MRI: Acquisition of a multi-wavelength femtosecond laser facility

新墨西哥州大学的这一重大研究基础设施收购支持超快激光设施的升级。 这笔赠款将提供一个激光放大器系统，该系统将在25飞秒脉冲中以1千赫的重复率产生两个毫焦耳的红外光脉冲。 该赠款还将支持购买光学参量发生器，这将允许在红外，可见光和紫外光谱区域产生具有类似脉冲持续时间和重复率的可调谐脉冲。 该设备将主要支持两个领域的研究，即测量闪烁体探测器的动态和测量介电薄膜对超短高功率光脉冲的响应。 在生物成像，场发射显微镜和工程纳米结构的测量领域与其他教师合作进行激光的其他研究。 此次收购将提高新墨西哥州大学在所有这些领域的竞争力。更广泛的影响涉及对物理学课程和光学科学与工程课程以及其他学术领域的光学物理本科生和研究生的教育和培训。

This Major Research Infrastructure acquisition at the University of New Mexico supports an upgrade of an ultrafast laser facility. The grant will provide a laser amplifier system which will produce two millijoule pulses of infrared light in 25 femtosecond pulses at a repetition rate of 1 kilohertz. The grant also will provide support for the purchase of a optical parametric generator, which will allow tunable pulses in the infrared, visible, and ultraviolet region of the spectrum with similar pulse duration and repetition rate to be produced. The equipment will primarily support research in two areas, measurement of the dynamics in scintillator detectors and measurements of the response of dielectric thin films to ultrashort high-power light pulses. Additional research with the laser in collaboration with additional faculty in the areas of biological imaging, field-emission microscopy, and measurements of engineered nanostructures. The acquisition will improve the university of New Mexico's competitiveness in all of these areas.The broader impacts involve education and training to undergraduates and graduate students in optical physics from both the Physics program and the Optical Science and Engineering program as well as from additional academic fields.