Ignacio Olivares Bahamondes
E-mail:
ignacio.olivares@usach.cl
Academic degree:
1.) Doctor in Natural Sciences (Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Ruhr University Bochum)
2.) Master in Exact Sciences, mention in Physics (Faculty of Physics, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
3.) Bachelor's degree in Physics (Faculty of Physics,
Program Subjects:
1. Experimental Physics V: This is a laser optics course that includes geometric optics and wave optics experiments.
2. Advanced Laboratory. Tunable diode laser, saturated absorption spectroscopy, Fabry Perot confocal interferometer, Complex refractive ndex measurement. Pound-Drever Hall method for stabilizing lasers.
3. Multiple service laboratories: Waves and Modern Physics, Heat, Electricity and Magnetism, Thermodynamics, Optics.
Research Lines:
Laser Spectroscopy, Atomic Physics, Tunable Lasers
Activity:
1. Laser spectroscopy: Includes saturated absorption spectroscopy experiments on alkaline vapours and lithium vapours. Study of collisions of atoms with background gas in vapour.
2. Cold atoms: Demonstration of a cloud of cold rubidium atoms using tunable diode lasers. Magneto-optical trap.
3. Tunable diode lasers: Design and construction of tunable diode lasers. Laser testing with confocal interferometers and alkaline vapours.
4. Pulsed lasers: Study of a Nd:YAG laser, 36 mJ 6 ns infrared. Repair and calibration. Construction of the power supply and ignition device for flash lamps.
5. Laser telemetry: Study of avalanche photodiodes for distance measurements with a pulsed infrared Nd:YAG.
6. Lithium resonant ionization spectroscopy. Measurement of resonant ionization spectra in lithium vapours with tunable lasers and fourth harmonic Nd:YAG lasers. Stationary vapours were generated in a Heat Pipe.
Isotopic separation of lithium using lasers. Demonstration of a separation method using a tunable laser diode on a neutral lithium beam. In addition, the mass separator was developed.
7. Mie scattering. Experiment with 5 micrometer spheres.
8. Collisions. Optical experiment to measure speed of propagation of mechanical pulses.
9. Thomson scattering. Ruby laser experiment to determine temperature and density in dense plasmas.
10. Plasma spectroscopy. Measurement of emission spectra of dense plasmas. Determination of density from line width.
11. Preparation of a book on laser techniques for lithium isotopic separation and trapping and cooling of atoms.
12. Preparation of a book on optical experiments.
