Watson's Equipment and Facilities Page

Picosecond laser laboratory
This laboratory is currently equipped with a synchronously-pumped dye laser system which provides 10 ps pulses with 30 nJ energy at a repetition rate of 4 MHz, including:

Quantronix 416 cw mode-locked YAG laser, frequency doubled

Coherent 701-3 dye laser with cavity dumper

Textronix 7854 digitizing oscilloscope with sampling units

Numerous ultrafast optical detectors

Prism shaker autocorrelator, 5'x10' optical table

Tunable cw laser laboratory

Spectra-Physics 2020 argon ion laser and 375 dye laser

Coherent 890 Ti-Sapphire laser

EG&G PAR and Stanford Research photon counting electronics

Numerous Hamamatsu photomultipliers with cooled housings

Zeiss AxioVert 100 inverted microscope

4'x10' optical table

Comments, suggestions, or requests to ghw@udel.edu.