What are quantum rainnows: KS5 - Spectroscopy

Scientists working on the QCUMbER project led by the University of Oxford have found ways to imprint quantum pulses of light with spectra. This would potentially allow us to send and receive more information, more securely, through fibre optic networks. A key part of the process of sending information uses spectroscopy. This is a tool used for a variety of different scientific research.

In this lesson students make their own spectroscope and find out more about how emission lines are formed.

Learning Outcomes:

• Light from various sources can be split into its component parts using prisms or diffraction gratings.
• Heated elements produce a set of emission lines that are characteristic to that particular element.
• Light from stars, including our sun, has lines in characteristic places that correspond to the emission lines seen in its component elements.

See more at: https://www.oxfordsparks.ox.ac.uk/content/what-are-quantum-rainbows