Pictures of your lab (experimentalists & theoreticians)

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The discussion centers around sharing images of various physics labs, particularly laser and theoretical labs. Participants showcase their work environments, with one user detailing a nonlinear optics lab where an Argon laser is used to generate different colored beams through a series of processes. There is a playful exchange about the authenticity of the images, with some users humorously questioning the cleanliness of the lab and the visibility of laser beams. Others share their own lab setups, including theoretical workspaces filled with books, and engage in light-hearted banter about safety in labs and the nature of their experiments. The conversation reflects a mix of technical details about laser systems and a camaraderie among those in the scientific community.
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Attach the best pictures of the lab you work in here!
Theoreticians can attach pictures of their powerful pc's!

My Laser Lab:
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/5e71c5fd82.jpg
 
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n0_3sc said:
Attach the best pictures of the lab you work in here!
Theoreticians can attach pictures of their powerful pc's!

My Laser Lab:
http://www.greencine.com/images/static/goldfinger3.jpg
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Q:Do you expect me to pay?
A:Noooooooo mr. bond...I EX-pect you to DIEEEE!
 
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n0 3c, you should describe what's going on in your lab. What experiment(s) are you running?
 
Hi-tech Christmas Lights?
 
Seeing as no-one wants to play, I'll just go ahead and answer ks_physicist's question.
It is a nonlinear optics lab. Argon (blue) laser is converted to the green beam which is used to pump the dye laser creating the red beam. Finally it goes into a photonic crystal fiber to observe raman and parametric amplification.

Boy this thread isn't going to last long is it...
 
Are you in Albuquerque? I think Sandia (or maybe Los Alamos) has quite the laser lab, if I remember right.
 
binzing said:
Are you in Albuquerque? I think Sandia (or maybe Los Alamos) has quite the laser lab, if I remember right.

Many universities have laser labs - I'm in New Zealand.
 
Cyrus said:
Q:Do you expect me to pay?
A:Noooooooo mr. bond...I EX-pect you to DIEEEE!

:smile::smile: I love that line from the 007 moves.
 
Cyrus said:
Q:Do you expect me to pay?
A:Noooooooo mr. bond...I EX-pect you to DIEEEE!

s/pay/talk/
 
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Dr. Evil has a gigantic laser beam.
 
  • #11
My lab doesn't have lasers. :frown:
 
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I don't even have a lab!
 
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n0_3sc said:
Attach the best pictures of the lab you work in here!
Theoreticians can attach pictures of their powerful pc's!

My Laser Lab:
http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/5e71c5fd82.jpg
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pretty lights... :!) can't.. stop.. looking...
 
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Cyrus said:
I don't even have a lab!

You can come to my lab. You'll love it. We have puzzles and cheese and shock-collars. :approve:
 
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I have a virtual lab. Since I don't have access to huge telescopes, spectoscopes, etc, I have to steal data and images from NASA, CalTech, HyperLeda, SDSS, etc, etc. I hope they don't catch me. :rolleyes:
 
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Either you photoshopped in the beams or you need to clean up the dust in your lab if they are that obvious.
Looks like you attempt to breed allen keys isn't working - they are just ignoring each other. I was working on a theory that optical tables are a sort of black hole for M6 allen keys.
 
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Is that a Ribena bottle in the top left corner?

I was going to scold you for having food in the lab, but then I remembered that Ribena doesn't actually contain anything from a biological source.
 
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mgb_phys said:
Either you photoshopped in the beams or you need to clean up the dust in your lab if they are that obvious.
Looks like you attempt to breed allen keys isn't working - they are just ignoring each other. I was working on a theory that optical tables are a sort of black hole for M6 allen keys.

You are the first person that has responded saying its fake out of the many many people I've shown them too. I admire your honesty.
To answer your question - there is no photoshop whatsoever. The beams are >1.5W CW, and if you've used high power lasers you would no that even in a 99% dust free environment the beam is still visible because the scattering power is soo strong. I admit that this lab is not even 60% dust free.
If I still don't convince you, would you like me too take a picture of that table with the lights on?
For the rest of the pictures, I have posted them on gpforums:
http://www.gpforums.co.nz/showthread.php?postid=5222422#post5222422

I would've thought most people on PF work as academics hence photos of your labs etc.
 
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oedipa maas said:
Is that a Ribena bottle in the top left corner?

I was going to scold you for having food in the lab, but then I remembered that Ribena doesn't actually contain anything from a biological source.

HAHAHA Yes it is! We keep empty bottles lying around to put pieces of cut fiber's. Bare fibers are very sharp and extremely painful when pierced through the skin.
 
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The beams are >1.5W CW
Scary - I prefer things under 5mW.
It's always disapointing to photographers, how ever much LN2 boil off or canned air we spray around they can't see the laser beam like in the Bond movie.

I assume all the beam covers and edge of table guards were removed for this shot ?
 
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This is where the magic happens (and no these aren't pics of my bedroom you sillies).
 

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1 more pic

(best instrument ever invented)
 

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Math Is Hard said:
You can come to my lab. You'll love it. We have puzzles and cheese and shock-collars. :approve:

Arent we kinky...
 
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mgb_phys said:
I assume all the beam covers and edge of table guards were removed for this shot ?

Uhh...beam covers? lol... I know what you mean, and its dodgy when the safety officer comes to the labs for an evaluation - they just have no clue on how dangerous those power levels are. All they do is make sure we wear our safety goggles and we get an "A++".
 
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gravenewworld said:
1 more pic

(best instrument ever invented)

lol "attachment waiting approval"...c'mon guys - we want lab pics not porn pics.
 
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Math Is Hard said:
pretty lights... :!) can't.. stop.. looking...

If the OP was following correct safety procedures, he is wearing laser safety goggles with sufficient OD to make that scene invisible to him.

He like the rest of us only gets to see the colors in his pics.
 
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Math Is Hard said:
You can come to my lab. You'll love it. We have puzzles and cheese and shock-collars. :approve:


And she seemed like such a nice girl.
 
  • #28
This is a cool thread, Pdog come take a pic of mine at some point so I can post. I came too look for you. :S
 
  • #30
Nice! This thread is going to kill!
 
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Cyrus said:
Arent we kinky...

Ivan Seeking said:
And she seemed like such a nice girl.

It's all in the name of science. Really. o:)
 
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Keep 'em coming! Working in a place like those posted was, and still is, my very childhood dream. :smile:
 
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Math Is Hard said:
It's all in the name of science. Really. o:)

:smile: Yes, I used to use that line on Tsu all the time.
 
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I would post a pic of my lab but I am a theoretician semi... so would a pencil and paper do
 
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NoobixCube said:
I would post a pic of my lab but I am a theoretician semi... so would a pencil and paper do

As long as the pencil is some kind of high power laser and the paper is some human being :biggrin:
Think you can manage that?:-p
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
The Theoretician's lab
Half a brain?
 
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Gokul43201 said:
Half a brain?

Well you know, they're very, very left brained.
 
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Gokul43201 said:
Half a brain?

Your entire lab is a corner?
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
Your entire lab is a corner?
Actually it's just the bottom half of the corner. I share that corner with another grad student - he has the top half, where he runs some kind of anti-gravity experiments.
 
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Gokul43201 said:
Actually it's just the bottom half of the corner. I share that corner with another grad student - he has the top half, where he runs some kind of anti-gravity experiments.

:smile: Okay, you got me.

Has the anti-gravity caused any problems, or is it well collimated?
 
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Heres my lab as promised!
 

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George Jones said:
I am theoretician; here are my books.

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/5069/office2id7.th.jpg

"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good." Samuel Johnson
Great tag line. I hope Isackson's 'Einstein' on the desk there was inclination. I certainly enjoyed it.
 
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mheslep said:
Great tag line. I hope Isackson's 'Einstein' on the desk there was inclination. I certainly enjoyed it.

My wife and I both read it, and we both enjoyed it.
 

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