Department of Physics

Optics and Laser Research Laboratory

Welcome to the Optics and Laser Research Laboratory.

The Optics Laboratory is one of the laboratories under the Physics Department and is offered as a 2-credit practical course (each weekly session lasts 4 hours) for undergraduate physics students. The co-requisite for this course is the 3-credit Optics course. In the Optics Laboratory, students practically examine a number of topics from the Optics course, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Some of the experiments are related to linear (geometric) optics, while others concern wave optics. As we know, optics is one of the most widely used and fascinating branches of physics; therefore, it is essential for students to gain practical familiarity with a number of optical instruments (optical microscopes, lenses, diffraction gratings, lasers, quarter-wave plates, etc.). This is made possible for students through the Optics Laboratory. The list of experiments available in the Optics Laboratory is as follows:

1. Michelson Interferometer (and determining the wavelength of a Helium-Neon laser)
2. Malus's Law (Investigating light polarization)
3. Newton's Rings
4. Reflection coefficients r_s and r_p (Calculating their variations)
5. Prism Spectrometry
6. Diffraction Grating Spectrometry
7. Single-slit and Double-slit Diffraction
8. Quarter-wave Plate
9. Refractometry using Geometric Optics

Head of Optics and Laser Research Laboratory

Ahad Saber

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Optics and laser research experiment facilities