MRI: Acquisition of a multi-wavelength femtosecond laser facility

新墨西哥大学的这项重大研究基础设施收购支持超快激光设备的升级。该拨款将提供一个激光放大器系统，该系统将以1千赫兹的重复频率以25飞秒脉冲产生2毫焦耳红外光脉冲。该拨款还将为购买光学参数发生器提供支持，该发生器将允许在光谱的红外、可见光和紫外区域产生具有相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，闪烁体探测器的动力学测量和介电薄膜对超短高功率光脉冲的响应测量。与生物成像、场发射显微镜和工程纳米结构测量领域的其他教员合作进行激光的额外研究。此次收购将提高新墨西哥大学在所有这些领域的竞争力。更广泛的影响包括对物理项目、光学科学与工程项目以及其他学术领域的光学物理学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.