Jayden Newstead, known to Hypographers as Jay-qu, has been awarded the Third Year Physics Practical Award from the Australian Insititute of Physics.
We shamelessly plug the article posted at his school, Monash University:
Jay elected to substitute some of the standard practicals for the opportunity to work on a research mini-project. Instead of doing a third-year practical, Jay designed a new one.
Jay's new experiment, titled “
Faraday Rotation: A New Twist on Signal Transmission”, uses a laser beam to transmit an audio signal from the student's iPod (or similar) across the lab to a receiver which converts the laser beam back into sound.
The “twist” is the use of polarisation modulation, rather than more conventional amplitude or frequency modulation, to encode the signal onto the laser beam.
Project supervisor Dr Lincoln Turner suggested that Jay use the unconventional modulation mode as it allows extremely high-fidelity transmission with the residual noise due to the finite number of photons in the laser beam
“It enables students to ‘hear’ that the light beam is made up on individual photons”, Dr Turner said. The new practical will become part of the third-year teaching laboratory in 2009.
Story stolen from here: School of Physics (Monash University) | News
Congratulations, Jay-qu!!!! Hypography is proud of you.
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