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LABORATORY FACILITIES AVAILABLE FOR UMBC PHOTONICS RESEARCH

Equipment
Description
Contact
Clean Room
Class-100 clean room, well-equipped for photonics device processing
CSEE Department Faculty
Clean Room
Class-100 clean room with the following major equipment: a Zeiss photomask alignment system, a Denton RF oxide sputter for SiO2 and ITO, a Headway spin coating system, and a Denton High Vacuum Evaporator and thin film deposition system
Physics Department Faculty
Photonics Lab
Five vibration isolated optical tables
State-of-the-art femptosecond, picosecond, and nanosecond laser oscillators and amplifiers, including Ti:Sapphire, Doubled Nd: YLF, covering visible and infrared
Powerful cw Argon lasers
Auto correlator and Pulse Scope
Half-meter Imaging Monochromator Spectrograph with fiber optic input and CCD detector
Laser diode systems
High-speed detectors and oscilloscope displays
Spectrophotometers, photomultiplier detection systems
Spatial light modulator
Chemical and polymer thin film processing and optical characterization equipment
Prof. Hayden
Physics Department

 

Quantum Optics Lab
High-power argon/ion lasers
Femtosecond mode-locked lasers
Optical parametric amplifiers
Diode lasers, pump lasers, and associated optics
State-of-the-art single-photon level fast-timing measurement and high temporal resolution correlation measurement and analysis facilities
Prof. Shih
Physics Department
Semiconductor Lab 
Fourier Transform Deep Level Transient Spectrometer
Prof. Summers
Physics Department
Computational Photonics Lab
State-of-the-art workstations, servers, processors, analytical software libraries and simulation programs
Prof. Menyuk
CSEE Department
Optoelectronics Devices Laboratory
Chemically Assisted Ion Beam Etching System, using turbomolecular pump and cold-cathode ion source
Optoelectronic Device Testing Laboratory
Planar Lightwave Circuit Testing and Packaging Laboratory
WDM Networking Laboratory. the testbed has four operational WDM wavelengths and consists of three core switching nodes (CSNs), each of which is connected with two edge switching nodes (ESNs).
Prof. Y.J. Chen
CSEE Department
Optical Communication Networks Lab
Facilities:  10-40 Gigabits/sec single channel and WDM Optical Communications Transmission Laboratories.  Capabilities of testing transmission over  30,000 km in a recirculationg loop configuration. Bit-error rate test equipment, high-speed  sampling oscilloscopes, Raman and EDFA amplifiers.
Optical fiber line running down the I-95 corridor, for research related to this project.  Enables connection directly to NASA and other government agencies to carry out sophisticated network experiments.

All-Raman amplified 500 km transmission test bed. It includes 250 channels for testing high channel count WDM transmission. This high performance system will be linked to our connection to other optical networks provided by the link down the I-95 corridor. 

Other Facilities: The laboratory for Telecommunication Sciences: Access to the Government Networks ATDNET and BossNet for high-speed network experiments.
Nearby  Companies and facilities: Ciena, Corvis, NASA, NSA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory,  NIH (which uses optical networks); Lockheed  Martin, Northrop Grumman, Gould Fiber Optics,  Brimrose.
Prof. Carter
CSEE Department
Photonics Devices Laboratory
Closed-Cycle Cryostation (12-320 K)
Photoluminescence Selective-Excitation

Spectrocopy System
This system incorporates:
Tunable Ti:Sapphire lasers (650-950 nm)
Argon-ion laser
Nd:Vanidate laser
3/4-meter spectrometer (0.3-25_m)
Extended range photomultiplier
Cooled intrinsic Ge detector

Photo-reflectance and Photo-transmission Spectroscopy System (0.4-15_m)
Optical Waveguide Measurement System
Hall-effect Measurement System
Xray-Diffractometer
Scanning Electron Microscope
Atomic Force Microscope
Class-100 (400 ft2) and Class-1000 (300 ft2)
Cleanroom Facilities
JB-3 Photolithography System
Dual-Source thermal Metals Evaporator System
Dual-Gun Sputter Deposition System
Also available are several commercial and custom software packages for modeling: electronic and optical properties of quantum-well systems, thin-film systems and optical propagation

Local Available Facilities

Epitaxial Technologies: MBE deposition
Anderson Engineering: Auger and LEED spectroscopy
LPS: Dry-chemical etching, E-beam lithography, MBE deposition
ARL: Dry-chemical etching, E-beam evaporation, Detector characterization
Prof. Worchesky
Physics Department
Optoelectronic Devices Lab
MOCVD crystal growth facilities
Lithography and bonding facilities
Prof. Choa
CSEE Department
Ultrafast Optics & Optoelectronics Research & Teaching Facility
Equipped with state of the art laser systems, opto-electronic equipment and other basic optical and electro-optical components to investigate ultrafast photophysics and nonlinear optical properties.
Systems under study are bulk nanostructured and quantum well semiconductor structures, ultrashort pulses propagation in fibers and waveguides and high-speed lightwave systems.
   
  Femtosecond laser systems :
  Coherent femtosecond laser system: consists of a Ti:Sapphire oscillator, regenerative  
amplifier and an optical parametric amplifier (OPA)
 

 

Repetition rate capability from single-shot to 300 kHz.
Typical pulsewidth ~ 120 femtosecond pulses across a continuous spectrum with wavelengths from 350 nm to 2.5 mm.
   
 

Picosecond laser systems:

   
Two Time-Bandwidth SESAMs (semiconductor saturable absorber mirrors) passively modelocked Nd:Vanadate lasers at 1064 nm (8W) and 1342 nm (4 W), extendable by frequency doubling to 532 and 671 nm respectively. Both lasers operate at a high repetition rate of 76 MHz and short pulse duration ofI 10 ps.
Spectra-Physics Ti:Sapphire laser - tunable from 750-900 nm, capable of operating at either 1.5 ps or 30 ps.
In the teaching lab: High-Q SESAM laser operating at 10ps, 1064 nm (4W) with a repetition rate of 76 MHz.
   
 

Trivista triple Raman spectrometer:

   
Contains a total of nine standard gratings utilizing three turrets that are capable of operating from 250 nm to 2000 nm in a continuous manner. The system comes with a CCD camera, an InGaAs linear array and an InGaAs detector all liquid nitrogen cooled. 
The typical spectral resolution of the TriVista with the Spec-10 CCD camera is < 0.02 nm, all over the range, or 0.2 cm-1 (referred to 500 nm).  Extreme stray light rejection allows Raman spectra well below 10 cm-1 apart from the Raleigh line of the laser.

 

Prof. Anthony Johnson
Dr. Elaine Lalanne


Center for Advanced Studies in Photonics Research
1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250
410-455-8740 • caspr@umbc.edu