Monthly Archives: November 2017

After a summer and part of a fall building an experiment control system – thanks to thesis student Sierra Jubin ’17 for preliminary work – we can finally control our 4-channel DDS to drive AOMs (built by Ashay Patel ’18), … Continue reading →

Our lab uses a home-built high NA lens based on a design by Curtis Volin from GTRI.  Our original lens was performing poorly; it collected lots of light, but did not focus it terribly tightly.  So, using the freeware raytracer … Continue reading →