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2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

JoVE Journal

The Generation of Higher-order Laguerre-Gauss Optical Beams for High-precision Interferometry

Ludovico Carbone¹, Paul Fulda¹, Charlotte Bond¹, Frank Brueckner¹, Daniel Brown¹, Mengyao Wang¹, Deepali Lodhia¹, Rebecca Palmer¹, Andreas Freise¹

¹School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham

Large laser-interferometers are being constructed to create a new type of astronomy based on gravitational waves. Their sensitivities, as for many other high-precision experiments, are approaching fundamental noise limits such as the atomic vibration of their components. We are pioneering technologies to overcome these limits using novel laser beam shapes.

Biology

Reduced-gravity Environment Hardware Demonstrations of a Prototype Miniaturized Flow Cytometer and Companion Microfluidic Mixing Technology

William S. Phipps^*1, Zhizhong Yin^*1, Candice Bae¹, Julia Z. Sharpe¹, Andrew M. Bishara², Emily S. Nelson³, Aaron S. Weaver³, Daniel Brown⁴, Terri L. McKay³, DeVon Griffin³, Eugene Y. Chan¹

¹DNA Medicine Institute, ²Harvard Medical School, ³NASA Glenn Research Center, ⁴ZIN Technologies

Spaceflight blood diagnostics need innovation. Few demonstrations have been published illustrating in-flight, reduced-gravity health diagnostic technology. Here we present a method for construction and operation of a parabolic flight test rig for a prototype point-of-care flow-cytometry design, with components and preparation strategies adaptable to other setups.