The Advanced Laboratory Course has three teaching goals: To provide students with a variety of experimentalist skills, to expose students to a collection of topics in experimental physics, and to provide a sense of the nature of independent research. The Laboratory itself has a large inventory of instrumentation and equipment, including mechanical, electronic, and optical components, that support a broad spectrum of experiments.
The Advanced Laboratory has two phases. The first phase consists of pre-designed experiments, chosen by the student from a list covering topics in Electronics, Modern Physics, and Optics. A written report follows the completion of each experiment. About mid-semester, the student begins to conceive of an independent experimental project covering any field relevant to experimental physics. This project is the focus of the second phase, beginning in early April. The instructors make every effort to support original and creative projects. At the end of the semester, the student submits an extended project report and also gives a short oral presentation.
| Henry Kapteyn | phone: 2-8198 |
email: Henry.Kapteyn@colorado.edu | JILA A703 |
| Matt Glaser | phone: 2-3029 |
email: Matthew.Glaser@colorado.edu | Duane F515 |
| Tuesdays |
| January 13 Overview (Kapteyn and Glaser) |
| January 20 Laser safety and optics care (Kapteyn) |
January 27 |
| February 3 Vacuum systems, spectroscopy (Dessau) |
| February 10 Scanning probe microscopy (McElroy) |
| February 17 Confocal microscopy, optical trapping (Smalyukh) |
February 24 |
| March 3 Microfluidics (Glaser) |
| March 10 Keck lab tour, nanofab (Rogers) |
| March 17 X-ray scattering (Clark) |