Advanced Lab

Last Updated: March 5, 2026

These are the student lab guides for PHYS 4430 — Advanced Laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder. This site is a companion to the Canvas course where you’ll find course-specific information such as due dates and grades.

Lab Guides

• Gaussian Beams Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4
• Diffraction and Fourier Optics
• Michelson Interferometer Week 1 | Week 2
• Modeling and Measuring the Polarization of Light
• Hydrogen and Mercury Spectroscopy
• Laser Spectroscopy
• Absolute Measurement of the Faraday
• Gamma Ray Spectroscopy
• Pulsed NMR
• Lifetime of Muons Generated by Cosmic Rays
• X-Ray Fluorescence