Spring Semester 2006, Stony Brook Physics and Astronomy Department
Faculty responsible for the course: Dominik Schneble Lab S116, Office A106 Ph: 2-8043, office hours: by appointment.
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with Optics at Stony Brook . The students spend half of a semester working with one of the active groups in the physics and astronomy department that are involved with optics. They should plan to be at the laboratory at least four hours a week. At the end of each rotation they make a public presentation (ten minutes maximum) and prepare a web page with their results. This semester there may be possible projects with:
If you have a physical, psychiatric/emotional, medical or learning disability that may impact on your ability to carry out assigned course work, I would urge that you contact the staff in the Disabled Student Services office (DSS), Room 123 ECC Educational Communication Center, 632-6748/TDD. DSS will review your concerns and determine, with you, what accommodations are necessary and appropriate. All information a documentation of disability is confidential.
Archive of Presentations
| Spring 2006 | Rebekah Schiller | Charcacterization of 2-photon response from a LED Schiller4 |
| P. Benjamin Dixon | Slow and Fast Light Dixon2 | |
| Chien-Hung Tseng | ||
| Rebekah Schiller | Polarization and Reflection Schiller3 | |
| P. Benjamin Dixon | MOT Characterization with a CCD camera Dixon1 | |
| Rebekah Schiller | MOT optics Schiller2 | |
| Fall 2005 | Lei Huang | Optical Diffraction with an Acousto Optic Modulator Huang |
| David Sproles | Achieving Ultrahigh Vacuum Sproles3 | |
| Johanna Nelson | Characterizing Dye Laser Components Nelson1 | |
| Rebekah Schiller | Phase Shifting Using Acousto-Optic Modulators Schiller | |
| Bernhard Wurm | Photon Statistics in Iterative Phase Retrieval Algorithm Wurm1 | |
| Ulrike Endesfelder | Optical Vortices Endesfelder1 | |
| Spring 2005 | William Anderson | Rb Saturation Spectroscopy Anderson1 |
| David Sproles | Q-Switched Nd:YAG Laser Alignment Sproles1 | |
| Yan Zhang | Fourier Transform Imaging zhang1 | |
| Yan Zhang | Waveplate Characterization zhang2 | |
| Fall 2004 | Matthias Riedmann | Spectral Interferometry Matthias/index.html |
| Matthias Riedmann | Background Analysis in Synchrotron Measurements Matthias2/index.html | |
| Fall 2003 | Sarah Nichols | Laser Profile Spatial Shaping sarah new/index.html |
| Christian Schmidt | Position Control Systems cbs new/Position control systems.htm | |
| Tatjana Vavilkin | Fiber Amplifiers tatjana new/OptRot.html | |
| Sarah Nichols | X-Ray Microscopy of Human Sperm sarah/index.htm | |
| Christian Schmidt | Coherernt Backscattering cbs webpage.htm | |
| Tatjana Vavilkin | Mirror Surface Characterization Michelson Interferometer tatjana/opr3.html | |
| Spring 2003 | Sarah Campbell | Position Measurements using a Laser Differential Interferometer http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~campbell/optics.html |
| Dominik Maxein | Generation and detection of short THz pulses http://home.arcor.de/dominik.maxein/thz/ | |
| Daniel Pertot | Intensity correlation function of a noise-driven LED http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~dpertot/OpticsRot/Project1/ | |
| Claire Shean | Testing Elements of a Mach-Zender Interferometer http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~cshean/opticsrotation3.html | |
| Sarah Campbell | Interferometer Camera System http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~campbell//optics/weinacht/weinacht.html | |
| Dominik Maxein | Modes in a HeNe cavity http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~dominik/optrot/index.html | |
| Daniel Pertot | Measurement and design of the dispersion of laser mirrors http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~dpertot/OpticsRot/Project2/ | |
| Claire Shean |
Finding the Sources of Loss in a Spectrometer and Magnet System http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~cshean/opticsrotation4.html |
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| Fall 2002 | Sarah Campbell | Injection in Anti-Reflection Coated Diode Lasers http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~campbell |
| Xin Chen | Laser Tweezers http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~xinchen/ | |
| Frank Dimler | Temperature Measurement of Cold Rubidium Atoms http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~fdimler | |
| Dan Li | Laser Mode http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~dli | |
| Huijie Miao | The Single Mode Fiber http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~hmiao/report1 | |
| Patrick Nuernberger | Ti:Sapphire Kerr-Lens Modelocking http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~nuernber/Sapphire.html | |
| Claire Shean | X-Ray Microspectroscopy http://xray1.physics.sunysb.edu/~cshean/optics.htm | |
| Frank Dimler | Application of Cluster Analysis on Infrared Microspectroscopy Data http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~fdimler/index2.html | |
| Dan Li | Bloch Vector http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~dli/Courses/OpticsRotation/Project2BlochVector.htm | |
| Huijie Miao | Photodetector | |
| Patrick Nuernberger | Laguerre Modes http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~nuernber/Laguerre.htm | |
| Claire Shean | Analyzation of Intensity Noise http://grad.physics.sunysb.edu/~cshean/opticsrotation.html |
Site last updated May 15, 2006 by Dominik Schneble