OPTI 415L/515L: Optical Specifications, Fabrication and Testing Lab
Lab Overview
- Lab Lecture is held on Mondays from 11:00-11:50 pm in Meinel 432
- Lab TAs
- Emily Finan efinan@optics.arizona.edu
- JianBo Zhao jianbozhao@email.arizona.edu
- Labs are held in Meinel 436
Grading
- Undergraduates: 100% Lab Notebook
- Graduate Students: 75% Lab Notebook; 25% 3-5 page paper on a topic pertaining the specs, fab and testing.
Lab Notebooks
The lab notebook is the most important part of the lab. You need to keep your notebook up to date, and write in it as you do the lab. You must use a bound notebook that has numbered pages that cannot come out. Your notebooks must contain everything needed to reproduce the experiment:
- Date, time, lab partner(s)
- Objective of the experiment
- Diagrams of any set-ups
- All observations and comments
- Required calculations with equations
- Answers to the questions from the handouts
The notebook must be neat enough that somebody else reading your notebook could understand what you did. All markings in the lab notebook should be made in pen. It is a good idea to cut out and tape relevant material into your notebook where appropriate. Use digital images where appropriate. It is also useful to keep a table of contents for your notebook.
The notebooks will be graded on the basis of completeness of the lab write-up and answering the questions. Each lab will be graded for the following:
- Preparation: Before starting the lab, the objective should already be entered into the notebook, along with a summary of the preparation that was completed.
- Diagrams of lab setups, Should be concise, yet include important parameters
- Any data, presented in a neat form, including labels
- Observations, should be concise and neat
- Answers to questions if any
Final Paper
At the end of the term, graduate students must submit a 3-5 page paper covering a topic of your choice from this course. The paper, which should be written as an informal technical memo, will be worth 25% of your grade. The paper should present a summary of one of your labs in a complete and concise way. It should include the following:
- Introduction
- Description of the equipment and setup
- Presentation of the data, including uncertainties
- Discussion, including interesting observations
- Lessons learned
The paper is due at the end of the term.
Lab Schedule
Lab Syllabus
- Measuring Paraxial Properties of Lenses I
- Measuring Paraxial Properties of Lenses II
- Star Test & Classical Hartmann Test
- Autocollimator and Point Source Microscope
- Alvarez Plates
- Resolution Testing
- Optical Materials
- Contact Profilometry
- Knife Edge and Ronchi Test
- Moire Deflectometry
- Interferometry