Laser Resource Center
Harry B. Gray – Principal Investigator
Jay R. Winkler – MBI and Director
The goal of the Beckman Institute Laser Resource Center (BILRC) is to provide 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 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
- Stopped-flow kinetic spectroscopy
- Circular dichroism spectroscopy
- In-situ soft X-ray spectroscopy
BILRC Lasers include:
- Regeneratively amplified mode-locked Ti:Sapphire
- Regeneratively amplified mode-locked Nd:YAG
- Q-switched Nd:YAG
- Nd:YAG pumped optical parametric oscillator
- CW Ar-ion
- CW Ti:Sapphire
- CW He:Cd
People
Harry B. Gray
Principal Investigator
- 412 – Beckman Institute
- Mail Code 139-74
- (626) 395-6500
- hbgray@caltech.edu
Jay R. Winkler
Director
- 310 – Beckman Institute
- Mail Code 139-74
- (626) 395-2834
- winklerj@caltech.edu