8000 cm^-1 – 200 cm^-1 | 1.25 μm – 50 μm | 1 – 0.025 eV

0.1 cm^-1

Edge and Bending Magnet Radiation - 78 mrad Horizontal × 20 mrad Vertical extraction

1.86×10¹⁴ Photons/s/0.1%bw @ 10 µm for 500 mA stored current

Single point microscopy
Time resolved, high spatial resolution microscopy (rapid scan and Step/Scan)
Single point raster mapping
ATR microscopy in inverted geometry
Very high sensitivity ATR spectroscopy (~70 ATR bounces)
2D IR FPA imaging
nanoIR techniques: sSNOM and phototermal AFM-IR (under commissioning)
mIRage photothermal IR microscope with ~500 nm resolution (operating with QCL source)
Raman microscopy
Müller polarimetry (SR adaptation in progress, available with thermal source)

ATR and grazing incidence objectives
Diamond anvil cells: low (0.5-5 GPa) and moderately high (<40GPa) pressure
Cooling and heating sample stages (Linkam)
LHe flow cryostat (Oxford Microstat)

Diffraction limited, up to ~5×5 μm²

~4.8×10¹³ Photons/s/0.1%bw at the entrance of the interferometers

small area MCT/A (Mercury Cadmium Telluride), MCT/B detector with extended spectral range, LHe cooled CuGe, InSb, Si photodiode

Linearly (bending magnet emission) and radially polarized (edge radiation)

The Thermo Nicolet 8700 bench is capable of time resolved studies in Rapid Scan and Step/Scan modes.