Hypography moderator wins coveted AIP Prize

[Tormod]

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.

[Moontanman]

Way to go Jay-qu, great job!

[freeztar]

Congrats again!

I think I speak for everyone when I say we're proud to share your company. :naughty:

[Turtle]

Nice job J! Shouldn't you have on protective eye-wear though? :( :D ;)

[pamela]

congratulations!!! :(

[Pyrotex]

Congratulations, Jay-Qu !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

We are all very proud of you.

I'm doubly proud because you transmitted Dark Side of the Moon over your polarization modulation. Way to go -- with style.

[modest]

Congratulations, J. You are without a doubt setting a standard of excellence and it’s a privilege to share your company.

 

~modest

[Cedars]

Congrats Jay-qu! Now I know why you havent been around as much lately.

[Galapagos]

Congrats again!

I think I speak for everyone when I say we're proud to share your company. :)

aye.

congratulations jay-qu! :)

[Jay-qu]

Nice job J! Shouldn't you have on protective eye-wear though? :) :) :naughty:

 

:( Actually we shot the laser on a separate exposure, using liquid nitrogen fog :doh:

 

Thankyou all very much for the kind words!

 

J

[Thunderbird]

Good work jay-qu :)

[Turtle]

Nice job J! Shouldn't you have on protective eye-wear though? :Glasses: :D

:D Actually we shot the laser on a separate exposure, using liquid nitrogen fog ;)

 

Thank you all very much for the kind words!

 

J

 

:) That famous photo of Mr. Tesla sitting in a chair amidst a storm of "lightning", was shot the same way. Great minds think alike. :smart: :hihi:

[arkain101]

Kickass!

 

So what does it sound like? Can't you upload the audio of the sound of photon noise? If I read that right..

[Kayra]

Well earned Cudos J

[REASON]

:)

 

Congratulations on your well deserved recognition, Jay.

 

You have an amazing talent. :(

[theblackalchemist]

Nic1

:)

kudos to you Jay-Q!

:naughty:

 

so when is the nobel coming up ?

TBA

[Jay-qu]

Kickass!

 

So what does it sound like? Can't you upload the audio of the sound of photon noise? If I read that right..

 

I havent recorded the sound of photon noise, but I will try to when we set the experiment back up in the next few weeks :lol: we are going to be doing a bit of extra work with the goal of publishing in the American Journal of Physics as a pedagogical paper.