Laboratory Optics: A practical guide to working in an optics lab

Peter Beyersdorf

2014년 7월 · Peter Beyersdorf

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A multimedia interactive guide to developing practical skills for optics research.  Use as a class lab manual, an instructional tool or as an indispensable reference.

In concise, high-def videos, various skills and techniques are demonstrated and explained.  These cover topics for the novice, such as mounting and cleaning of optics, as well as for the more advanced learner, such as balanced detection, and lock-in amplifiers.

Various interactive widgets let you simulate the experience of aligning a laser beam to an optical system, aligning an interferometer to get fringes, or adjust a Fabry-Perot cavity while observing the mode spectrum.  Other tools help you quickly find the Gaussian beam parameters of your laser from measured beam radii, and to calculate the position of a lens or pair of lenses to mode match a laser to a cavity.   

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This book is very useful for the beginner. Our lab have just started to set up the optic experience. Our lab doesn't have any experience dealing with optics. After hours searching the handling optics lecture I found this e- book. This books including the video clip offers me very useful tip which I can get only after many trial and error. It would take too much time without this useful book. This book also contain virtual experiment like aligning the beam which give me the intuition how to dealing with optics. This books is not a simple book but man-to-man tutor in virtual laboratory

Thanks to Peter, I could quickly learn the basics to survive in the experimental optics laboratory. Thank you for sharing precious knowledge, Peter!

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Dr. Beyersdorf is an associate professor of physics at San Jose state University.   He draws on years of experience in research and teaching of experimental optics to provide practical tutorials on some of the most common (and often misunderstood) tasks involved in typical optics experiments.