Science with lasers usually requires significant money. Instead, we use 3d-printing and the cheapest optics money can buy.

We want to do real and useful coherent optics experiments, but without the budget. So we are developing an open-hardware platform of 3d-printed parts and knowhow around accessible optical components.

If you ever wondered how much optomechanics you can replace with plastic parts: We are doing the experiment

Let's get together and talk about laser optics. In our talk, we showed our current approach for making laser experiments more accessible. But there are so many interesting ideas out there, inconspicuous sources for optical elements or creative ideas to work around the limitations that hold back hackers from doing more optics. We want to collect them all!