Useful Links

Don't mess about trying to find those same values in books over and over again, when you find it put it in here. So what do we have so far.

Companies

Safety

Physics

Lookup Tables

• Periodic table: Webelements very good periodic table with many properties of elements including compounds and iostopes. (Go direct to Ta⁷³ and Pb⁸².)
• Periodic table: ChemicalElements.com basic table with isotope half-lives and a few material properties.
• Local Periodic Table: for quick consultation.
• Properties of tantalum and lead stored locally for quick look-up.
• RF Power Table for power in Watts from dBm
• Physics constants

General Useful Info

• Vacuum Technology web page - Information on good vacuum materials
• Kurt Lesker - Conductance of straight vacuum tubes
• Principles of Charged Particle Acceleration - by S Humphries (Full book online).

Company Sites

Laser

• Laser Focus World magazine which has some useful product lists.
• Coherent Inc.
• Laser Resale - second hand lasers.
• Lumonics lasers
• Physics Instrumentation Center (Troitsk)

Optics

• Argus International - Including Far Infr-red optics.
• Crystran - Optics for Infra-red and Ultra Violet.
• EG&G - some electro-optical devices.
• Epner Technology - Metal coatings for Infra-red optics.
• Hilger Crystals.
• Infrared Multilayer Laboratory (Data on infrared materials).
• Korth Kristalle - Manufacturer of crystals and optical components.
• II-VI Inc - CO2 Laser Optics.
• Linos - Manufacturer of complex optical systems and high tech components. .
• Melles Griot.
• Newport Optics.
• Optical Surfaces - Lenses, mirrors (inc off-axis parabolas).
• OptoSigma - Coatings, mirrors, lenses, beamsplitters etc.
• Oriel Lot.
• SESO Société Européenne De Systèmes Optiques.
• ThorLabs - General optics, some gold mirror, some small mounts (with prices).

Detectors

• Applied Scintillation Technologies (ex Levy-Hill) - Scintillators.
• EG&G - Reticon CCD camera
• Electron-Tubes for SEM/EMT detectors
• Gentec - Laser power and energy meters, plus holographic beam splitters.
• Hilger Crystals - Scintillating crystals
• Macken Instruments - Inexpensive Laser Diagnostcis
• Molectron for power and energy meters.
• Scientech energy and power diagnostics.
• Spiricon - Pyrocam LaserBeam Analyser system.

Instrumentation

• Lecroy home page (oscilloscopes).
• Pearson Electronics for current transformers.
• home page.
• Stanford Research Systems - Delay generators, Lock in Amplifiers etc.

Controls

• The Olivetti homepage.
• The National Instruments home page is useful for any GPIB equipment, as itincludes a full catalogue.
• Labview page at CERN.
• Iomega home page(optical drives).
• Panasonic home page(optical drives).
• Syquest home page(optical drives).

Vacuum

• Balzers - All vacuum products.
• Caburn and MDC - vacuum componenets.
• Ceramaseal - Feedthroughs and Ceramics.
• Chell Instruments - pressure, vacuum and gas flow measurement and control
• Greene Tweed - for seals.
• Hiden Analytical - Vacuum products, in particular RGAs.
• Kratos Analytical - Vacuum pumps, leak detectors and service centre.
• Kurt J. Lesker Company - for all vacuum equipment.
• Leybold Vacuum
• MKS instruments - for pressure/vacuum/flow measurements
• MPF Products - vacuum feedthroughs and optical components
• NTE Vacuum technology - vacuum chambers
• Pfeiffer Vacuum - pumps and measurement systems
• Scientific Vacuum Systems - Vacuum deposition systems.
• UHV Design for UHV components including motion devices and viewports.
• Vacuum Generators (Fissons - user PIN 2591).
• X-Tronix - Switzerland

Power Supplies

• Advance Power Electronics -  (German Office)
• Advanced Energy - power conversion and control systems.
• Bertan - prescision high voltage power solutions.
• Diversified Technologies, In - high voltage electronic solutions
• EEV (English Electric Valves) - high voltage switches
• FuG Electronics - high voltage and current systems.
• Glassman - HV power supplies and meaurement systems.
• Huber and Suhner - for cables etc.
• Hewlett Packard - pages.
• Knurr-Heinzinger - electronic GmbH.
• R.E. Beverly III and Associates - Pulsed-power components and systems, research and development, scientific software
• Sefelec HV Power supplies.
• Spellman High Voltage - Power supplies.
• VCH - spark gap tubes.

Materials

• Charles Thompson - Exotic alloy fabrication.
• Goodfellow Cambridge - suppliers of metals and alloys.
• Hilger Crystals.
• ESPI Metals - suppliers of metals and alloys.

Publishers

• John Wiley & Sons.
• Cambridge University Press.
• Oxford University Press.
• Van Nostrand Reinhold.
• McGraw-Hill.
• MCB University Press.

Others

• The Yahoo Physics WWW library.
• The Institute of Physics home page.

Information

• Sam's Laser FAQ for CO2 lasers.

Safety

• CERN TIS division safety documents

o Safety Code F - Protection against Ionizing Radiation
o IS22 - Rules for the Safe Use of Lasers at CERN

• General Laser Safety Web site at CERN

For other labs doing work on Laser Plasmas, there are:-

• The LLNL NIF studies, including a lot of hydrodynamics.