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Government of India | Department of Atomic Energy
Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology
RRCAT Newsletter - Issue 2 of 2009
 Contents

  From the Director's Desk
  From the Editorial Board

 Laser Programme:
L.1:  Observation of a second plateau in high order harmonic generation from preformed Plasma plumes
L.2:  Development of high energy nano-second Nd:YAG laser and laser shock peening study
L.3:  Intense soft x-ray generation from capillary discharge plasma
L.4:  Development of 110 W Copper HyBrID laser
L.5:  Development of a Raman shifted optical probe for plasma diagnostics
L.6:  20kHz, efficient operation of a large-bore copper vapor laser (KE-CVL)
L.7:  Dynamics of cold Rb atom cloud in a magneto-optical probe for plasma diagnostics
L.8:  Enhancement in atom transfer between two MOTs by using a pulsed push beam
L.9:  A Pulse Stretcher for Laser Pulses
L.10: Extraction of tissue Raman spectra from the raw fluorescence background
L.11: Development of dielectric coating for semiconductor laser facets

 Accelerator Programme:
A.1:  Optical fibre based analog signal isolation for Indus-2 Controls
A.2:  Activities during recent shutdown of Indus-2
A.3:  New Trigger Generator Unit for Microtron Timing Controls
A.4:  Development of Pulsed Kicker Magnets for Indus-2
A.5:  New VME bus based CPU card CPU68K-2PORT for Indus controls
A.6:  X-Ray beam position monitor on Indus-2
A.7:  Utility Modules For Indus-2 Control System Layer 3 Monitoring
A.8:  Development of Metal Forming Tooling for 1.3GHz SRF Cavity
A.9:  Indus-2 control system software enhancements
A.10: Induction Heating Power Supply for MOVPE System

 Infrastructure:
I.1:  Scientific Computing and Software Development at RRCAT
I.2:  Development of Information Systems at RRCAT
I.3:  Development in Networking and Communication at RRCAT
I.4:  VRF based air conditioning for temperature stability of ± 0.5°C at Calibration Facility
I.5:  Clean Room for Laser Micro Machining Centre as per Class 8 of ISO 14644
I.6:  Erection of Experimental station platform for TIFR experiment on Cosmic Ray Measurement
I.7:  Other Civil Works

 Theme Articles:
T.1:  High current H-ion source development at RRCAT
T.2:  Multi-wavelength diode pumped neodymium doped vanadate lasers
T.3:  Studies on Thin Films and Quantum Structures of ZnO Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition

 Publications:
Publications from RRCAT during January 2009-June 2009

 News:
N.1:  RRCAT gets a new Director
N.2:  One day seminar in the honour of Dr. V.C. Sahni
N.3:  DAE-BRNS Indian Particle Accelerator Conference (InPAC) 2009
N.4:  One Week Exposure Program
N.5:  Experimental Physics & Industrial Control System (EPICS) Workshop
N.6:  Women's Day 2009 Celebration
N.7:  RRCAT scientist honoured
N.8:  IPA Award for RRCAT scientist
N.9:  राजा रामन्‍ना प्रगत प्रौद्योगिकी केन्‍द्र द्वारा जनवरी 2009 से आयोजित हिन्‍दी की विभिन्‍न गतिविधियां

 

RRCAT Newsletter - Issue 2 of 2009



Chief Editor
  • Dr. Shovan K. Majumdar
Editorial Board:
  • Dr. Vinit Kumar
  • Dr. Tapas Ganguli
  • Dr. Christ P. Paul
  • Sh. Shailendra S. Tomar
  • Sh. J. Pattnaik
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