I finally finished my 4th year lab reports today. At 8:40am this morning, I uploaded the last of four very, very long lab reports up to RapidShare. I had intentions of getting them bound but I completely forgot to bring a wallet to college with me. I've been working solid on them for 7 days - not eating, sleeping, showering. Not even taking midday interludes for Guitar Hero! Combined, the reports are 120 pages long, have 19500 words, too many images and even more graphs. Now I can finally launch myself into my WGM project (something which will incur just as much work at the end of term no doubt)!
I have been doing a bit of Googling for the project every time I got sick of the sight of Origin / Word / Scion Image / Excel in the past week and I have found some very nice web pages and PDFs about the geometry of WGMs to complement the papers I have already.
- http://www.etsu.edu/math/preprints/oe2004.pdf
- www.chm.bris.ac.uk/~chjpr/Research/WGM.htm
- metrology.hut.fi/courses/s108-j/Nano2.pdf
- http://www.photonics.com/content/spectra/2007/October/research/89207.aspx
- http://www.uoregon.edu/~noeckel/microlasers.php
Today, we had a seminar by Phil Jones from UCL titled Optical Tweezers: Microbubbles, nanotubes and super-resolution and it was essentially a variation on the applications of what my project is about. Very interesting to actually see clips of the optical trapping of microbubbles - a project I had orginally choosen for fourth year. One part that fascinated me was the group's wish to 'squeeze' these microbubbles, which results in a supersonic "microjet" - a very destructive force for biological cells!
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