Optics and Photonics for the 21st Century An Innovative Interdisciplinary Modular Laboratory Curriculum

光子学是在通信、计算、控制、成像和信息处理中利用光子与电子一起工作或取代电子。密尔沃基工程学院启动了一项重要的计划，将现代光学和光子学的原理和应用纳入入门和中级物理和工程课程。该计划的一个重要组成部分是继续发展本科应用光学，光子学和传感器以及高速摄像学的新实验室。本课程发展计划的主要目标是创建一套现代光学和光子学实验模块，用于本科物理和工程课程。模块将为20个主题开发，包括分束器、法布里-珀罗干涉仪、光纤、散斑光学、高速摄像和空间滤波。其中一些模块将包括相关的计算机多媒体软件包。这些模块的设计将激发学生的热情和兴趣，并优化他们对光学和光子学中最重要和最基本概念的概念理解。根据最新的教学研究，这些概念不仅将嵌入基本原理和历史的框架中，而且还将为学生提供使用现代光学和光子学工具和设备的实践经验。模块的设计和评估将由一个跨学科的教授团队和选定的学生完成，并由罗斯-霍尔曼理工学院的亚瑟·韦斯特教授和卡尔文学院的大卫·范·巴克教授提供建议和指导。经过一段时间的测试和修订后，这些模块将用于我们将作为我们传播计划的一部分提供的本科教师增强计划。之后，我们将在面向大学预科教师和工业工程师的拓展项目中使用这些模块。由于每所学校可以将一个或多个模块整合到现有课程中，或者可以使用一组模块作为基础来开发自己的新课程，因此，模块化方法将提供灵活性和适应性，以确保各种机构都可以使用这些模块。

Photonics is the use of photons to work with or replace electrons in communications, computing, control, imaging, and information processing. Milwaukee School of Engineering has initiated a significant program to incorporate the principles and applications of modern optics and photonics into the introductory and intermediate physics and engineering courses. An important part of this program is the continuing development of new laboratories in Undergraduate Applied Optics, Photonics and Sensors, and High Speed Vidography. The main goal of the proposed curricular development program will be the creation of a set of modern optics and photonics laboratory Modules for use in undergraduate physics and engineering programs. Modules will be developed for 20 topics including beam splitters, Fabry-Perot interferometers, fiber optics, speckle optics, high speed videography, and spatial ffltering. Some of these modules will include associated computer-multimedia software packages. The modules will be designed to stimulate students' enthusiasm and interest and to optimize their conceptual understanding of the most important and fundamental concepts in optics and photonics. In accord with the most recent pedagogical research, the concepts will not only be embedded in the frameworks of basic principles and history, but will also give students practical experience with the tools and apparatus of modern optics and photonics. The design and evaluation of the modules will be accomplished by an interdisciplinary team of professors and selected students with advice and guidance from Professor Arthur Western of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and Professor David Van Baak of Calvin College. After a period of testing and revision, the modules will be used in Undergraduate Faculty Enhancement programs that we will offer as part of our dissemination plan. Later we will use the modules in outreach programs for pre-college teachers and for engineers from industry. The modula r approach will provide the flexibility and adaptability that should ensure use of the modules by a wide variety of institutions, since each school may incorporate one or more modules into their existing courses, or may use a collection of modules as substrates to develop their own new courses.