Instrumentation for an Undergraduate Crystal Optics Laboratory

本科晶体光学实验室仪器

• 批准号: 9050431
• 负责人: Richard Feinberg
• 金额: $ 0.68万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-05-15 至 1992-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9050431&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Instrumentation; Undergraduate; Crystal; Optics; Laboratory

The Physics Department is acquiring instrumentation which provide students in the Optics Concentration with hands-on exposure to the principles and application of optical crystallography above and beyond the level normally discussed in undergraduate optics and solid state physics courses. The department is purchasing a temperature controlled fluid bath, a polarizing microscope, crystal models, a high voltage power supply and crystal polishing equipment. These instruments allow students to grow high quality water-soluble crystals and to characterize their optical properties. It enables them to construct and study a Glan-Thompson polarizer, a nonlinear frequency doubler and an electro-optic modulator. This project is singificant because it brings to the undergraduate laboratory more extensive exposure to the properties of birefringent nonlinear and electro-optic crystals. These materials are currently the object of a great deal study in graduate, government, and industrial research laboratories. The project enables devices constructed from them at an earlier stage of their careers. Finally, it serves other institutions through the publication of student lab experiments which are being developed.

物理系正在购买仪器，以提供 学生在光学浓度与动手接触， 光学晶体学的原理和应用 超出了本科光学和固体光学中通常讨论的水平， 国家物理课程。 部门正在购买一种温度 控制流体浴，偏光显微镜，晶体模型， 高压电源和晶体抛光设备。 这些 仪器让学生成长高品质的水溶性 晶体，并表征其光学性质。 它使 他们构造和研究格兰-汤普森偏振器，一个非线性 倍频器和电光调制器。 这个项目是 重要的是，它给本科实验室带来了更多的 广泛暴露于双折射非线性和 电光晶体 这些材料目前是 在研究生、政府和工业研究中进行了大量的研究 laboratories. 该项目使由它们构成的设备能够在 他们职业生涯的早期阶段。 最后，它服务于其他 通过出版学生实验室实验， 正在开发中。