Departments of ECE and Physics

University of Colorado at Boulder

ADVANCED OPTICS LAB -ECEN 5606

Class Organization
 Class website
• http://ece.colorado.edu/~ecen5606/
• One stop shopping for lab write ups,
lecture notes (e.g. these), reference
materials…
• There will be (soon) a bulletin board on
this site for class announcements,
questions, advice, gripes…
 Calendar
Monday Calendar notes Lab Lecturer Lecture Reports
12-Jan First day of classes Lectures during lab Cundiff
See below
19-Jan MLK day, Monday Lectures during lab Cundiff
26-Jan McLeod Interferometers
2-Feb Group 1 (Phys) McLeod Fourier Optics
9-Feb McLeod Pol/Crystal
16-Feb Ye External cavity
23-Feb Group 2 (ECE) Ye Nonlin Spectrosocopy
1-Mar Ye Laser cooling
8-Mar McLeod Linear spectroscopy
Group 3 (Phys)
15-Mar McLeod Photorefractive xtals
22-Mar Spring Break
29-Mar Group 3 (Phys) McLeod AO Devices Report 1 due
5-Apr
12-Apr Group 4 (ECE)
19-Apr
26-Apr Last week classes Lab/optics clean-up Report 2 due
 First rotation lecture
Next two weeks during lab time
Day Time Room Lecturer
Monday January 12 1-2 PM EE 1B73 McLeod/All
Wednesday January 14 CANCELLED DUE TO STUDENT CONFLICTS
Thursday January 15 2-4 PM JILA 10B Cundiff
Thursday January 22 2-4 PM JILA 10B Cundiff

CHANGES SINCE LECTURE

If you have unavoidable conflicts with the two Thursday lectures, please contact Dr. Cundiff.
 Lab groups
• 3 students per group
• Group assignments will be on web site
• Use list on Dr. McLeod’s door to switch
• Each rotation we will re-arrange groups
 Grading
• Prelabs 35%
• Labs (notebooks) 45%
• Reports 20%
• You will choose one lab from the first six
weeks and one lab from the second six
weeks on which to write a formal report.
 Lab access
• ECEE 105
– Access via “button key”
– To get your key to open this door and/or to
actually get a key, fill out a key request form in
the ECE main office or EE Stores (across the
hall)
• Duane G214
– Access via key pad
– You will be given the punch code
 Lab books
Basics
• Buy two (you’ll alternate)
• Type: Numbered pages that can not be
removed, quadrille ruled, ≥ 100 pages.
National 43-648 for example.
• Create a table of contents on the first page
and maintain it.
• Work in ink. When you make a mistake,
cross it out but don’t obliterate it.
 Pre-lab procedures
Poor preparation leads to long lab durations.
You will be prepared.
• The pre-labs consist of
– Suggested reading. Take the suggestion.
– “Homework-like” problems to help you learn the subject.
• You will do the pre-labs in your notebooks and turn them
in by Friday at 5:00 pm the week before the lab.
• We will grade the pre-lab and return the notebooks
during the lecture Monday.
• If your pre-lab is judged unacceptable it will be marked
as such. You must rework the prelab (on the following
pages of your book) and get it approved by an instructor
before you are allowed in the lab.
• If you don’t, you will miss that lab and not be allowed
to make it up.
 Lab books
Flow
• In and Out boxes will be provided in the lab for you to turn in
and retrieve your notebooks.
• The prelab for the coming week is due on or before Friday at
5:00 in the In box. Prelabs will be graded over the weekend
and returned Monday in class
• Notebooks for completed labs should be left in the lab In box
when you finish or at the latest by 12:00 noon the following
day and will be available in the Out box by your next lab
session (1 week).
• Note that you may have to begin work on the prelab without
the proper notebook, then copy it in once it’s available,
particularly if your lab day is Thursday.
• Late labs will be docked 25% for each day late. Late prelabs
will be docked 50% if turned in late and, if not turned in at
class Monday, will prevent you from participating in the lab.
 Lab books
Content
• Style of an industrial notebook sufficient to hand to an attorney
– Complete but concise, understandable by the non-expert.
– You may cut out sections of the lab handout and paste them in
• Record the lab directly after the prelab (you’ll use the results)
• Recipe for success. For each experiment…
1. Record the set up with good, labeled drawings. Use a straight-edge.
2. Describe your procedures well but don’t write a book about it. Include
observations, tricks or suggestions for improvement. Steps 1 and 2
should allow someone (e.g. you in 10 years) to repeat the experiment.
3. Record the data with tables and labeled graphs (by hand is OK).
Computer analysis/plotting later is great but not required. Tape in hard
copy data and label it. Include units!
4. Make conclusions based on your data. Note possible sources of error,
quantitatively if possible.
• We will be grading 27 prelabs and 27 labs every 7 days. If your
notebook is illegible, you will fail.
– Box any important results (lab and prelab)