A Diode-Laser Experiments Workshop

尽管激光给光学和许多其他科学领域的研究带来了革命性的变化，但成本和复杂性的障碍在很大程度上使它们被排除在本科课程和实验室之外。这个项目的目标是运营一个研讨会，使物理学家和化学家能够使用半导体激光的令人兴奋的新可能性，为学生带来演示和研究机会。为了实现这一目标，参加为期一周的研讨会的学员将直接亲身体验一套半导体激光器实验，并将接受关于半导体激光器复制和操作此类实验的能力的研讨会形式的指导。他们还将成为后续支持社区的一部分，旨在帮助他们克服自己实验室中的障碍。该研讨会将引起物理学家和化学物理学家的兴趣，他们希望将现代可调谐激光方法带到光学、电学和磁学、量子力学和相关实验室课程的学生手中。

Though lasers have revolutionized research in optics and many other fields of science, obstacles of cost and complexity have for the most part kept them out of the undergraduate curriculum and laboratories. The goal of this project is the operation of a workshop which will empower physicists and chemist to use exciting new possibilities with diode lasers to bring demonstrations and research opportunities before students. To accomplish this, attendees at a week-long workshop will have direct, hands-on experience with a suite of diode-laser experiments, and will receive seminar-format instruction in diode-laser competencies for replication and operation of such experiments. They will also become part of a follow-up support community intended to help them surmount obstacles in their own laboratories. The workshop will be of interest to physicists, and also chemical physicists, who want to bring modern tunable-laser methods into the hands of students in courses on optics, electricity and magnetism, quantum mechanics, and associated laboratory courses.