Optics research facilities
For information relating to these facilities, please contact: A/Prof Robert Scholten, r.scholten at physics.unimelb.edu.auTel. (03) 8344 5457.
School/Faculty workshops
Mechanical workshops: High-tech design, prototyping, precision machining, computer-controlled milling and turning, wire-cutting, inert-gas welding.
Electronics workshops: Design and prototyping, analogue and digital.
Lasers
- Coherent 899-21 single-frequency ring laser, with Ti:sapphire and dye gain media
- Coherent Sabre 10 watt argon ion pump laser
- 500 mW 780nm tapered amplifier semiconductor laser
- NewFocus 10mW 780nm tunable diode laser
- 100 mW Frequency doubled Nd:YAG
- 100 mW Argon ion
- 25W CO2 laser
- Diode lasers and controllers (many)
- He-Ne lasers
X-ray equipment
- Stable CE-certified high-frequency 18 kW, 60 kV rotating anode source
- 5 micron spot size, 160 kV, Feinfocus X-ray source
- Other medium and soft X-ray sources
- High Vacuum systems
- State-of-the-art curved crystal Johann spectrometer
- State-of-the-art 2D Backgammon X-ray detector
- Double-flat crystal monochromators and analysers
- A variety of detectors including X-ray CCD cameras, Si-PIN detectors
- Scintillators, and X-ray photographic cameras
UHV Rb beam line
Imaging systems
- 12-bit and 16-bit visible and x-ray CCD cameras
- Olympus microscopes
Electronic and optical equipment
- Lock-in amplifiers
- Spatial light modulators
- Oscilloscopes
- Burleigh 7-digit wavemeter
- Optical spectrum analysers
- Optical power meters
Computers
- DEC Alpha workstations
- Personal computer
- \Black and white and colour postscript printers
- 4mm tape drive
- 650MB magneto-optical disk drive