The USPL laboratory at the University of Arizona is equipped with state-of-the-art femtosecond and nanosecond laser systems, hardware for laser pulse and beam shaping, as well as a comprehensive array of tools for the characterization of laser emission. These facilities have been assembled over the past fifteen years under the support from the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), US Office of Naval Research (ONR) and the Joint Directed Energy Transition Office (JDETO).
Terawatt-class, femtosecond Titanium-Sapphire laser system
Hidra-25 Ti:Sapphire laser system by Coherent, Inc.
40 fs pulses at 800 nm wavelength, 10 pulses per second repetition rate
35 mJ pulse energy
Femtosecond optical parametric amplifier (x2)
Palitra-HE OPA by Amplitude Laser, Inc.
Pumped by 40 fs, 20 mJ pulses at 800 nm wavelength from Hidra-25
Wavelenght converage from 460 nm to 2,700 nm
40% peak conversion efficiency
Wavelength extension to DUV, MIR and LWIR
3 J nanosecond Nd:YAG laser
Powerlite DLS Plus by Continuum Electro-Optics, Inc.
3.3 J, 6 ns pulses at 1,064 nm wavelength, 10 pulses per second repetition rate
Wavelength converters to 532 nm, 355 nm and 266 nm
kHz femtosecond laser system
Libra-UHP-HE Ti:Sapphire laser system by Coherent, Inc.
50 fs pulses at 800 nm wavelength, 1,000 pulses per second repetition rate
4 mJ pulse energy
Picosecond fiber lasers and supercontinuum generators
A comprehensive array of equipment for the construction and testing of fiber lasers and amplifiers and for the generation of ultrabroadband supercontinuum radiation.
Long-wave infrared femtosecond laser system (under construction)
