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Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, was founded in 1984 by the Department of Atomic Energy for dedicated pursuit of R&D in the areas of Accelerators, Cryogenics, Lasers, Plasma Physics, Vacuum Technology etc. encompassing basic research as well as technology development. The Centre has set up two Synchrotron Radiation Sources Indus-1 & Indus-2 which are National Research Facilities along with the injectors for these sources, namely, 20 MeV Microtron and 450-700 MeV Booster Synchrotron. Indus-1 is a 450 MeV electron storage ring producing radiation in the VUV range with a critical wavelength of 61 A and Indus-2 is a 2.5 GeV machine with a critical wavelength of 2 A. The Centre has also designed, developed and delivered several sub systems for the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, Geneva. In addition, smaller accelerators for industrial and medical applications have also been built. The Centre has excellent cryogenic facilities as well as state-of-the art equipment for low temperature physics measurements. There is also a programme to indigenously build helium liquefier. In the area of ultra high vacuum, the centre has set up facilities to make a variety of pumps and equipment. A variety of laser systems that include high power CO2 laser, flash lamp-pumped and diode-pumped Nd: YAG laser as well as semiconductor laser, have been developed at the Centre. These lasers are being utilized for basic research, laser-based charged particle acceleration experiments, laser-cooling of atoms, material processing, biomedical applications etc. Research activities being pursued in the Centre cover a wide range, namely, the areas of biomedical applications of lasers, laser-plasma interaction, low-temperature physics, material science, cold atom physics, non-linear optics, opto-electronics, nano-science etc. |
