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Tag: optics

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Free snacks with purchase of new equipment: it’s a thing in optics research labs. Thorlabs started including boxes of “Lab Snacks” whenever there was extra room in a flat-rate shipment. Optics researchers are of course completely non-susceptible to inducements of this sort. Yet now, coincidentally, Newport Optics is including
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It turns out sapphire is a very useful high-tech material, due to its hardness, insulating properties, optical transparency, and thermal conductivity. By starting with a tiny seed crystal, a huge column of highly pure crystal can be slowly drawn out of a molten vat, producing big honking specimens like the
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ThorLabs displays a keen understanding of graduate school - as of a few years ago, they’ve included snack boxes with many of their orders of optics components. The boxes include things like trail mix, granola bars, goldfish crackers, and fruit snacks - not, of course, that this influences any
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Traffic looks like fireworks when viewed through diffraction glasses.  You can pick up diffraction glasses for pretty cheap online - they’re popular as a trippy party effect.  But you can also think of them as giving you the superpower of spectrometer vision, the ability to tell apart different kinds
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Hand + cold water = fun with thermal camera Here’s another picture from when I was “testing out the thermal camera”.  I think I’ve well-established now that the thermal camera works, and that I’ve figured out how to capture video from it.  Now I’m just… getting even more
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