Lasers

Construction of a solid-state pulsed laser with Q-switching and intracavity frequency doubling
My undergraduate senior seminar project. Also the story of my first laboratory result that got away.
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Construction of a solid-state pulsed laser with Q-switching and intracavity frequency doubling
Construction of multi-beam optical tweezers and studies of polarization-dependent interactions between optically trapped particles
A summer REU project at Michigan State University investigating polarization-dependent interactions and self-organizing dynamic behavior of optically trapped microscopic particles in a colloidal suspension.
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Construction of multi-beam optical tweezers and studies of polarization-dependent interactions between optically trapped particles