Compressor Area Setup

​SCARLET Laser Compressed from 800 ps to 50 fs

SCARLET Laser Compressed Facility

Take a look as we prepare for temporal pulse compression:

Getting clean

Students Cleaning the Compressor Chamber

Prepping the optic mounts

Rosa and Yani with the mounts they designed for the SCARLET laser compressor chamber

 

Electronics for moving the optic mounts under vacuum

Cleaning the optics and positioning the mounts

The laser team is responsible for aligning the compressor to less than 100 fs for the First Light event.

We achieved ~ 50 fs.