Modern Optics and Lasers in the Advanced Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

光学技术已经成为每个科学家和工程师教育中越来越重要的组成部分。对于物理学家来说尤其如此。此外，激光在本质上对本科生有吸引力，他们通常有很强的动力去制造和应用它们。我们打算利用激光“磁石”，将现代光学和激光整合到需要智力复兴的先进实验室中，纳入本科研究计划，并纳入拟议的新实验课程，该课程将以光学物理和技术的前沿实验为特色。该计划旨在逐步实现激光和现代光学技术的复杂应用，将其作为教学工具和吸引学生兴趣的手段。这个项目整合了我们先进的本科实验室的研究方向和专业知识，我们的三个新教师，以及当前的研究兴趣在其他科学和工程部门，以及在UNL由国家资助的内布拉斯加州研究计划建立的几个中心进行的研究。这个项目将为我们的本科生提供获得他们可能在他们的职业生涯中使用的光学物理和技术的概念和技术的机会。新的实验课程“激光与现代光学物理学”将吸引并服务于其他科学、工程和物理专业的学生。

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.