Lab

Each bench is a 3D model built from real catalog parts, with the physics worked out underneath. Drag things, change settings, read the numbers. On a phone, the simplified versions are coming; for now these work best on a laptop.

Michelson interferometer

Fringes, path difference, tilt and the beamsplitter ratio.

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Ray tracing on a real bench

Ø2″ lenses on a rail: the ray-diagram rays traced through real glass, real images on a screen.

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Mode converter

Lock a triangular cavity to one beam shape, then turn it into a donut beam with two cylindrical lenses, the idea behind my PhD work on LIGO mode matching.

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Rainbow machine

Sunlight on a sun-tracking breadboard: a prism stripe and a one-ball rainbow ring.

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4f lens system (Fourier optics)

Two lenses and a filter in the Fourier plane: erase a mesh, keep only the edges.

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Cavity alignment trainer

Walk the beam through two targets, retro-reflect, and flash the cavity modes into a clean TEM₀₀.

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Imaging a Bell test with entangled photons

Entangled photons from a BBO crystal: a phase object on one, a filter on the other, and a Bell violation in the camera image.

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Squeezed light

A bow-tie OPO and balanced homodyne detection push quantum noise below the shot-noise floor.

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Acousto-optic modulator basics

Bragg diffraction, frequency shift, switching speed, double pass.

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Hologram bench

Record a hologram with the room lights off, then replay it.

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Ray box: mirrors and lenses

Law of reflection, focal points, absorbers and templates.

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Coming next

• Real-bench photos and build notes (optical, mechanical, electrical)
• What to measure, what to notice, and open questions for each experiment
• Phone-friendly versions