Physics Labs
Diverse, state-of-the-art physics labs and equipment facilitate learning.
Laboratories:
- Quantum and nonlinear optics laboratory
- Large holography and laser optics laboratory with a one-meter spectrometer
- Trace gas analysis research laboratory
- Light instructional laboratory
- Modern physics instructional laboratory
- Electronics instructional laboratory
- First-year physics computerized instructional laboratory
- Student computer lab
- Laser cooling and trapping laboratory
- Observatory, with a Meade 14-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with GPS alignment and tracking mechanism, CCD camera and computer
The Physics Department has extensive equipment to facilitate studies including:
- Student computer lab
- Machine shop with a Bridgeport milling machine, lathe, drill presses, power saws and other machining equipment
- More than 10 optical tables
- Extensive computerized instructional experiments
- A variety of lasers, including argon ion, titanium:sapphire, various diode, dye, He:Ne and krypton ion.
- Precision optics
- Ultra-high vacuum systems
Location
Blodgett Hall, 8 Lower Level