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In our new work published in Optics Express, we present a calibration method for twisted nematic liquid crystals (TNLCs) that allows accurate polarization manipulation. The calibration method does not require knowledge of parameters or a model of the constituent TNLC
The facade of our building is covered by dark stone and our lab is equipped by a huge south-east facing window. The air condition in the lab consists of a small wall-mounted AC unit and mechanical ventilation input and output
There are better ways than using email, that’s for sure. You can find a nice review of various collaborative writing tools on LaTeX wikibook: SpanDeX and ShareLaTeX allow for only one collaborator per project within their “free” licenses. WriteLaTeX is like EtherPad for
Sage is a free mathematics software system. It is built out of nearly 100 open-source packages and features a unified Python interface. There is a nice video introduction to Sage by William Stein.
There is a very nice template for a scientific poster made by Felix Breuer using Inkscape, shared under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. For many purposes it is maybe too fancy and you could find a square-panel layout more
With Google SketchUp it is easy to make 3D models and even quite complicated 3D scenes. Libraries of optomechanical components can speed up the process of an optomechanical setup documentation, presentation or prototyping. Newport offers 170 product models via Google’s