The CERCP’s facilities are housed within the headquarters of the Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers, on Université Laval’s campus, in Quebec City, Canada.
CURRENT FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT INCLUDE :
- Glass synthesis and purification laboratories
- MCVD laboratories and equipment
- Fibre drawing towers (2) dedicated to silica and exotic glasses
- Thin film processing (IR materials)
Intlvac Nanochrome II thin film deposition system
Netzsch DSC 404F3 with standard and silver (-120C) furnaces
- UV-VIS-NIR luminescence spectroscopy
Nanolog system including iHR320 Imaging Spectrometer from Horiba Jobin-Yvon, steady state and lifetime measurements.
Perkin Elmer Spotlight 400
SWIR, MWIR, and LWIR imaging platforms for macro/microscopic inspection and characterization of materials and waveguides
- COPL equipment and facilities also includes
See the equipment list http://www.copl.ulaval.ca/en/about/facilities_and_infrastructure/#c97
PROJECTED FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT INCLUDE :
Fall 2012
- 3D-Profilometry
- Prism coupling refractometer
- Metricon M-Lines, for thin film and bulk material characterization
2013
- Raman Microscopy
- Spectroscopic Ellipsometry (190nm – 3200nm)
- Thermo-Mechanical Analysis (TMA)
- Thermo-Gravimetric Analysis – Mass Spectrometry (TGA-MS)
- Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMTA)
- Viscosimeters
- Photocalorimetry (photo-DSC)
- Elemental chemical analysis platform (ICP/GC-MS)
- Organic/inorganic synthesis chemistry laboratories
- X-Ray Diffraction
- UV-VIS-NIR (up to 3.4um)
- Optical characterization of photonic materials up to 14um
2014