Optics Equipment for a Modern Physics Laboratory

光学教学将与现代物理相结合，为学生学习越来越多地使用激光和光电子学的技术做好准备。这一重点将在入门课程中得到扩展，并将建立一个新的、更高水平的光学、光和现代物理实验室。设计了激光、现代物理学、光纤光学和计算机接口相结合的实验，并成功地进行了测试。该部门将购买用于进行全息和其他干涉测量的光学台和激光器，用于测量光传输特性的光纤设备，以及计算机接口设备。这些实验将与现代物理实验相协调，这些实验几乎不需要额外的设备。在入门课程中将介绍使用该设备的更简单的实验。将光学作为现代物理的一个组成部分来对待，将增加学生对光学现象的理解，特别是那些涉及量子力学概念的光学现象，并使他们为使用电子学连接激光的技术做好准备。

The teaching of optics will be combined with modern physics to prepare students for a technology that increasingly utilizes lasers and opto- electronics. This emphasis will be expanded in introductory courses, and a new, upper-level optics, light, and modern physics laboratory will be established. Experiments have been designed and successfully tested which combine laser light, modern physics, fiber optics, and computer interfacing. The department will purchase optical tables and lasers for making holographic and other interferometric measurements, optical fiber equipment for measuring the characteristics of light transmission, and equipment for computer interfacing. These experiments will be coordinated with experiments in modern physics for which little additional equipment is required. Simpler experiments using this equipment will be introduced into the introductory courses. The treatment of optics as a component of modern physics will increase the students' understanding of optical phenomena, especially those involving quantum mechanical concepts, and prepare them for a technology that uses electronics to interface lasers.