Monday, July 24, 2023
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This past week has been quite uneventful, in all honesty, but I did get quite a bit done at work.
This week at work, I finished my abstract for the final presentation with the help of my mentor, which was interesting because I have never written a formal abstract. Only abstracts for school projects that I don’t think the professor even read. I had the abstract done Thursday, which was nice because I did not have to stress about it this weekend. I also helped my mentor and my postdoc setup up the start of the next part of the experiment, which involves visualizing the interference patterns and ultimately being able to produce a “ghost” image. A “ghost” image is essentially an outline of a picture that we put into the optical setup, but the path of the light that passes through the outline is blocked and doesn’t reach the camera. However, the outline still appears. I did most of the work on aligning the portion of the optical setup that will trigger the camera to take pictures. Which included approximately seven components. I also learned that the camera we are using is 70 thousand dollars. (I have included a picture) That kind of blew my mind.
As for outside-of-work things. I started biking to and from the gym to save money. However, I am starting to work later and later, so I am going to the gym later and later. That means I often bike to and from the gym in the dark, but it’s fine because the path is lit up the whole way there. The first night I biked back after dark I stopped to take a picture of the Kennedy Center. And the photo, I think, turned out rather well.
It’s a short one, but that’s all I got for this week’s blog. See y’all in a week.
Clayton Markech