• Lab space: three optical characterization labs (Dearborn 206, Dearborn 302A, Owen 333) with more than 1,500 square feet; one shared wet-chemical lab (Dearborn 302) with more than 1,200 square feet
  • Optical Testing Tables
    • Three large (10’×4’) floating optical tables with vibration isolation
    • Four floating optical breadboard tables (5’×3’)
  • Photos of equipmentOptical Coupling System
    • Thorlabs APT NanoTrak Auto-alignment Controller [Fig. (a)]
    • Thorlabs Max311D 3-Axis NanoMax Stage, Closed-Loop Piezos [Fig. (b)]
    • Surface-normal optical coupling system for grating coupler or nanoantennas [Fig. (c)]
    • Multiple Thorlabs and Newport 3-axis, 4-axis, and 5-axis alignment stages
  • High-Speed Optoelectronic Characterization
    • Agilent 86100A digital communication analyzer with 86109A optoelectronic module (30GHz optical and 40GHz electrical bandwidth) [Fig. (d)]
    • HP 8510C Network Analyzer (45 MHz- 50 GHz) (shared facility at Microwave Lab)
    • 10GHz LiNbO3 intensity modulator
    • Thorlabs 818-BB-35 12.5GHz photodetector & APD310 high gain detector
  • Laser & Light Sources
    • Carlmar femtosecond pulsed fiber laser: 0.1ps pulse, 20mW [Fig. (e)]
    • HP 8168A tunable laser [Fig. (f)]
    • Newport 2010M tunable DFB laser: 1.48-1.62 μm
    • Newport 5-channel DWDM laser array at C-band
    • Thorlabs broadband IR ASE diode laser: 1.5-1.6 μm
    • NKT super-K compact light source (400-2400nm wavelength) [Fig. (g)]
    • Thorlab S9FC1004P semiconductor optical amplifier
    • Two Mellis-Griot HeNe lasers: 632.8 nm, 5mW
    • SDL CW high power CW fiber laser: 1112nm, 10W
    • LSI DLM-220 dye laser: 514nm, 3ns pulse
    • Three Nd:YAG lasers: 1064 nm and 512 nm, 10W
    • Avantes white light source: vis-IR
    • Intralux fiber optic illuminator
    • Various semiconductor laser diodes and LEDs
  • Photodetectors and power meters
    • VIC silicon photomultiplier
    • Two Thorlab InGaAs fixed gain photodetectors
    • Thorlab BP209-IR beam profiler (900-1700nm)
    • Newport PMKIT power meter: 0.1nm-2W
    • Thorlab fiber-optic power meter: 800-1700nm
    • Thorlab USB PM100 power and energy meter with Si and Ge detectors
  • Optical spectroscopy equipment
    • Thorlab OSA203 Optical spectrum analyzer (1.0-2.6μm) [Fig. (h)]
    • Ando AQ6317B optical spectrum analyzer (0.4-1.7 μm)
    • HP70951 optical spectrum analyzer (0.6-1.7 μm)
    • Ocean-optics USB2000 UV-VIS spectrum analyzer
    • Three Chromex scanning monochromators
  • Electronic equipment
    • Three Princeton Applied Research lock-in amplifier, and one Stanford Research amplifiers up to 250MHz [Fig.(i)]
    • Fluke 1GHz function generator, multiplex Tektronix function generators
    • Three Tektronix digital oscilloscopes
    • Dual channel Wavetek synthesized arbitrary waveform generator
    • Standford Research 4-channel pulse and delay generator
    • 1500V voltage supply
  • Misc. equipment: Various fiber splitters, Thorlabs PCFFB1550Bench Fiber-optic polarizers [Fig.(j)], attenuators, and isolators, Fabry-Perot interferometer