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The Complex Propagation Of Light Explained Visually: How To Make A Hologram, Bruno Ray Becher
The Complex Propagation Of Light Explained Visually: How To Make A Hologram, Bruno Ray Becher
Senior Projects Spring 2021
The complexity of light’s wave nature is shown in the paths that light takes. In this project I will show several useful ways to imagine and predict how light will travel from one place to another. Once light is produced it does not immediately fill a room, instead it undulates through free space as if the space itself was a fluid. Once we understand the way light flows and interacts with its environment not only can we predict and control its shape with a hologram, but also discover clues which give secrets about where the light has been. Telescopes and …
Production Of Entangled Photons Via Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion, Logan P. Kaelbling
Production Of Entangled Photons Via Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion, Logan P. Kaelbling
Senior Projects Spring 2020
Quantum entanglement, a phenomenon in which the behavior of one particle is somehow immediately correlated with and informed by what is happening to a partner particle a long distance away, has been a pivotal part of the formulation of quantum theory as we know it today and is currently generating many promising avenues of research. As such, finding ways to reliably and inexpensively generate systems of entangled particles for research purposes has become crucial. For my project, I attempt to set up a system that generates energy- and polarization-entangled photons via a technique called spontaneous parametric down conversion. This method …
An Echo Of Light, Anaka Marie Wetch
An Echo Of Light, Anaka Marie Wetch
Senior Projects Spring 2020
My senior project film an Echo of Light is an experimental 16mm film exploring light as both a metaphysical and physical process. I became interested in light during my studies in holography, which is a medium revolving around the interference of light. I studied holography independently and with the guidance of professionals in the field. My holographic work is oriented around the natural world and its micro-constituents. I examined and photographed substances, such as salt, pyrite, and quartz with the scanning electron microscope at Bard. These materials have striking crystalline geometry which I intend to explore through the light dependent …
Opticks:, Fyodor Andreievich Shiryaev
Opticks:, Fyodor Andreievich Shiryaev
Senior Projects Spring 2019
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts of Bard College.