Expertise

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Our expertise lies - among others - in the following areas:

Experience

various spectroscopic techniques (absorption, LIF, quantum beat spectroscopy, photo/field-ionization)
laser development (development of external cavity diode lasers with extended mode-hop free tuning, various injection seeded 532 nm Nd:YAG pumped Ti:Sapphire lasers, novel intra-cavity second harmonic generation for type-II crystals, intra-cavity pulse modulation for linewidth narrowing of an Alexandrite laser, dual-wavelength injection seeding of a flashlamp pumped Ti:Sapphire, narrow linewidth fiber amplifier, optical parametric oscillator)
design, setup, and maintenance of HV and UHV chambers
design and setup of high temperature supersonic nozzles
design and setup of high-efficiency detectors for atoms
design and setup of electron/ion lenses
environmental sensing based on lasers
installation/programming of data acquisition systems (IEEE, DAC, FPGA based, Frame Grabber)
Monte-Carlo simulations, numerical methods

Special equipment of our group includes

various fiber amplifiers including fiber-coupled pump lasers
cw Ti:Sapphire lasers
injection seeded, pulsed Ti:Sapphire lasers with ns-pulse duration and Fourier transform limited linewidth (spectral coverage via non-linear frequency conversion 200 nm - 6000 nm)
injection seeded flashlamp pumpd Nd:YAG laser
external cavity diode lasers
DPSS laser
HeNe laser
UV enhanced EM-CCD camera
fast iCCD camera
various instruments for measurement and characterization of light (optical spectrum analyzer, digital oscilloscopes, power and energy meters, wavelength meter, Fabry-Perot interferometers, photon counters, boxcar integrators, etc.)