Facilities

The IPG lab is housed in the Department of Physics. It consists of state-of-the-art equipment in the area of photonics. The equipment is available for lab courses, undergraduate projects, and graduate research.

Currently available equipment includes:

• fiber communication set-up,
• EDFA,
• diode laser testing equipment,
• diode laser drivers (500mA, DC-150kHz modulated),
• interferometers,
• optical spectrum analyzer (600-1700nm, 20pm resolution),
• CCD camera (400-900nm),
• digital storage oscilloscope (500MHz bandwidth, waveform averaging),
• He-Ne lasers (red&green, 0.5mW), diode lasers (670nm and 785nm, 5mW)
• Si and InGaAs photodetectors (10MHz), Si photodiode array,
• fiber optic components (cleaver, positioner, coupler, ...).

The lab is equiped with table-top breadboards. The current slate of experiments are classified into four categories: fiber optics, detectors, lasers, and optics.