The LHU Physics - Optics Class
Trip to Thorlabs
Newto, NJ
Monday-27-April-2009
Paticipants:
Jose Baltazer
Dayne Crowley
Ryan Hemm
Scott Hinaman
Jeff Parks
Matt Pautz
John Reid (faculty)
Laxmidhar Senepati (faculty)
Jim Wheeler
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Chris Johns gives us an overview of Thorlab Optical Components |
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Lock Haven University Physics Major Alum, Chris Johns, now works at Thorlabs. He arranged a tour of Thorlabs for our Spring 2009 Optics
Class. We left at 7AM, and got there at 10:30AM.
Chris gave us an overview tour from 10:30-12:00. What a great job he did showing us around! I was so proud! Really knows his stuff.
Really explained thing well. Chris got us some pizza fore lunch (Thanks!) and while we ate he explained optical bandwidth for
fiber optics. Great explanation. He should be a teacher.
After lunch we split into two groups and were given detailed tours of various areas. Chris gave us some T-shirts and cool pens before we left at
around 3:30.
On the ride back, besides talking about optics, we did story riddles. (A guy is in an elevator and the elevator stops. At that instant he knows
his wife is dead.)
Pictures of our overview tour with Chris.
Electronics:
Rich Bladek – EBU leader
Ed Church – Senior design engineer
Rich and Ed show us the details of how the electronics are designed and put together.
Kaitlin Buffington – Engineer
Kaitlin shows and discusses with us the details of how fiber optic coupling and beam alignment is done.
Paul Reisen – Design Engineer (swept source laser oct)
James Jiang – R&D Engineer (Fabry Perot cavity demo)
Paul shows explains and demonstrates the OCT (Optical Coherence Tomagraphy) Scanner.
James explains and demonstrates the Fabry Perot Interferometer.
Rick Chiong – MBU leader
Mechanical
Rick shows us how mechancal parts are used and then how they are constructed.
John Taranto – ASOM and Adaptive Optics
John gives a detailed explanation of the wide field microscope.
Bweh Esembeson – Ph.D. Applications Engineer
Optical Tweeezers
Bweh demonstrates how the force from laser light can be used to trap and control small particles.
