Laser Resource Center
Harry B. Gray – Principal Investigator
Jay R. Winkler – MBI and Director
The Beckman Institute Laser Resource Center (BILRC) provides the Caltech research community with facilities, instrumentation, and guidance in steady-state and time-resolved laser spectroscopy, conventional spectroscopy, photophysics, and photochemistry. A primary focus is time-resolved spectroscopy for measurements of chemical and biochemical kinetics and the elucidation of reaction mechanisms.
BILRC Lasers include:
- Opotek Radiant QX tunable laser system (210-2500 nm; 6 ns)
- Spectra Physics femtosecond Ti:Sapphire (750-900 nm; 200 fs)
- Continuum picosecond Nd:YAG (1064, 532, 355, 266 nm; 10 ps)
- Spectra Physics Q-switched Nd:YAG (1064, 532, 355, 266 nm; 8 ns)
- Coherent CW Ar-ion (457.9, 488.0, 514.5 nm)
- RPMC CW diode laser (633.0 nm)
BILRC Spectroscopy resources include:
- Transient UV-VIS absorption spectroscopy: time scales from picoseconds to seconds
- Time-resolved luminescence: picoseconds to seconds
- Steady-state and time-resolved resonance Raman spectroscopy
- Steady-state and time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
- Steady-state luminescence
- Stopped-flow kinetic spectroscopy
- Circular dichroism spectroscopy
- In-situ soft X-ray spectroscopy
People
Harry B. Gray
Principal Investigator
- 412 – Beckman Institute
- Mail Code 139-74
- (626) 395-6500
- [email protected]