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The great thing about this project is all our equipment and testing can be done in our very own lab, located in Rickover 017! Our primary equipment, and their basic uses, are listed below. Additionally, you can check out our laboratory equipment tutorial videos!
Spatial Light Modulators
Spatial Light Modulators serve as our primary device for generation of structured light, or light that carries orbital angular momentum. The lab features one high-speed 1920x1152 pixel SLM, and 2 fast 256x256 pixel SLMs. Additionally, there are several other SLMs that could be set up for operational use.
Creation of Complex Environments
Atmospheric Turbulence Emulator - generates homogenous thermal optical turbulence in a repeatable environment
Water tank (Sebastian) - approximately 2.5 meter long tank filled with distilled water. Optical turbulence is generated using a thermal point source (heater) placed in the center, near the path of propagation of the light
Rayleigh-Benard Turbulence Tank - 1.25 m tank filled with distilled water. The RB tank is characterized by a warm bottom plate and cool top plate which generates natural convective turbulence
Fastec High-Speed Camera
The primary camera used for data collection in the lab is our high-speed camera, which can collect at up to 5000 FPS. The camera can also be synchronized with the SLM for most accurate data collection.
High-Speed Computing Laptops
Our lab is stocked with two, high-end computing laptops used to run optical simulations and to train and test the machine learning networks. Each laptop is the current commercial state-of-the-art and comes equipped with high-speed GPUs for parallel computing.
Lasers, Lenses, and other Optical Equipment
Our lab comes fully stocked with a variety of standard, high-end optical equipment such as stabilized lasers, mirrors, lenses, beam-splitters, and more!
Shack-Hartman (Wavefront) Sensors
Scintillometer
The scintillometer is used to measure the scintillation through an environment, typically over large distances through the atmosphere.
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