Janelle Shane

Unknown User: Hi Janelle, its Zak over at UCOP. I realize we haven't talked in a while and for some reason I don't have your email address saved anymore. I wanted to let you know we (finally) have finished the video about you while you were

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

Petri dish art by Xiao Hui Lau [http://xiaohuilau.com/2015/07/a-yeasty-4th-of-july/] Hui (pronounced “Hway”) explains: > I present you with possibly one of the more complicated pieces I’ve done so far. This is a special kind of agar (CHROMagar) plate featuring yeast! The different colors on this

This seemed like a good day to post some rainbow laser modes! Light in a circular cavity makes a variety of standing wave patterns, some of which look like flowers, wagon wheels, or even tie-fighter spaceships. These images are from my simulations of the light in the cavities of nanolasers

Our new 3D lab printer makes strange Gothic support scaffolding.