Group Meeting Presentations

Technical Aspects of 405nm Confocal Raman Spectroscopy given by Ned Branigan on 7/08/08

Ned tells us about the setup of his experiment, as well as giving some useful information about some particular types of optics and about laser modes.

CBC-STM given by Joonhee Lee on 7/29/08

This talk gives a basic overview of how a scanning-tunneling microscope works, explains the specific features of the CBC STM, and gives an outline for the coming experiments.

Liquid He II and IM-He condensates given by Esa Vehmanen on 8/5/08

Gives some information on superfluid helium and discusses experiments on impurties in liquid helium.

Useful Tools

Compression Distance Calculator

A Mathematica program which takes the central wavelength, spectral bandwidth, and pulse length as inputs and gives the distance to separate prisms for best compression.

Labview program for autocorrelation

Labview program to run the Ocean Optics spectrometer and calculate FWHM and max wavelength

NOTE on the last two, they require sub-vis and have settings specific to the system they were designed on, so use with caution.