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Physics Laboratories - Optical Instrumentation

Location: South Physics 306-307
Supervisor: John Viner

Experiments:

  1. Heterodyne Interferometry
  2. Measurement of a Doppler Shifted Optical Frequency with a Fabry Perot Optical Spectrum Analyzer
  3. Thermal and Shot Noise
  4. Photomultiplier Radiant Sensitivity and Noise
  5. Ellipsometry (complex index of refraction determination)
  6. Lasers (Gaussian beam and laser mode characterization)
  7. Polarization (Babinet-Soleil compensator: linear, circular and elliptical polarization states)
  8. Fiber Optics
  9. Diffraction Grating Spectrometer
  10. Optical Spectroscopy (spectrometer characterization; absorption and emission spectra)

 

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