December 2022

A homemade optical table

A Homemade Optical Table

7 Minute ReadIntroduction An optical table, or bench, is the optical equivalent of the very popular solderless prototyping breadboards that many electronics hobbyists regularly use to test and develop their electronic circuits. In fact the optical table has sometimes been referred to as an optical breadboard, although optical table or bench are the more conventional terms. But […]

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Who Discovered What and When? A slightly amusing historical tale…

3 Minute ReadMany years ago, shortly after I obtained my PhD in physical chemistry, I moved from the UK to go and live in France. Basically I had met a French girl whilst living in Bristol where I was a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Chemistry. Things got serious between us, and I decided to

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