Table-top laser systems installed in the FELBE user labs
Laser system |
Pulse |
Energy |
Wavelength range |
Repetition rate |
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Femtosecond Ti-sapphire laser with optical parametric oscillator | 80 fs | 10 nJ | 730 – 870 nm |
78 MHz |
200 fs | 1 nJ | 1.1 – 3.2 μm | ||
Picosecond Ti-sapphire laser | 2 ps | 30 nJ | 730 – 980 nm | 78 MHz |
Femtosecond Ti-sapphire laser with regenerative amplifier, optical parametric amplifier, and difference frequency mixer | 40 fs | 5 µJ | 800 nm |
100 – 250 kHz |
50 fs | 160 nJ | 1.2 – 2.4 µm | ||
100 fs | 10 nJ | 2.6 - 10 µm | ||
35 fs | 30 nJ | 800 nm | 78 MHz | |
Femtosecond Ti-sapphire laser amplifier, dual optical parametric amplifier, SHG and DFG | < 35 fs | 6 mJ | 800 nm |
1 kHz |
< 100 fs | > 200 µJ | 1.15 - 2.6 µm | ||
< 100 fs | > 40 µJ | 470 nm - 1.15 µm | ||
15 fs | 4 nJ | 800 nm | 78 MHz |
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All lasers can be synchronized to the FEL.
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In addition, the fs laser systems are suitable for generating broad-band THz pulses, which can be used for probing the dynamics excited with FEL pulses (FEL-pump - broadband THz-probe).