Photophysics beamline at Indus-1

An experimental facility to perform photoabsorption studies on gases and solids using synchrotron radiation from Indus-1, Indian synchrotron light source, RRCAT, Indore, India has been setup, This beamline uses synchrotron light from Indus-1 as the background continuum source for experiments in the wavelength range of 500 to 2000A with an average resolution of 1.5 A. Using this facility many absorption experiments on a variety of gaseous and solid samples have been performed. The details of the experimental facility, beamline and some of the results obtained on polyatomic molecules like CH2F2, NH3, HCHO, N2O etc. will be presented in this paper. Experimental results on gamma ray induced defect studies on Nd doped glass, Lithium fluoride etc. carried out using this beamline will also be presented. (author)