Lim Kai Yi

Research Project titled: "An Investigation on how the Coherence and Statistical Properties of Photons affect Photon Bunching using the Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) Effect."

I learnt that photons can be bunched due the way they are generated. Photons generated by lasers arrive randomly in time. Photons generated by thermal sources generally arrive bunched. Photons generated by different light sources have different coherence and statistical properties.

Research Project titled "Finding the magnification and resolution of an image formed by a water droplet lens."

I learnt how to characterise the resolution of a lens using the modulation transfer functions in fourier optics, starting from the generalised pupil function. Aberrations due to imperfections in the water droplet lens were characterised using Zernike Polynomials.

Research Project titled "Using spectrophotometry to determine pollutants in water sources"

I managed to build a spectrophotometer instead of relying on commercially bought ones. I relied on Beer Lambert Law to determine the concentration of analytes in the solution that was being analysed.