OPTICS OF SOFT MATTER: Facilities

Our laboratories are distributed over three rooms (Sample fabrication Lab and Optics & Characterization Labs) in at level Q155 of SIMAU building.

Available Instruments:

  • Electronics
    • Oscilloscope: TEKTRONIX, TBS2074, 4 CHAN 70MHz, 1GSPS oscilloscope
    • Arbitrary Waveform Gen: Agilent 33511B, 1CHAN 10MHz, 1mVpp-10Vpp
    • Digital multimeter: Agilent 34401A, 6.5 digits resolution
  • DAQ systems
    • NI cDAQ-9185 (NI CompactDAQ) ethernet chassis with 4 slots
    • NI-9215 4-Channel Voltage Input Module (±10 V, 100 kS/s/ch, 16-Bit, Simultaneous Input)
  • DC power supplies
    • SPS-606 (ISO-TECH BENCH POWER SUPPLY DIGITAL 500W) 1 CHAN 0-60V 0-6A
    • EL302T (TTI -Thurlby Thandar Instruments Power Supplies DC 125W) bench power supply,3 chan 2 x 30V/2A + 5V/1A
  • Microscopy
    • Zeiss Axioscope up-right microscope
    • Olympus CKX41 inverted microscope
    • CalCTec hot stage for microscopy
  • Coherent Source
    • Coherent Innova 90C
    • MellesGriot HeNe Lasers (3X) 05-LPH-151 (15mW) @632nm, (1X) 05-LHP-321 (5mW) @632nm
    • Coherent Genesis MX532-500 Optically pumped semiconductor laser system @532nm, 500mW
    • TOPTICA DL 100 semiconductor laser @405nm, 13mW
  • Optomechanics
    • Newport URS1000CC (2) high precision rotation stage &Newport ESP300 universal motion controller.
    • PI M-605 100 PI high precision linear stage & PI Mercury C-863 DC Motor Controller
  • Light analysis tools & Imaging
    • Spectrometer Ocean Optics S2000
    • Halogen fiber-coupled sources (2X), HL-2000-HP-FHSA, HL-2000-FHSA
    • Camera Canon EOS 750D
    • CMOS camera Basler acA2500-60uc (2X)
  • Sample fabrication laboratory:
    • 26-1K Mercury exposure system for UV curing
    • Transonic 310 ultrasonic bath
    • RX3 Vortex Mixer (Velp Scientifica)
    • Arex Heating Magnetic Stirrer (Velp Scientifica)
    • Heidolph Vibramax 100, shaker