Concordia College Laser Facility

The Concordia College Laser Facility (CCLF) was officially established in 2004 as a result of an NSF CAREER grant  and a Henry Dreyfus teacher/scholar award obtained by Dr. Darin Ulness, associate professor of chemistry.  The CCLF is used to conduct state of the art research in laser spectroscopy that involves undergraduate students from Concordia College and talented high school students from the Fargo-Moorhead area. Additionally, the CCLF is used for laboratory experiments upper level science courses.

Key Equipment

•    Two Nd:YAG lasers
•    Two dye lasers
•    Three high resolution spectrometers
•    Two high sensitivity CCD detectors
•    Three laser tables
•    More than $25,000 in optics, hardware and other supplies

Research Experiments

•    Noisy light spectroscopy
•    Investigation of hydrogen bonding
•    Development of Noisy light based CARS microscopy
•    Protein folding (coming 2008)

Courses

•    Physical Chemistry II
        o    The entire lab curriculum is laser based.
•    Techniques for Modern Physics
        o    Two experiments are done in the CCLF

Senior Personnel

•    Darin J. Ulness, chemistry
•    Eric Peterson, chemistry
•    Mark W. Gealy, physics

Information For:

current students
faculty and staff		 parents
alumni		 high school students
admitted students