Tools

• Gaussian beam propagation: Set up lenses and see how a beam propagates.
• Beam expander optimizer: Automatically find two lenses to magnify (or reduce) the size of a beam.
• Laser focus/collimation calculator: Calculate how a lens focuses or collimates a beam.
• Shot noise calculator: Find the quantum power fluctuations of a beam, helpful wheen choosing detectors.

Things/Games

• Human feedback cooling: stop a mechanical oscillator while dealing with realistic lab shenanigans.
• Flags: flashcard-type tool to memorize the flags of the world.

Thesis

Useful articles

Quantum Mechanics: with a focus on quantum optics experiments

• "Introduction to quantum noise, measurement, and amplification." (A. A. Clerk et al. 2010): The standard quantum limit and how power spectral densities are used in quantum optics.

Laser beams: their propagation through optical systems

• "Laser Beams and Resonators" (H. Kogelnik and T. Li 1966): How Hermite-Gaussian beams propagate and why optical cavities have different frequencies for different spatial modes.
• "Lens-System Diffraction Integral Written in Terms of Matrix Optics*" (Stuart A. Collins 1970)": Find the electrical field after transmission through an optical system described by an ABCD matrix (the Collins integral). It includes results for arbitrary order Hermite-Gaussian beams.
• "W. Joyce and B. DeLoach, "Alignment of Gaussian beams," Appl. Opt. 23, 4187-4196 (1984)": Power transfer between different laser beams.

About me

• Profile at the university's website
• My GitHub profile