Major equipments

• 50-fs mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser (Coherent, Mira900) (2)
• Regenerative Amplifier (Coherent, RegA9000)
• 10-fs mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser (Femtosource)
• Home-build 100-fs mode-locked Ti:sapphire laser with extended cavity
• Synchroscan Streak Camera
• Olympus microscope with adaptive optics and multiphoton beam scanning system
• Multichannel photon counting scalers (2)
• Time-correlated photon counting system
• APD photon counting detectors (2)
• Photon counting PMT (5)
• Adaptive pulse shaping & pulse characterization facility
• Fiber probe station (fiber coupler, photon counting detection system)
• Spin coating system
• High resolution spectrometers

Available on a time-sharing basis as needed:

• 200-fs mode-locked Nd:glass laser (1.05 microns)
• 250-KHz regenerative amplifier for generation of 80-fs 4-microjoule pulses and white-
light continuum • optical parametric amplifier providing 80-fs pulses from 400 nm to 2 microns at 250
kHz • 76-MHz optical parametric oscillator tunable around 1.3 microns
• 1-kHz 1-mJ Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier system
• flexible pump-probe femtosecond transient absorption / reflection / luminescence
correlation and upconversion setups (2 setups) • terahertz-bandwidth, coherent time-domain spectroscopy facility
• Optical multichannel analyser
• atomic-force microscope