Physics

Atomic and Molecular Laser Spectroscopy Laboratory

Tabletop metal chamber with pipes and a purple light inside
Table with laser and lenses covered by strip plastic from above.
Small verticle tower with lenses.
Laser on a table.
A cluster of lenses and a prism.
Close of view of a lense
Close view of a prism cube
Green laser passing through two lenses.

The objective of the research in the atomic and molecular laser spectroscopy laboratory is to gain knowledge about the basic properties of ions and neutral atoms and molecules, with a particular emphasis on the properties of molecules in electrical discharges.

A tunable CW diode laser with a bandwidth better than one MHz and stability on the order of 100 MHz per hour was designed and built in the laboratory.

Additional equipment includes a high-power, high-resolution, tunable, dye-pulsed laser pumped by the third harmonic of an Nd-YAG laser, along with electronics capable of processing events as fast as half a nanosecond and detecting a single photon.

Researchers

Jacek Borysow

Jacek Borysow

  • Interim Department Chair, Physics
  • Professor, Physics

Links of Interest

Specialties

  • Nonlinear Raman Spectroscopy