Physics Student Projects

This collection features papers written by physics students summarizing their experimental work in various areas of physics.

In the quantum optics experiments, a laser is directed at a crystal in such a way that pairs of correlated photons are produced. We are then able to do various experimental studies with these correlated photons. In one of the experiments, one photon of a given pair acts as a “messenger” while the other photon is sent through an arrangement of mirrors and beam splitters. We can control the position of one of the mirrors very precisely and are able to demonstrate interference effects “one photon at a time”. This work was made possible by an equipment grant from the Jonathan Reichert Foundation.