Lasers in the Undergraduate Curriculum

本科课程中的激光

• 批准号: 9550838
• 负责人: David Cleary
• 金额: $ 3.97万
• 依托单位: Gonzaga University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-05-01 至 1998-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9550838&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Lasers; Undergraduate; Curriculum

Through this grant, the university is purchasing lasers and associated spectroscopic equipment. The approach in the project is to combine the strengths of the chemistry and physics curricula and to take advantage of the small class sizes characteristic of the university. In the upper-division courses, equipment is shared between the two departments and students from the two departments collaborate with each other. An excited state lifetime experiment is being performed by both sets of students. In addition, chemistry students are exploring molecular rotations, light scattering, and vibrational spectroscopy. Using essentially the same equipment, physics students are studying the properties of laser light, measuring the speed of light, exploring nonlinear-optical phenomena, and characterizing dispersion in optical fibers. The project also affects lower-division students. A new course, designed for non-science-majors, centers on holography. In this four-credit course, containing both a lecture and laboratory component, the nature of light is discussed along with introductory optics, principles of measurement, physiology of vision, and quantum versus classical effects. In addition, a historical perspective on many of these topics is presented. Chemistry majors are required to submit a senior research thesis based on experimental work. The equipment purchased expands the areas of research accessible to these students.

通过这笔赠款，该大学正在购买激光器和相关的光谱设备。 该项目的方法是将化学和物理课程的长处联合收割机结合起来，并利用该大学的小班制特点。 在高年级课程中，两个部门之间共享设备，两个部门的学生相互合作。 两组学生正在进行激发态寿命实验。 此外，化学专业的学生还探索分子旋转，光散射和振动光谱。 使用基本相同的设备，物理学生正在研究激光的特性，测量光速，探索非线性光学现象，并描述光纤中的色散。 该项目也影响到低年级学生。 为非理科专业设计的一门新课程以全息术为中心。 在这四个学分的课程，包含讲座和实验室的组成部分，光的性质进行了讨论，沿着介绍光学，测量原理，视觉生理学，量子与经典效应。 此外，对许多这些主题的历史观点。 化学专业的学生必须提交一份基于实验工作的高级研究论文。 所购买的设备扩大了这些学生可进入的研究领域。