Abstract

The University of Oregon Shared Laser Facility is the cornerstone of the Optical Sciences Program. Established in 1984, the program's charter is to promote research and education in modern optics. The two thousand square foot facility will double in size on completion of the Science V building currently under construction at the University of Oregon. Available to the university community, and others by arrangement, the facility provides the opportunity for a researcher to try new ideas experimentally without spending $100,000 or mastering an unfamiliar technology. Currently the facility is composed of ten state-of-the-art lasers and laser systems. Taken together they span a frequency range from the vacuum ultraviolet to the infrared, a time scale from subpicosecond to continuous, and an intensity range from milliwatts to megawatts. Past experiments done in the facility have examined the picosecond dynamics of biomolecules, electron trapping in semiconductors, solid-liquid interface interactions, and the spectroscopy of free radicals.

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