First Day In The Lab

I spent approximately 1 hour in the lab today - nowhere near as long as I wanted, but I had to go for my eye test in the afternoon (which required me to bring my car back home first - don't want to be leaving her in Pouladuff overnight!). Sile set me up with some basic optics devices - two lasers, a USB spectrometer and a whole array of screws and metal clamps and insulating tape. I had to obtain an ambient-light spectrum and a spectrum for each of the lasers. The first laser emitted at 540nm - I found the emission to be approximately 531.99nm on-screen (with pixel-limiting resolution) and have not examined the data file yet for the proper peak value. I took a screenshot of the spectra of the ambient light and this green laser. I had to leave before I got a chance to run the larger red laser. I was also running out of clamps to secure it to the breadboard. I'm going back tomorrow to finish this off and copying my spectra to my flash pen - will post some pictures then.