News: Honours in Physics subtheme - Optics lasers and photonics
Exploring the core of supernovae using gravitational wave observations
![A graphical representation of a supernova](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-12/supernova02-carlknox-ozgrav-swinburne.jpg?h=309e12e8&itok=xzjEfvww)
Honours project: this project involves producing simulated populations, injecting them in read data, reconstruct the events with cWB and investigating which distributional test performs better in detecting the population.
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Intensity noise suppression of mid-infrared lasers for gravitational wave lasers
![Mid-infrared laser](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-12/mid-ir-laser-copy.jpg?h=309e12e8&itok=qVtLzFec)
Honours project: this project will investigate the intensity fluctuations of these lasers for the first time and design stabilization systems to ensure that these lasers meet the exacting requirements of the latest upgrades to gravitational wave detectors.
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Sub quantum noise limited position sensors for gravitational wave detectors
![LIGO Hanford Observatory](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-12/ligo.jpg?h=707772c7&itok=mEzkenDT)
Honours project: in this project you will investigate a new laser-based position detector that will hopefully surpass these limits and allow the low frequency performance of gravitational wave detectors to improved.
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Quantum Mechanical Theory and Experiment
![Dr James Quach](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/news-ramsay-fellow-james-quach-lg.jpg?h=a240aad1&itok=r2-YC_KQ)
Honours projects: Accurate knowledge of optical parameters is becoming increasingly important for a wide range of scientific and industrial applications.
Sensing and Spectroscopy
![Bio sensing IPAS](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-09/research-bio-sensing-ipas-13747_UoA.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=Yk7O1iN0)
Honours projects: Accurate knowledge of optical parameters is becoming increasingly important for a wide range of scientific and industrial applications.
Testing for irradiated foods
![Food market](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-10/food-market-9205_UoA.jpg?h=78e8aac7&itok=jqpQ-Iag)
Honours project: Optimise methodologies to detect irradiated food by optically-stimulated luminescence.
Fossils under a new light
![Fossil front visible image Georgios Tsiminis](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-fossil-front-visible.jpg?h=b646a0fe&itok=rsvzpMcx)
Honours projects: Use new fluorescence imaging techniques to analyse fossils that range in age from half-a-billion to some tens of thousands of years old.
Saving megafauna from bacteria
![A skeleton of a Marsupial Lion (Thylacoleo carnifex) in the Victoria Fossil Cave, Naracoorte Caves National Park Karora, Public domain](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-thylacoleo_skeleton_in_Naracoorte_Caves.jpg?h=2f83cd36&itok=LadQJXBS)
Honours projects: Identify and image biofilms that threaten the Naracoorte Caves National Park fossils.
It’s space water, but not as we know it
![Full moon. Image: Gregory H. Revera, CC BY-SA 3.0](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2020-11/honours-full-moon.jpg?h=bfc5f87a&itok=d7Xyypqw)
Honours projects: Explore laser-induced fluorescence of water and aqueous minerals for space applications.
Optical fibres in space for high bandwidth and black hole detection
![International Space Station - Image by NASA](/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2021-01/space-iss-nasa-201587.jpg?h=08b866d1&itok=sVsXhfLF)
Honours project: Explore the creation of high-purity glass aboard the International Space Station to unlock internet bandwidth limits and improve gravitational wave detectors.
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