Laboratory Facilities
The Photonics Research Center has two laboratories: the Laboratory for Materials Processing (clean room, thin film vacuum deposition cluster, laser micromachining workstation, SEM, ellipsometer, prophilometer) and the Photonics Laboratory (optical sources and detection systems, micro-positioning and spectral characterization systems for photonic devices and components, modeling facilities, automatic splicing, recoating and connectorization stations, static and dynamic calibration systems for different variables, spectral and polarization measurement workstations, magnetic field facility and associated equipment). The total installed infrastructure has approximately a value of 5 million dollars and further expansion at the level of 2.5 million dollars is under way. The research center is located in the Lucien-Brault Pavilion at UQO.
Laboratory for Materials Processing
Virtual Tour of our Facility
Laser micro-machining station
Thin-film deposition cluster
Femtosecond laser
Microfabrication station
Optical Spectrum Analyzer
Gas and Supply
Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour Deposition (PECVD) and SEM
Ellipsometer
Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD)
Excimer laser
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD)
Stylus Profilometer
Optical Profilometer
Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
CO2 Laser
Refractometer
Photonics Laboratory
This is where it all started - Argon Laser
Characterization set-up for highly birefringent fibers
Polarization Analyzer
Lab-made Matrix Sensor Arrays
Monochromator/Spectrograph
Laser-induced Breakdown Spectrometer