Facilities

Computer Laboratory

The Physics Department houses its own computer laboratory with 24 hours highspeed, fibreoptic Internet connection. It facilitates all major commercial and opensource physics softwares (both Linux and MS Windows). The department also has a small cluster dedicated for parallel computation.

Seminar Library

We have a departmental Seminar Library, which has about 1500 books, including the major text books, encyclopedias, and handbooks. This library is fully computerised and connected to the departmental LAN.

GUO astronomical observatory

The Physics Department operates an astronomical observatory, known as the Gauahti University Observatory (GUO), which is an adjunct to the department. The GUO houses three telescopes : a fully automated 12-inch, Mead LX-200 SchmidtCassegrain scope, a manual and trackable, 6inch Cassegraib scope, and a 3-inch Galilean scope. Besides, it has two, highspeed, researchlevel, photolectric photometers and a CCD camera. Apart from the students' activities, the GUO, from time to time conducts public sky viewing programmes on different occasions.

Condensed Matter Laboratory

This laboratory is equipped with a Varian spectrophotometer, a monochromator (Oriel), a rf sputtering unit (Hind Hivac), and a vacuum coating unit. Electrometers and PicoAmmeters (Keithley) are also avaible to the users. The X-Ray laboratory has X-Ray generators (Phillips).

Laser and Advanced Spectroscopy Laboratory

It belongs to the Laser and Advanced spectroscopy section. It comprises two parts-

• Spectroscopy part:This part of the laboratory has three spectrographs out of which two are quarz spectrographs and one is glass spectrograph. It houses a dark room which has the facility to make negatives and positives of the spectrum recorded by the spectrographs. Instruments necessary to calibrate the spectral lines are also available.
• Photonics part: The photonics part of the laboratory was constructed recently with the financial assistance from the Department of Science and Technology, India under the FIST programme. It comprises a PC Interfaced Digital Spectrometer (HR2000, Ocean Optics). It is capable of generating spectrums in the visible range at the video rate. It also comprises a computer generated holography set up whose main component is a Liquid Crystal Spatial Light Modulator (LC2002, Holoeye). Other arrangement includes analysis of an imaging system using a CCD camera (Basler A601f).
  

Nuclear Pysics Laboratory

The Nuclear laboratory houses a Mini-Array Cosmic Ray detector, Cerenkov detector, Plastic scintillator counters, Alpha spectrometer, and binocular research micriscopes.

Electronics and Robotics Laboratory

A newly established robotics laboratory has been added to this section. It has microwave test bench, fibre optic trainer kit, and a couple of LIDERs and distrometer.

Physics Workshop

The Physics Workshop is a unit of the departmental laboratories which has two sections : Electronics and Machine shops. The Electronics section cater to the needs of various student-related projects. The Machine section has different lathe machines and other related machinaries. It also has a Carpentry section.