Alignment Intensive Optics Laboratory
Course Description
This is a three-week, in-person lab experience that can be taken in total or broken up into separate one- or two-week sessions. All laboratory units are equivalent to OPT 454 MS HOME Laboratory (OPT 401, OPT 402, and OPT 403 in succession). Each experiment is divided up into six- or twelve-hour sessions where students will construct optical systems from individual components encompassing disciplines utilizing polarization and wave retardance, fiber lasers, acousto-optics, diffraction, second harmonic generation, photovoltaic and photoconductive detection, continuous-wave infrared lasers, interferometry, and so much more. Space is limited.
2023: offered in person
Session A
Monday, May 22 – Friday, May 26, 2023 [OPT 401 Equivalent]
- AM lab: 9 a.m. – noon
- PM lab: 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Session B
Tuesday, May 30 – Friday, June 2, 2023 [OPT 402 Equivalent]
- AM lab: 9 a.m. – noon
- PM lab: 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Session C
Monday, June 5 – Friday, June 9, 2023 [OPT 403 Equivalent]
- AM lab: 9 a.m. – noon
- PM lab: 1:30 – 4:30 p.m.