Events

Colin Shear is a senior in Physics and in the University Honors College. His thesis work was supervised by Prof. Brady Gibbons of Materials Science/Mechanical Engineering.

Daniel Gruss is a graduating senior in Physics and in the University Honors College. The public portion of his Honors thesis defense will be from 4:00-4:30 pm.

Optical tweezers are capable of trapping micron sized particles through the transfer of the
momentum of light. These capabilities are expanded through the use of computer controlled holograms
for beam shaping. This hologram creation is facilitated through the use of a spatial light modulator,
which is a liquid crystal device used to vary the phase information incident laser light. This thesis