Project Ideas

The ultimate Malus Law experiment

Interference patterns from single photons

The optical table as a giant thermometer

Optical table guitar

Mach-Zender interferometer to measure water salinity

Detection and isolation of quantum optical vortices

Polarization rotation vs polarization filtering

Optical magnetometer

Up/down conversion of orbital angular momentum states

Camera vs radiometer calibration

Some projects that are being worked on:

Refractive index of air

Optical quality of photolithographic sheet material

Telescope repair and alignment

Faraday rotation in magneto-optical materials

conformational response of photo-active polymers to illumination