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ShapeShifter Transient Absorption Spectrometer

Pump/probe transient absorption spectrometer

ShapeShifter is a state-of-the-art pump/probe transient absorption spectrometer research tool that can be configured to perform experiments using many different types of nonlinear processes with transient absorption as the default option.

It is designed, fabricated and tested using field-proven components from a single manufacturer, thereby minimizing your technology adoption risk. ShapeShifter is capable of meeting your current needs while retaining the flexibility to add options1 that include pulsewidth as short as 15 fs2, a large range of pump and probe wavelengths (e.g. sub-200 nm to beyond 10 microns) with decay times ranging from sub-30 femtoseconds to nanoseconds, and at user-selectable repetition rates that are variable from single-shot to multiple kHz. It can be used to explore heat-affected-zone and embrittlement-free structuring in a wide variety of materials using pulse widths that are variable from 30 fs to 10 ps.

ShapeShifter begins with the field-proven Clark-MXR Model CPA-series of patented, fiber-oscillator-seeded, Ti:Sapphire amplifiers3 The output beam of the Model CPA can be split into as many as seven beams to pump as many as seven tunable, non-collinear OPAs (NOPAs). Or you can use one beam to generate multiple continua and/or you can microstructure materials to create features smaller than 1 micron. Clearly, ShapeShifter™ is the ideal tool for a user facility.

Why limit your future options when ShapeShifter™ offers you unmatched flexibility to go where your research takes you?

1May require some additional components. Please contact us for additional information.
2Riedle, M. E. Beutter, S. Lochbrunner, J. Piel, S. Schenkl, S. Spörlein, W. Zinth Appl. Phys. B 71, 457 – 465 (2000) Generation of 10 to 50 fs pulses tunable through all of the visible and the NIR
3Patent #5,530,582

Model ShapeShifter can be configured to do any one or more of these spectroscopic methods:

  • Transient Absorption Spectroscopy (TA)
  • Pump-Dump-Probe Spectroscopy
  • Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (CARS)
  • Femtosecond Stimulated Raman Spectroscopy (fsSRS)
  • 4-Wave Mixing Spectroscopy
  • Surface-Specific, Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy (Vib-SFG)
  • Two Photon Fluorescence Spectroscopy (TPF/TPEF)
  • Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging Microscopy (FLIM)
  • Photoluminescence Spectroscopy
  • Second Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy (SHG)
  • Third Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy (THG)
  • Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)
  • Heat-Affected-Zone-Free, Embrittlement-Free Ablation (Micromachining)
Specifications

Default Optional
Pump wavelength(s) 775nm (Fundamental)
388nm (SHG)
450-1600nm NOPA
250nm to 20um (OPA)
Probe wavelength range 450-780nm 320-1600nm
Delay window 3.2ns up to milliseconds with EON
Longer op7cal delays are also available
Detection VIS detection UV-Vis detection
Vis-NIR detection
NIR-mid-IR detection
Spectral resolution 2nm Detector/wavelength range dependent
Temporal resolution x1.4 (pump/probe, typical) as small as sub-20fs with NOPA-pump/
NOPA-probe
Sample holder 3D sample holder Reflec7on geometry or customized sample holders>
Cooling requirements none none
Polarization Optional polarization control for anisotropy experiments Optional polarization control for anisotropy experiments
  • Transient Absorption Spectroscopy and microscopy
  • CARS spectroscopy/microscopy
  • High S/N pump/probe spectroscopy & microscopy
  • 2D spectroscopy
  • Ultrafast electron microscopy
  • Time-resolved photo-induced Electrochemistry
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