Links For My Group
This page contains a list of links aimed
at assisting members of my group. Advanced students will have
their own lists, so this page was designed particularly with the
beginning student in mind.
Table of Contents
Beginning Students
Physics department
Lab and department computer use
Purchasing
Research
Safety
Travel
Tutorials and Resources
Who To Tell What

You must read the following before working in the lab. Send
me e-mail when you have done so.
Here are some odds and ends that you might find useful. Read
them if you like. (Eventually you will need to know this.)
- Click here for quick
reads on general laser operation. Try the first one or two items
in the list for basic laser information. We, like most short
pulse laser based laboratories, use chirped pulse amplication.
There are some links on that as well.
- A
spectroscopy tutorial from NIST. Very useful for getting
up to speed on terminology used in the lab.
- Purchasing
- Receiving
- Stores
For supplies available directly from the University.
Note the listings for hazardous materials information, and the
purchasing and receiving home pages.
- Thomas Register
(use this to find a company or product)
Travel How-To Guide on
how to cover conference costs
Expedia Travel or Travelocity can help you
plan and book your flight
OSU
travel policies defines the rules for traveling on University
business
- The sine-bar and its application
in a tunable dye laser
- Floating point math
This is a tutorial I downloaded. It's long but very readable
and necessary reading if you are serious about writing numerical
code.
- Matlab
A tutorial. Start matlab up and work through this.
- ProEngineer
- Genplot information sheets
Although MathLab might soon become our laboratory standard for
data analysis and publication quality figures, I use Genplot.
These information sheets are supplements to the manual and on-line
help. They show the results of using various settings. Make sure
to print these using a color printer.
- Media Conversions
It often happens that you need to convert one media type into
another. This link contains notes I've made for myself on how
to perform various conversions. Many of the notes will be incomprehensible
to anyone but me, but they provide a fair list of some of the
media conversion resources available. If something looks useful,
just ask me about it.
- PowerPoint Pictures For
Talks
A collection of images and information I've found useful for
making talks. This is an individual thing and you may not find
these to be useful. If you want to look at them, download the
link and save it on disk, then open it. Manipulation of some
of the images is subtle - ask if you have trouble.
- Accidents - I need to know right away. If you can't
find me, try Mark Reed (292-6090), then John Whitcomb (292-0207).
- Conferences
- Before a conference, read the Travel
How-To Guide
- After a conference, send e-mail to Tim
Randles <tcr@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu> and Melissa
Weber <weber.254@osu.edu>. Tim is part of the computer
group and he will add a notice on the department web page. Melissa
is the College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences' Director
of Communications and Outreach and the one responsible for publicizing
our department. The e-mail should include the conference title,
date, and location as well as the title of your talk.
- Directory changes (new phone number, new office number,
home address, etc.) should be routed through Robin Prothro in
the main office.
- For changes to department web pages, send e-mail to
webmaster@mps.ohio-state.edu.