Photoelectronic Detectors Lasers and Fiber Optics: A Tech- nologically Current Approach to the Study of Optics

本尼迪克特学院正在引进一系列新的光学实验室，让学生们用类似于工业和研究中的设备来研究光的本质。在研究衍射、黑体辐射和成像等标准光学现象的同时，他们也在学习几种探测器（光电倍增管、光电二极管阵列、ccd）、激光和光纤背后的物理原理，并逐渐熟悉他们在研究生院或工业中可能遇到的工具。所有物理和天文学专业的学生都必须在光学实验课程中进行使用这些仪器的实验。与此同时，光学讲座课程也被修改为包括对这些物体及其基础物理的广泛讨论。其中一些设备也被用于高级天文学实验室练习。所有这些设备都被物理学、天文学和生物学的本科生在研究项目中使用。这样的研究努力是这三个领域专业的毕业要求，这些探测器几乎是持续的需求。该学院将提供等额的奖学金。//

Benedictine College is introducing a series of new laboratories in optics which allow students to study the nature of light with equipment similar to what they will find in industry and research. While investigating such standard optical phenomena as diffraction, blackbody radiation, and image formation they are learning both the physics behind several types of detectors (photomultiplier tubes, photodiode arrays, CCDs), lasers, and fiber optics, and they are becoming familiar with tools that they are likely to encounter in graduate school or in industry. Experiments using these instruments are being introduced into the Optics Laboratory course, which is required of all physics and astronomy majors. The Optics lecture course, taken simultaneously, is being changed to include extensive discussion of these objects and their underlying physics. Some of the equipment is also being used in upper-division astronomy laboratory exercises. All this equipment is being used by physics, astronomy, and biology students in undergraduate research projects. Such research efforts are graduation requirements for majors in these three areas, and these detectors are in almost continual demand. The college is matching the award with an equal amount of funds.//