Laboratories and Facilities

Instrumentation

• • Fianium supercontinuum laser (pulsed laser, 20MHz rep rate, emission spectrum 400 - 2200 nm, >2mW/nm)

    • Pulse picker

    • 2 Acousto Optic Tunable Filters (AOTFs)

    • 8 Filters wheel

  • Diode green laser (532 nm, 0.4W)

  • Diode blue laser (447nm, 1W)

  • HeNe laser (633nm, 22mW)

  • Various diode lasers

  • Custom photoacoustic/nephelometer cell (for aerosol absorption and total scattering measurements)

  • TSI Portable condensation particle counter (for particles between ~30 and 1000nm)

  • 4 stages impactor (for collection of aerosol particles on SEM stubs or TEM grids for electron microscopy)

  • 2 custom-made sequential aerosol samplers for electron microscopy

  • 3 Radiance Research 1-wavelength Nephelometers (to measure aerosol total scattering)

  • 2-Wavelength aethalometer (to measure BC equivalent mass)

  • PMS intracavity aerosol optical sizers (for particle sizes from 0.09 to 7.5 um)

  • TSI optical particle counters

  • Aerosol delivery manifold

  • 2 um DFB diode laser

  • Various visible and IR detectors  

  • Generic electronic instrumentation (e.g., Lock-in amplifiers, oscilloscopes, waveform generators)

Other on-campus facilities

• • The turbulent Pi Cloud Chamber

  • Applied Chemical and Morphological Analysis Laboratory

  • Materials Physics and Laser Physics Laboratory

  • Great Lakes Research Center