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• Sam Birtwell - post graduate physics student

• Q. What made you apply to work at ORC?

• Q. You’re working on the effect of the environmental on optical fibres. Why do you need to do that?

• Q. Have you found any optical fibres that do dissolve?

• Q. What conclusion have you come to?

• Q. In your third year your dissertation was about trapping small spheres using light. How does that work?

• Q. Why do you want to use a laser beam to pick up a small sphere?

• Q. What sort if things can the optical crystals do to the beams of light?

• Q. Can other things filter out odd wavelengths of light?

• Q. Moving pieces of DNA around using a laser sounds interesting. What could you use that for?

• Q. Now you are going on to your final year and you will do another project on optics. What is it this time?

• Q. That sounds like you are putting light into a crystal and getting light out that has changed colour. How does that work?

• Q. Some people confuse Photonics with Optoelectronics. What is the difference?

• Q. This sounds like optical computers. Are optical computers possible in the future?

• Graham Gilchrist - post graduate physics student

• Mukhzeer Shahimin - post graduate bioengineering student

• Alastair Muir & Robin Cole - undergraduate physics students

• Huw Major - undergraduate electronic engineering student

Sam Birtwell - post graduate physics student

Mini Bio

Sam Birtwell - Physics student at University of Southampton

A - levels: Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics.

Best Subject: Physics. Had a particularly good teacher in year 8 who made him interested

Hated: sport

This year Sam got a summer job working at the Optoelectronics Research Centre for three months. He’s a student at the Department of Physics and has just finished his third year.

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