Summer 2027 Internship - Experimental Lasers (Undergraduate)
- Denver, CO
- Internship
- Posted
Skills
Job description
Responsibilities
•Assemble, align, and operate pulsed laser setups and optical beamlines alongside an Experimental Lasers mentor.
•Build and calibrate diagnostics for pulse energy, duration, spectrum, and beam profile, and reduce the raw data to results.
•Compare measurements against first-order models from textbooks and the published literature.
•Help plan and run experiments on a team project, keeping clear records of setups, data, and findings.
•Present your results to the team and at a company-wide Lunch and Learn at the end of the summer.
Qualifications
•Education: Pursuing a BS in physics, optics, electrical engineering, or a related field, with at least sophomore year completed by summer 2027.
•Experience: Hands-on lab work through an upper-division lab course, a research group, senior design, or an independent build project.
•Clear written and verbal communication.
•Available to work full-time onsite in Denver for all 12 weeks.
•Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. permanent resident (current Green Card holder), or lawfully admitted into the U.S. as a refugee or granted asylum.
Desired
•Familiarity with pulsed lasers or harmonic frequency conversion.
•Exposure to pulse diagnostics such as energy meters, photodiodes, spectrometers, or beam profilers, and to analyzing the data in Python, MATLAB, or similar.
•Background working around vacuum systems, high voltage, or Class 4 lasers under a safety program.
•Skilled at optical alignment from a lab course, research group, or personal project.