Homework Assignments are due 1 week after they are assigned, and
laboratory notebooks are due 1 day after completion of lab.
Assignments
will lose 1 letter grade for each day late.
Table
of Contents
Start
up Procedure for Lasers
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Set-up Information |
| 1) Introduction to Laser Lab | Jan. 14 | Lab 1: Required Optics |
| 2) Linear Polarization of Light | Jan. 21 | Lab 2: Required Optics |
| 3) Circular and Elliptical Polarization of Light | Jan. 28 | Lab 3: Required Optics |
| 4) Michelson Interferometer | Feb. 4 | Lab 4: Required Optics |
| 5) Conventional Imaging & Spatial Filtering | Feb. 18 & 25*M/T
Exchange Day? |
Lab 5: Required Optics |
| 6) Photorefraction & Optical Processing | Mar. 4 | |
| 7) Reflection Holography | ||
| 8) Investigation of Gaussian Beams -- PARAXIA | Mar. 26 | |
| 9) Gaussian Beams -- Experimental Confirmation | Apr. 2 | |
| 10) Inside a Laser Cavity -- Stability, Polarization, & Modes | Apr. 9 | |
| 11) The Fabry Perot | Labs for Projects Listed as Exp. 11-14 |
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| 12) Second Harmonic Generation w/ Infrared Diode Laser | Individual handouts on equipment are provided Students work out the experiment on their own. |
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| 13) The Electrooptic Effect | ||
| 14) Fiber Optics |