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Physics Laser Timing & FPGA Laboratories (CSH-007)

The DePaul Resource Map documents Physics Laser Timing & FPGA Laboratories as shared research or teaching infrastructure at DePaul University, College of Science and Health, Department of Physics and Astrophysics, Lincoln Park, from reviewed sources. This listing needs review: a current standalone DePaul webpage confirming the full description has not been identified. Research laboratories for developing and de-risking beamline instrumentation before deployment at synchrotron facilities. Capabilities include femtosecond laser timing, optical modulation, detector synchronization, FPGA-based timing logic, embedded control, real-time signal processing, and high-speed correlation measurements. Access: 🟡 Yellow — Needs an appointment or affiliation.

Summary 🟡 ?

  • College / school: College of Science and Health
  • Sub-unit: Department of Physics and Astrophysics
  • Campus/Location: Lincoln Park
  • Last Verified: May 30, 2026

Access (availability): 🟢 Green — open or routine · 🟡 Yellow — appointment or affiliation · 🔴 Red — restricted · ⚪/⚫ White/Black — not yet classified

Verification: ✓ confirmed · ~ likely · ? needs review · ✕ archived

Description & capabilities

Research laboratories for developing and de-risking beamline instrumentation before deployment at synchrotron facilities. Capabilities include femtosecond laser timing, optical modulation, detector synchronization, FPGA-based timing logic, embedded control, real-time signal processing, and high-speed correlation measurements.

OA Physics theses in this thread document collection at APS and analysis in MATLAB, not campus HPC: time-resolved XRD at beamline 7-ID (PUB-105 Ziabari; PUB-101 Grammich, DePaul-maintained TRXD MATLAB plus remote GID SL on the APS X-ray server); protein SAXS at Bio-CAT Sector 18 (PUB-102, PUB-103). See Advanced Photon Source.

Access status

Verification

  • Status: ? Needs review
  • Rationale: Laser/FPGA labs are documented in map/grant sources but lack a standalone public DePaul page with contacts, hours, or recent updates.
  • Last verified: 2026-05-30
  • Evidence:
  • Physics department page is primary public anchor
  • Grant facilities (NSF-ART, APS workflows) reference lab capabilities (May 2026)
  • No dedicated CSH-007 public URL verified

Equipment

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Category Specific equipment
Ultrafast and femtosecond lasers Byrne Hall femtosecond laser (ultrafast semiconductor / materials experiments); Computer-driven optical delay stage (~50 cm range, ~1 µm accuracy) — built for ultrafast measurements; Laser pump / X-ray probe timing and optical modulation setups (campus prep for synchrotron/XFEL runs)
FPGA and embedded control FPGA development boards; Digital timing electronics; Timing logic and embedded control firmware/software tools
Electronics benches and prototyping Oscilloscopes; Function generators; Real-time signal processing and high-speed correlation measurement setups
Photon counting and detector interfaces Photon-counting / gated area-detector interfaces; Multichannel smart-pixel array detector characterization (published methods)

Equipment access (via linked resources)

Resource Notes
CSH-005 Department Physics & Astrophysics shared facilities
CSH-001 Machine shop and shared McGowan instrumentation
CDM-014 HPCC for closed-loop analysis pipeline and model refinement
EXT-003 APS 7-ID and related beamlines — primary external ultrafast x-ray endpoint
EXT-019 PAL-XFEL XSS end-station — external XFEL experiments

Source: Byrne Hall femtosecond laser (CSH undergraduate research write-up); Landahl faculty page; OA pump-probe methods (Oct 2026). Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

Last verified: May 28, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts when publicly documented.

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Supports Physics beamline and instrumentation research; complements department facilities (CSH-005), McGowan machine shop and instrumentation (CSH-001), and HPCC analysis workflows (CDM-014). External partners: EXT-003 (APS beamline workflows), EXT-004 (ALCF compute).

Notes

Equipment list sourced from grant facilities narrative; confirm public department listing when available. PI name omitted from ownership metadata per map policy.