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You wrote an analog thesis about 31 years ago, analog31? You've been playing the long game with this account! Appreciate the story, thanks for sharing. Can I a
by throwaway_7274 1y ago
You wrote an analog thesis about 31 years ago, analog31? You've been playing the long game with this account!
Appreciate the story, thanks for sharing. Can I ask what your thesis was on (in whatever way isn't too personally-identifying if that's a concern)?
- analog31 1y agoI anticipated this moment. ;-) It was at a time of extremely rapid development of laser technology, where you built your own lasers to be at the cutting edge, which meant optics, electronics, and in my case, computer control plus data collection. I developed a method of increasing the signal-to-noise for a class of spectroscopy measurements by a factor of roughly 1000. This opened up a number of possible experiments involving otherwise weak effects. My experiment produced some token physics results, but the method that I developed was really the point of it. A couple other labs used my setup, substituting more modern lasers as they became available. Meanwhile, I went into industry, and still work on measurement instrumentation today.
- throwaway_7274 1y agoGood stuff, nothing but respect for that kind of work. AMO people are a different breed. Spending all day interpreting power spectral densities and tracking down ground loops takes a certain je-ne-sais-quoi. Literally. Last time I used a microwave amplifier I plugged it in with the wrong polarity and blew it up!
- analog31 1y agoIt probably required negative power for some unexpected reason. CMOS has spoiled us.