{"id":2,"date":"2011-05-31T16:27:41","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T16:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2015-08-04T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T18:38:46","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vassar Ultrafast Optics Lab is located in the basement of Sanders Physics.\u00a0 It houses a lot of neat stuff, the fanciest of which is a Coherent Mira titanium sapphire laser that\u00a0 produces laser pulses that are less than a picosecond (one millionth of a millionth of a second) in duration.\u00a0 We use these ultrashort pulses to study very fast thermal and mechanical behavior in thin films, crystals, and nanostructured materials.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_154\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/0067_15_07_BL_5513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-image-154 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/0067_15_07_BL_5513-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"URSI Laser Project, 2015\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/0067_15_07_BL_5513-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/0067_15_07_BL_5513-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/0067_15_07_BL_5513-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/0067_15_07_BL_5513-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sushant Mahat &#8217;16 and Molly James &#8217;17 &#8211; Aligning the Optics<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_55\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/Brian-Daly-10-BL-6513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-image-55 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/Brian-Daly-10-BL-6513-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Brian Daly\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/Brian-Daly-10-BL-6513-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/Brian-Daly-10-BL-6513-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/Brian-Daly-10-BL-6513-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/files\/2011\/05\/Brian-Daly-10-BL-6513-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ultrafast laser experiment in the basement of Sanders Physics. My hand is not in the beam&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vassar Ultrafast Optics Lab is located in the basement of Sanders Physics. It houses a lot of neat stuff, the fanciest of which is a Coherent Mira titanium sapphire laser that produces laser pulses that are less than a picosecond (one millionth of a millionth of a second) in duration. We use these ultrashort [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/ultrafast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}