Modern Optics Teaching Environment

现代光学教学环境

• 批准号: 9251578
• 负责人: Eugene Hecht
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Adelphi University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-08-01 至 1995-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9251578&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Modern; Optics; Teaching; Environment

In the last 30 years optics has undergone a revivification, driven to a large extent by the application of lasers and computers. The manifestations of what has been a real revolution are evident everywhere from credit-card holograms to high-resolution television. With few exceptions, this technological whirlwind is predicated on advances that are not well understood outside the immediate confines of the discipline. Accordingly, we have begun to create a Modern Optics Teaching Environment (MOTE) where all undergraduates can learn about, and indeed experience, at least the basics of these developments and where physics majors can get a state-of- the-art introduction to contemporary optics. Spectroscopy is the window into the machinery of the atom and is central to the pedagogical development of modern physics and optics. Accordingly, one of the most highly used pieces of equipment in the MOTE is a 1.0 m research-grade monochromator. Studies of sources are conducted using Fabry-Perot and Michelson interferometers. The MOTE focuses on the laser inasmuch as it is one of the premiere and most ubiquitous instruments in the exploration of contemporary physics. Students build gas and dye lasers and study their operating characteristics. Once the fundamentals of radiant energy are familiar, and the laser as a versatile source is mastered, applications to nonlinear optics, holography, spectroscopy, and fiber optics are explored with confidence. Seniors also perform thesis research in laser spectroscopy using a pulsed nitrogen laser and a pumped dye laser.

在过去的30年里，光学经历了一次复兴， 在很大程度上由激光的应用驱动， 电脑 一个真实的 从信用卡全息图到 高分辨率电视 除了少数例外， 技术旋风是建立在进步的基础上的， 很好地理解了直接范围之外的 纪律 因此，我们开始创建一个现代的 光学教学环境（MOTE），所有本科生都可以 学习，实际上体验，至少是基本的 这些发展和物理专业的学生可以得到一个国家的- 当代光学的最新介绍 光谱学是了解原子机制的窗口， 是现代物理学教学发展的核心， 光学. 因此，其中一个最常用的作品 MOTE中的设备是1.0米研究级单色仪。 使用法布里-珀罗和 迈克尔逊干涉仪 MOTE聚焦于激光 因为它是一个首演和最普遍的 在探索当代物理学的仪器。 学生建立气体和染料激光器，并研究其操作 特色 一旦辐射能的基本原理 熟悉的，和激光作为一个多功能的来源是掌握， 应用于非线性光学、全息术、光谱学和 我们充满信心地探索光纤。 老年人也 使用脉冲激光器进行激光光谱学的论文研究 氮激光器和泵浦染料激光器。