Physics Laboratories - Optical Instrumentation
Location: South Physics 306-307
Supervisor: John Viner
Experiments:
- Heterodyne Interferometry
- Measurement of a Doppler Shifted Optical Frequency with a Fabry Perot Optical Spectrum Analyzer
- Thermal and Shot Noise
- Photomultiplier Radiant Sensitivity and Noise
- Ellipsometry (complex index of refraction determination)
- Lasers (Gaussian beam and laser mode characterization)
- Polarization (Babinet-Soleil compensator: linear, circular and elliptical polarization states)
- Fiber Optics
- Diffraction Grating Spectrometer
- Optical Spectroscopy (spectrometer characterization; absorption and emission spectra)
