{"id":558,"date":"2008-07-14T11:36:11","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T16:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=558"},"modified":"2008-07-14T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T16:36:11","slug":"is-it-a-spice-rack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/558","title":{"rendered":"Is it a Spice Rack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacafe.com\/watch\/1381543\/laser_interferometer_homemade_for_20\/\">DIY Michelson interferometer<\/a> by the Celtic Mad Scientist.<\/p>\n<p>In a standard Michelson interferometer, the beamsplitter would actually go at 90\u00ba to the shown orientation, so that each beam hits a mirror, but it&#8217;s all good.  If your light is polarized, you&#8217;ll want to make sure that&#8217;s vertical, lest you be near <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brewster's_angle\">Brewster&#8217;s angle<\/a> when you bounce off the beam splitter.<\/p>\n<p>Homer says, &#8220;Safen up!  Do not look into laser with remaining eye&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t end up like the Russian <a href=\"\/\/news.sky.com\/skynews\/Home\/World-News\/Russian-Ravers-Partially-Blinded-By-Outdoor-Laser-Light-Show\/Article\/200807215033820?lpos=World%2BNews_5&amp;lid=ARTICLE_15033820_Russian%2BRavers%2BPartially%2BBlinded%2BBy%2BOutdoor%2BLaser%2BLight%2BShow\">Ravers who were injured<\/a> when the organizers erected a tent and used the lasers &#8220;indoors.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, it&#8217;s a DIY Michelson interferometer by the Celtic Mad Scientist. In a standard Michelson interferometer, the beamsplitter would actually go at 90\u00ba to the shown orientation, so that each beam hits a mirror, but it&#8217;s all good. If your &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/558\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiments","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}