Freshman Hands-On Instructional Laboratory in Modern AppliedOptics For Engineering Students at Cornell

购置实验室教学仪器， 在应用的质量上要有很大的改进， 为康奈尔大学工程专业学生提供光学教学 康奈尔大学的工程物理课程 设备 在这方面取得了实质性的进展， 现有的教学和实验室内容， 已经相当成功，实验室课程“激光和 它在科学、技术和医学中的应用”， 目前康奈尔大学25%的工程师 学生我们认为学生更容易掌握 现代光学中的困难概念， 使用这些工具的经验，并接触到实验， 生动地说明了具体的原则。 实验 正在开发的，展示短光脉冲和低 光水平检测、染料激光调谐、拉曼散射，以及 光谱“指纹”。我们背后的动机 物镜简单;先进光学的广泛使用， 特别是激光，几乎在所有的科学和 工程学科正在迅速发展。尽管如此 事实和广泛发表的未来光子学的预测 在下一个世纪的革命，最小的关注一般是 给予相当数量的美国人足够的教育。 工程本科生在应用的基本原则 光学，以及这些光学工具的实际使用。

Acquisition of laboratory instructional instrumentation allows a quantum improvement to be made in the quality of applied optics instruction offered to Cornell engineering students by the Engineering Physics program at Cornell. The equipment yeilds substantial and material improvement in the instructional and laboratory content of an existing, and already quite successful, laboratory course on "The Laser and Its Applications in Science, Technology and Medicine", a course which is currently taken by 25% of all Cornell engineering students. It is our contention that students more easily grasp difficult concepts in modern optics if they have hands-on experience with these tools and are exposed to experiments that vividly illustrate particular principles. Experiments are being developed that demonstrate short optical pulse and low light level detection, dye laser tuning, Raman scattering, and spectroscopic "finger printing".The motivation behind our objective is simple; the extensive use of advanced optics, and lasers in particular, is pervasive in almost all scientific and engineering disciplines and is rapidly growing. Despite this fact and the widely published forecasts of the coming photonics revolution in the next century, minimal attention is generally given to the adequate education of significant number of U.S. engineering undergraduates in the principles underlying applied optics, and in the practical use of these optical tools.