{"id":1964,"date":"2009-03-28T05:19:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T10:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2009-03-28T05:19:37","modified_gmt":"2009-03-28T10:19:37","slug":"no-more-breadbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/1964","title":{"rendered":"No More Breadbox"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned before<\/a> that I’m bigger than a breadbox. But that description will have to change. It’s not that I’m appreciably smaller (though I have lost some mass from running a net energy deficit the last several lunar cycles), it’s that I now have a much geekier description to use.<\/p>\n

A colleague has been setting up a pulsed laser system, in anticipation of getting into frequency combs<\/a> for optical time transfer using fibers as well as eventually doing optical clocks. And, frankly, he dropped the ball. He got the system running and announced it had a pulse, but neglected to shout “Give my creature life!” or “It \u2026 is \u2026 ALIVE!” at any stage of the work. Anyway, we were watching him tweak the system and were looking at the signal on an oscilloscope, and got to the point where we wanted a much larger bandwidth, so we started looking for the spectrum analyzer.<\/p>\n

“Where is it?”
\n“I think it’s in the lab. I saw it around here somewhere.”<\/p>\n

[Group members begin to fan out]<\/p>\n

“Oh, there it is, behind Tom.”<\/p>\n

I had been blocking the view of it. Ergo, I can now be described as being “bigger than a spectrum analyzer.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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