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