Modern Optics

Optics bench

Overview

In the Modern Optics Laboratory, you will get the opportunity to work with sophisticated equipment on experimental topics that reflect current trends in optical and atomic physics research.

While each project will be biased towards a particular set of skills, the general objectives are:

To learn and apply skills in optical alignment, electronics, data acquisition, etc., in order to carry out the project.
To extend the project beyond the given instructions, which are intentionally brief to give room for exploring something interesting to you.
To reduce and analyse the numerical data gathered, with emphasis on finding the uncertainty of the final results.
To understand the wider significance of your data
and convey this in a scientific report.

Projects

Projects are regularly updated, but previous projects include:

Laser cooling and trapping of atoms
Entanglement of photons and Bell’s inequality
Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy.
Optical communications
Sub-Doppler atomic spectroscopy

Current students can find more information on Learn Ultra.