This is the view I’m currently having outside my lab. Not the kind of thing you’ll want when you have delicate and very motion-susceptible interferometers right on the other side of the wall!
Thankfully this will not last long – they are just sorting out the access road which will be widened slightly and brought closer to our building. Although having cars passing by closer than before will also not be very good for us… oh well!
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… or how many LASER warning signs you can fit around an entrance door š .
And yes, I have a interlock system fitted to the lab door, even though I’m not using it (my superluminiscent source is only class IIIB, not too bad – it "only" outputs 6 mW! š )
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Cables, oscilloscopes, fibres popping out of nowhere, Allen keys scattered all over the place… Welcome to my lab š
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… could clean up this heavily corroded mirror. I couldn’t see my reflection in it!
Hello there, and welcome to my personal web page/blog!
My name is Manuel Marques, and Iām a lecturer in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kent (United Kingdom). I am also a researcher in the Applied Optics Group at the same institution. My work lies mostly in the area of Applied Optics, namely white light interferometry and its two/three-dimensional variant, optical coherence tomography.
Outside work I'm a keen runner/sculler/rower/cyclist, and I do enjoy being in the outdoors (photographing them is a bonus, too!). Other hobbies include tinkering with things, both big and small (not always with a positive outcome, I must say), travelling, reading, in no specific order.
