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

• Thermal analysis

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.

• FT-IR microscopy

Perkin Elmer Spotlight 400

• IR imaging

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