Physics Laser Timing & FPGA Laboratories (CSH-007)
Summary 🟡 ?
- Owner Unit: College of Science and Health
- Sub-unit: Department of Physics and Astrophysics
- Content Type: infrastructure
- Campus/Location: Lincoln Park
- Last Verified: May 30, 2026
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.
Access status
- Level: yellow (
Negotiated Access) - Rationale: Dedicated laser/FPGA labs are referenced through physics research infrastructure; no standalone public access or hours page was identified.
- Access URL: csh.depaul.edu/academics/physics/Pages/default.aspx
- Contact name: CSH front desk
- Contact email: CSHFrontDesk@depaul.edu
- Verification date: 2026-05-30
- Source URLs:
- csh.depaul.edu/academics/physics/Pages/default.aspx
Verification
- Status: needs_review (
?) - Confidence: 58/100
- 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
Find this resource from the Equipment catalog or site search (e.g. “3D printers”, “laser cutter”, “NMR”).
| Category | Specific equipment |
|---|---|
| Ultrafast and femtosecond lasers | Femtosecond laser systems (timing, optical modulation, detector synchronization) |
| 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 detector interfaces |
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 |
Source: Grant facilities narrative — Physics research labs for APS/beamline prep (May 2026). Last verified: May 28, 2026.
Contacts (resource-level)
- Website: Physics & Astrophysics
- Email: CSH front desk
Last verified: May 28, 2026.
People & contacts
Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.
- Jesús Pando (Director) — jpando@depaul.edu · Profile
- Eric Landahl (Faculty lead) — Profile
- Gabriela Gonzalez Aviles (Affiliated faculty) — ggonza18@depaul.edu · Profile
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).
Linked Relationship IDs
- CSH-005 - Physics & Astrophysics Laboratories
- CSH-001 - Chemistry Core Instrumentation & Machine Shop
- CDM-014 - High-Performance Compute Cluster (HPCC)
- EXT-003 - Advanced Photon Source (APS)
- EXT-004 - Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF)
Notes
Equipment list sourced from grant facilities narrative; confirm public department listing when available. PI name omitted from ownership metadata per map policy.