NWLEC Equipment

At LLEC

• Clarke MXR CPA 2010 1W Average power Femto Second Laser with 2 dedicated micro machining stations featuring a GSI scanning galvo and Aerotech XYZ stages.
• High Q IC1500 Pico Second Laser, 12ps, 2W Average Power, 1064nm, Aerotech 3 axis positioning system.
• Coherent Verdi V2 2W CW 532nm Nd:YVO4 single frequency laser used as a source for an Elliot Scientific custom designed inverted optical tweezers set-up.
• Veeco WYKO NT1100 optical profiler.
• Veeco CPII scanning probe microscope with NanoMove and Nano Lithography software options.
• Leitz optical microscope with Nikon objectives, Nikon 5MP digital camera and NIS-Elements D image analysis software.
• ZEEMAX Optical Design Software, Engineering Edition .
• Comsol Multiphysics Software, RF, Heat Transfer and ACDC Modules.
• Two AMD Opteron Quad Core High End Computers, 2x2.6Ghz 8Gb Ram.
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At LPRC

• Coherent Libra fs Ti:Sapphire Amplifier, 1W average power, 1mJ per pulse at 1kHz.
• GSI Lumonics Pulsemaster Excimer Laser, 80W average power at 248nm, with a repetition rate of 0-200Hz.
• Veeco WYKO NT1100 optical profiler.
• Teer Coatings POD2 Pin-on-Disc wear tester and BC-2 Ball Crater device.
• Buehler Micromet 5114 microindentation hardness testing system (1-200gf).
• Polyvar MET (Leica) Analytical Microscope (2000x) with iSolution Digital Image Analysis System.
• Two Aerotech XYZ micromachining stages and Linos-Zaber XYZ micropositioning system.
• Diagnostic equipment e.g. Spiricon Beam Profiler, Ocean Optics HR4000 Spectrometer, Two Stabilised probe Diode lasers, Swap Optics Grenouille 8-50 FROG, LeCroy 6100A Digital Storage Oscilloscope and a Canon EOS Camera System with Micro optics and imaging stand.
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