Modern Optics and Lasers in the Advanced Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

Ducharme 9451719光学技术已成为每个科学家和工程师教育中日益重要的组成部分。对于物理学家来说，情况尤其如此。此外，激光对本科生具有内在的吸引力，他们往往有很高的动力去建造和应用激光。我们打算通过将现代光学和激光整合到需要智力复兴的高级实验室、本科生研究计划以及拟议的新实验室课程中，来利用激光“磁铁”，该课程将以光学物理和技术的前沿实验为特色。该计划的结构是逐步实施激光和现代光学技术的复杂使用，将它们用作教学工具和激发学生兴趣的手段。该项目将我们三名新教员的研究方向和专业知识，以及其他科学和工程系的当前研究兴趣，以及由国家资助的内布拉斯加州研究计划在UNL建立的几个中心进行的研究整合到我们的高级本科实验室中。该项目将为我们的本科生提供机会，以获得光学物理和技术的概念和技术，他们可能会在他们的职业生涯中使用。新的实验室课程“激光物理和现代光学”将吸引和服务来自其他科学和工程专业以及物理专业的学生。

Ducharme 9451719 Optical technology has become an increasingly important component of the education of every scientist and engineer. This is particularly true for physicists. Moreover, lasers are intrinsically attractive to undergraduates, who are often highly motivated to build and apply them. We intend to capitalize on the laser "magnet" by integrating modern optics and lasers into advanced laboratories in need of intellectual rejuvenation, into the undergraduate research program, and into a proposed new laboratory course which will feature experiments taken from the forefront of optical physics and technology. The program is structured to progressively implement sophisticated uses of lasers and modern optical technologies, using them both as teaching tools and as means of engaging student interest. This project integrates into our advanced undergraduate laboratories the research directions and expertise of three of our newer faculty members, as well as current research interests in other science and engineering departments, and research carried out in several centers established at UNL by the state-funded Nebraska Research Initiative. This program will offer our undergraduates the opportunity to acquire concepts and techniques of optical physics and technology that they will likely use in their careers. The new laboratory course, "Physics of Lasers and Modern Optics," will attract and serve students from other sciences and engineering as well as physics majors.