Equipment for Laboratory for Modern Optics Using the Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment

使用综合统一物理学习环境的现代光学实验室设备

• 批准号: 9251862
• 负责人: Richard Fork
• 金额: $ 2.1万
• 依托单位: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• 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: 1992-07-01 至 1994-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9251862&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Equipment; Laboratory; Modern; Optics; Using

We are combining current technology obtained from the field of optical communications with a comprehensive computer-based learning environment as a means of bringing information age optical technology into the undergraduate laboratory at moderate cost. Recent advances in monolithic modelocked semiconductor lasers and rare earth doped optical fiber amplifiers are providing an easily maintained and relatively low cost means of introducing subpicosecond optical pulses produced at high repetition rate into the undergraduate laboratory. The short duration of the pulses and the high peak intensities make a large number of experiments that have not been previously available except to a small number of research workers and advanced graduate students, accessible to undergraduate students. This technology combined with the computerized learning environment provides a means for much of the science and technology underlying high data rate optical communications to be taught to undergraduates in a graphic and easily understood manner. The consistent user interface of the CUPLE (Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment) employed across different media, such as, laboratory instruments, data arrays, graphical displays, and video recordings provides a powerful, but easily accessed teaching tool for conveying both the drama and the relatively simple concepts that characterize this rapidly developing area. The rapid evolution of technology in this field suggests that further increases in reliability and ease of operation and reduction in costs will make this learning environment available to a large number of users at reasonable cost.

我们正在结合从该领域获得的现有技术， 光通信与计算机综合基础 学习环境作为带来信息时代的手段 光学技术进入本科实验室， 成本适中。 单片锁模器件的最新进展 半导体激光器和稀土掺杂光纤 放大器提供了一个易于维护和相对 引入亚皮秒光脉冲的低成本装置 以高重复率进入本科生 实验室 脉冲的短持续时间和高峰 强度使大量的实验，没有 除了少数研究外，以前都可用 工人和高级研究生，可访问 本科生。 这项技术结合了 计算机化的学习环境提供了一种手段， 高数据速率光通信技术 通信要教本科生在一个图形和 容易理解的方式。 的一致用户界面 CUPLE（Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment） 在不同的媒体中使用，例如实验室 仪器、数据阵列、图形显示和视频 录音提供了一个强大的，但易于访问的教学 一种既能传达戏剧性又能传达相对简单的 这些概念是这个快速发展领域的特征。 的 该领域技术的快速发展表明， 进一步提高了可靠性和易于操作， 降低成本将使这种学习环境 以合理的价格提供给大量用户。