Labs

Graduate students Jason Slattery, left, and Martin Stevens, discussing an ultrafast laser in one of Professor Smirl's labs.	A close-up view of some components on an optics table in another of Professor Smirl's labs. Labs with ultrafast lasers usually have large optical tables loaded with large numbers of optical components like these.	Professor Kleiber, right, with graduate student Johannes Abate, discussing the operation of a pulsed tunable dye laser. They use laser spectroscopy to probe quantum effects in molecular collisions.
Graduate student Scott Anson in one of Professor Boggess's ultrafast optics labs.	Professor Boggess, right, with postdoctoral researcher Kimberley Hall and graduate students Kenan Gundogdu and Emrah Altunkaya, discussing the setup for their experiments, which use ultrafast lasers.	Professor Skiff, right, with an undergraduate student, planning how to install the detection optics for a laser-induced fluorescence diagnostic used in their plasma experiments.
Professor Skiff, right, with group members, in the room where an argon-pumped tunable dye laser produces a beam used in plasma experiments in the adjoining room.	Part of an optics setup for imaging microparticles immersed in a plasma, in one of Professor Goree's labs. To image the microparticles, they are illuminated by low-power lasers and viewed with cameras. To manipulate them, a high-power laser is used, pushing the particles in the direction of the laser beam.	Professor Prineas, right, with a graduate student, inspecting a diffraction grating that will be used in their ultrafast optics lab.
Professor Andersen, right, with graduate student Hai Ming Chen, in their nonlinear optics lab, where they study topics such as the nonlinear optical crossbar switch.	Professor Wohlgenannt's group uses the photolithography lab, which is an IATL user facility, to prepare organic semiconductor samples.	To characterize his organic semiconductor samples, Professor Wohlgennant uses this cw-laser setup.

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