Welcome

Welcome to Stephen F. Jacob’s website. Here you will find information on the Professor Emeritus of Optical Sciences, including his research, history, and love of optics.

• Make Your Own Sine Wave Sculpture
• Wavy Diffraction Gratings
• How a Diffraction Grating Works
• Advanced Experiments with Diffraction Gratings
• Discovering the Fingerprints of the Atoms
• Sun Clock Illuminates Sphere Optics Study
• Thermal Expansivity and Temporal Stability Measurements
• Fabry-Perot Viewed Many Ways
• Measuring the Wavelength of a Light Using a Ruler
• Giant Glass Sphere for OSC Lobby
• Making the Sphere