KLS

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The Kansas Light Source is a high-intensity ultrafast laser light source developed by Professor Zenghu Chang. The ultrashort femtosecond light pulses made here are directed to experiments all over the lab. Some of those experiments explore the fundamental physics of non-linear optics in hopes of producing still shorter attosecond light pulses. This set of photos was taken in October 2008.

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Too many computers at the west end of KLS.	Hiroki and Steve, hard at work.	Opposite view of the wet bench, where the OPA lives.
Above and below, an experiment surrounded with Helmholtz coils.		Two little tiny laptops control the pump lasers.
	The center bench holds KLS1, the original short-pulse Ti:Sapphire laser.
One of many experiment stations on the benches.		Hiroki makes a point.
The new MURI lasers, under development.	Looking down the north edge of the room. A beam transfer line is being rebuilt at top.
	Left and above, the hollow-core fiber for supercontinuum generation...	...and the transfer line pick-off optics.
KLS2 is near the west end. The LN2 cryostat for cooling the crystal is visible.		Our circuit of KLS is complete, back again in the SW corner.

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