Lab Facilities

         Optical Laboratory

         Computing Facilities

         Nanofabrication

Optical Laboratory

  • Ultrafast Ti:Sapphire laser
    200 fs pulses, 76 MHz repetition rate, 1 W output power, wavelength tunable
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  • Streak camera
    2 picosecond resolution, photon counting sensitivity
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  • High resolution spectrometer with liquid nitrogen cooled CCD detector array
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  • Two temperature controlled optical cryostat
    Temperature range 4-500K
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  • Near-field scanning optical microscope


  • He-Cd CW laser
    CW output power 20mW at 325nm


  • High energy picosecond Nd:YAG laser
    15ps pulse,  pulse energy at 1064nm > 20mJ,  532 nm > 10 mJ,  355 nm > 5mJ


  • Computing Facilities



  • Courtney - Linux Cluster
    The 14 nodes (21 processors) run Fedora Core 4 and Sun N1 Grid Engine 6.
    Click here for the cluster help pages.



  • Bulldog I - Linux Cluster (SHARED)
    170 Dell PowerEdge 1955 nodes, each containing 2 dual core 3.0 Ghz Xeon 64 bit EM64T Intel cpus, for a total of 680 cores. Each node has 16 GB of RAM. The network is Gigabit ethernet. Bulldogi runs a high performance Lustre filesystem. It is managed via PBS.
    Click here for the cluster help pages.


  • Bulldog J - Linux Cluster (SHARED)
    128 compute nodes each have eight Intel Xeon cpu cores(E5440@2.83GHz) for a total of 1024 cores. Half of the nodes have 16 GB of RAM and half have 32GB of RAM. The nodes are equipped with infiniband high speed interconnects. A high speed file system called Lustre is provided for short term storage of large data sets. It is managed via PBS.
    Click here for the cluster help pages.



  • Bulldog K - Linux Cluster (SHARED)
    192 compute nodes each have eight Intel "Xeon" cpu cores (E5410@2.66GHz) for a total of 1536 cores. Each node has 16 GB of RAM. The network is Gigabit ethernet. A high speed file system called Lustre is provided for short term storage of large data sets. It is managed via PBS.
    Click here for the cluster help pages.



  • Nanofabrication

  • Varian 3118 Thermal Deposition System
    Turbo pump, 2KVA SCR source controller, Pressure control, Reactive gas deposition capability, 6 MHz crystal thickness monitor, Chamber heating


  • Clean Hood
  • Chemical Hood

  • Shared Facilities

  • Yale Clean room

  • Center for Research on Interface Structures and Phenomena

  • Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering