Month: May 2018
Education Engineering Scheme project with MHSG
This year, Laser Quantum has been mentoring a team of four Year 12 students from Manchester High School for Girls in the Education Engineering Scheme (EES). Anoushka, India, Cherry and Chloe took on a project set by Laser Quantum to test “The (un)reliability of screws”. Screws are a vital component of lasers, so we were […]
Laser Quantum Employees run for Teenage Cancer
Laser Quantum’s employees will be taking part in the Simplyhealth Great Manchester Run in order to raise money for charity on 20th May. 23 LQ employees will be running the 10 kilometre route from Portland Street to Deansgate with the goal of raising £1000 for the Teenage Cancer Trust. This is an event that Laser […]
vChirp – online web optics software launched
Laser Quantum has just launched an in-browser version of vChirp, an easy-to-use online software to emulate dispersion and pulse compression calculations for ultrafast experiment design. vChirp has been designed in cooperation with the Institute of Quantum Optics at Leibniz Universität, Hannover to simplify the calculation process for dispersion characteristics of a femtosecond laser pulse propagating […]