition of a Tunable, Ultrafast Laser Facility for Studies in Materials Science and Chemistry

0079774 Dickinson该奖项是对收购可调谐的超快激光设备的奖励，以扩展华盛顿州立大学(WSU)在材料物理和化学研究方面的现有能力。威斯康星州立大学的八名高产教师、他们的学生和他们的博士后研究员将使用这种仪器，他们都在先进材料研究领域工作。爱达荷大学的另一名研究人员也将使用该仪器。新仪器提供了一个完整的、多功能的光源，脉冲持续时间从皮秒到100飞秒，波长范围从250纳米(5电子伏)到3毫米(0.4电子伏)。这些光子能量和脉冲宽度的巨大变化对于材料研究来说是相当感兴趣的，因为它允许科学家探测许多现代和模型材料的基态和激发电子结构。受益于该仪器的研究包括努力了解激光解吸和烧蚀在薄膜合成和化学分析中的应用，激光损伤和表面改性，基本激光与表面的相互作用，非线性光谱研究，以及在波导、腔和块状材料中的非线性传播，聚合物光纤中的超快全光开关，以及与实验工作直接相关的理论研究。该奖项是为了奖励华盛顿州立大学获得一台可调谐的超快激光设备，以扩展现有的材料物理和化学研究能力。威斯康星州立大学的八名富有成效的学生、他们的学生以及从事先进材料研究领域的博士后研究员将使用这种仪器。爱达荷大学的一名科学家也将使用这些设备。新仪器将提供一个完整的、多功能的光源，在从紫外线到红外的光谱范围内，脉冲持续时间从80皮秒到100飞秒不等。受益于该仪器的研究包括努力了解激光解吸和烧蚀在薄膜合成和化学分析中的应用，激光损伤和表面改性，基本激光-表面相互作用，非线性光谱研究，以及在波导、腔和块状材料中的非线性传输，聚合物光纤中的超快全光开关，以及与这些实验工作直接相关的理论研究。

0079774DickinsonThis award is for the acquisition of a tunable, ultrafast laser facility to extend existing capabilities in materials physics and chemistry research at Washington State University (WSU). The instrumentation will be used by eight productive faculty from WSU, their students, and their postdoctoral fellows who are all working in areas of advanced materials research. The instrument will also be used by one additional researcher from the University of Idaho. The new instrument provides a complete, versatile light source that ranges in pulse duration from picoseconds down to 100 femtoseconds over a wavelength range from 250 nanometer (5 electron volts) to 3 mm (0.4 electron volts). These wide variations in photon energy and pulse width are of considerable interest for materials research because it allows scientists to probe both ground and excited electronic structure of many modern and model materials. Research benefiting from this instrumentation includes efforts to understand laser desorption and ablation as applied to thin-film synthesis and chemical analysis, laser damage and surface modification, fundamental laser-surface interactions, nonlinear spectroscopic studies, and nonlinear propagation in waveguides, cavities, and bulk materials, ultrafast all-optical switching in polymer optical fibers, and theoretical studies that relate directly to the experimental efforts.This award is for the acquisition of a tunable, ultrafast laser facility to extend existing capabilities in materials physics and chemistry research at the Washington State University. The instrumentation will be used by eight productive at WSU, their students, and their postdoctoral fellows who are working in areas of advanced materials research. A scientist from the University of Idaho will also use the equipment. The new instrument will provide a complete, versatile light source that ranges in pulse duration from a 80 picoseconds down to 100 femtoseconds over a spectral range from the ultraviolet to the infrared. Research benefiting from this instrumentation includes efforts to understand laser desorption and ablation as applied to thin-film synthesis and chemical analysis, laser damage and surface modification, fundamental laser-surface interactions, nonlinear spectroscopic studies, and nonlinear propagation in waveguides, cavities, and bulk materials, ultrafast all-optical switching in polymer optical fibers, and theoretical studies that relate directly to these experimental efforts.