So I had a meeting at 9:30 I woke up at 9:28 two minutes later I was in a meeting
I think these Zoom
meetings have been very efficient and
even if the pandemic is over
I really wish this practice sticks
because I don't have to travel I don't
have to
walk to the meeting rooms i don't have
to waste time chit-chatting
prp-meeting
yeah sure you sacrifice your
socialization bit but those are usually
not very productive anyway
especially if you have a free trial version of Zoom
and like your meeting is over in 45 minutes
It's like
gotta get going
i think today i'm gonna take you guys to
the lab with me
a few vlogs ago I kinda took you guys to the lab kinda
this time Ii hope to
explain uh things to you live
as I am doing stuff so you kind of get an
idea what it's really like to be in the lab
and what most of my time is spent on
I think i'm gonna spend most of my time
looking for stuff in the lab
Every day I set one goal for
each day one simple goal that I know I
can accomplish
so that things don't feel too overwhelming
so that I feel like I
move forward every time I complete these tasks
if i were to look at a bigger
picture of what is left to be done
I think i'm gonna go insane
Covid with lab restriction
definitely
slowed down my momentum when i came back
from the U.S. i spent a couple months
wrote the paper and i was so ready to be
back in the lab i was
pumped full of energy and suddenly
things were shut down
and I think this is where good advisors
come in handy
someone who understands mental health
and willing to work with you
and give you whatever you need to get
through i have been very lucky that i
was given
the chance to manage my own schedule and
work at my own pace
otherwise i don't think my sanity will
last until the end of my phd
i took some measurement yesterday and
today what i want to do is just to
quickly check the amount of power that
goes into the photodiode and right now
i'm just scanning
looking at an air signal to see that yet
more power was
the same as yesterday's and the reason
you want to measure the power going into
your diode along with your measurement
is that in the future if you ever want
to calculate your shot noise you need to
know
how much power did you have going into
your photodiode
oops i dropped the camera still
recording
i think my handwriting would put doctors
to shame if you're a doctor watching
this is your handwriting resume
i want to know right now i'm just
thinking about what i might need
for the experiment so i think
we need to add a subtractors two pid
boards
two amplifiers
this shifter sorry one pid
one prem another 3m
no pre-m and amplifier
it's not working
disha are you using all the board on
there diesel
yeah are you using all of them yes okay
oh there's something over there also
using that too
in the end yes you can use it i am sad
about two micron stuff i would have
gotten everything i need from the two
micron table
terry you're the man can i still
start from two micron yeah why not yes
i swear this is all i'm gonna take
the dark purple are the stuff i already
have and the light purple
stuff that i have just acquired so i
think most of them got a shake mark i
just noticed that
this guy doesn't have an on off switch
you see this one here
doesn't have an on off switch
guess we're gonna find another one
now we have three amplifiers right next
to each other
and none of them work
look at all these boards and i hope i
have enough space in my rack
we'll wing it as it's gone off it is 4
30 right now
that means lunchtime
that's rugby for you
that's a family of ducklings right there
that is super cute
and we are back in our afternoon lab
session
all i want to accomplish this afternoon
is to install a
fiber ewing that's it that's all i want
to do this afternoon
oh this is a really
snuggly one
now that's your cladding and your core
if you ever have to do fiber you don't
want shit on the black
circle this one looks pretty good
actually
what i want to do next is to hook up
this fiber EOM
between the two fibers that i already
have i was planning to use the fiber eom
at the beginning
i kind of left a junction here so that
the fiber eon can go
in between when i need one and now it's
time no
no no no no no look at this fussy thing
it's really hard to see but the fiber is
broken
i think i'm gonna go ask somebody who
knows more than me about fiber eom or
fiber in general maybe that's just a
sketchy looking thing that works which
is a
normal thing in this lab and because it
is now
5 pm i think i'm gonna go
upstairs ask for some opinions and just
go
straight home there's not much i can do
in an hour
you don't want to rush things that's is
bad you may think one hour sounds like a
lot but nah
in the lab not really
so those name list was introduced
because
there's only a few number of people can
be in the lab
at one time and it used to be such a
small number that these tags were
invented if you see 10 names there just
don't go in but now i think the number
of people has increased to like 46
people
none of these taken into account how
well the air flows which worries me but
because camera has no case so this is
not super
important
this actually looks pretty cool i'm
gonna try to get a drone shot here real
quick
oh somebody's dog ran loose
