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Day 0 Tables lowered into basement
Tables in place! Homemade OPA #1: 100 fs, 480-730 nm

Main equipment:
Lasers: SpectraPhysics Spitfire PRO Ti:sapphire regenerative amplifier 4.2 W, 1 kHz, 800 nm, 100 fs pulses SpectraPhysics Mai Tai SP Ti:sapphire oscillator

Optical parametric amplifiers:    two homemade BBO OPAs ~0.25 W combined signal (1175-1600 nm) and idler (1600-2500 nm) from each OPA
                                                plus doubling, sum-frequency, and difference-frequency stages for tuning from 480 to >10,000 nm

two Acton 300 mm focal length imaging monochromators
Princeton Instruments Spec-10:400B/LN-eXcelon back-illuminated digital CCD
Ocean Optics USB2000+ VIS-NIR CCD (350-1000 nm)

Newport ILS250CC (1) and XMS50 (2) linear translation stages with XPS-C6 universal controller/driver

Stanford Research Systems (SRS) SR250 boxcar integrators
SRS SR830 lock-in amplifier