Vacuum facilities

Hongo campus

ø800 x L2000, rotary pump, booster pump, cryopump (320 + 8,400 (Ar) l/s)
ø1000 x L1200, rotary pump, turbomolecular pump (11 + 900 l/s)
ø1000 x L1500, rotary pump, turbomolecular pump (11 + 420 l/s)

Kashiwa campus

ø500 x L2500, 2 rotary pumps, 2 booster pumps (83 + 566 l/s)
ø500 x L1000, rotary pump, compound molecular pump (130 + 210 l/s)
ø1000 x L1800, rotary pump, 2 cryopumps (50 + 18,400 (Ar) l/s)

 

 

Measurement equipment

Spectrometer

LTB Aryelle 200 Echelle spectrometer (232-828 nm, resolving power ~9,000)
SOL Instruments MS2004i (330-1000 nm)
Ocean Optics HR4000 (200-300 nm, resolving power ~10,000)
Ocean Optics Maya2000pro (165-1100 nm)
Hamamatsu PMA-50 (300-1000 nm, resolving power ~10,000)

Camera

Andor Technology iStar DH734 ICCD camera

DRS Hadland Ltd. Ultra-8 high-speed camera (400-900 nm,

>10 ns exposure time, <100 Mfps)

Thrust stand

2D dual pendulum thrust stand for Hall thruster (1-100 mN class)
Impulse balance for PPT/microthruster (1 µNs - 500 mNs class)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laser, others

UT-94 Gyrotron (94 GHz, 100 kW, 0.1 ms pulse, ~1 Hz repetitive)

Continuous wave CO2 laser (10.6 µm, 2 kW)

External cavity diode laser (768-788 nm, 12 mW)

Diode-pumped solid-state laser (532 nm, 1.45 W)

Diode laser (980 nm, 250 W)

Pulsed TEA-CO2 laser (10.6 µm, 6-10 J/pulse)

Q-switch pulsed Nd:glass laser (1053 nm, 1-2 J/pulse)

Excimer laser (157-800 nm, 0.9 J/pulse)

Microwave oscillator (2.45 GHz, 1 kW)

Millimeter wave generator (94 GHz, 400 mW, w/ heterodyne detector)

Vector network analyzer

MODELA MDX-15