Integration of Photonics and Electronics in the Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

本科生物理实验室中的光子学和电子学集成

• 批准号: 9751463
• 负责人: Daniel Spiegel
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: Trinity University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-06-01 至 2000-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9751463&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integration; Photonics; Electronics; Undergraduate; Physics

This project is integrating electronics and photonics into a single upper-division physics laboratory course. The new course has been structured to take advantage of the strong pedagogical links between photonics and electronics, and to enable students to obtain both hands-on competence with the instrumentation and a thorough understanding of the theoretical principles. A hands-on electronics course has long been an important staple within many quality undergraduate physics programs. However, due to the enormous recent impact of laser-based photonics technologies, physics undergraduates must also obtain significant experience with the principles of photonics and fiber-optics instrumentation. Research and development in photonics technology has already had major effects on the U.S. economy. As they begin their graduate or industrial careers, physics students clearly benefit from an in-depth understanding of the advantages of photonics over electronics for many applications requiring high bandwidth, low loss, or improved sensitivity. It is imperative that students gain as much hands-on experience as possible, and that the course include current applications employing high-quality single-mode fiber. A lecture course in optics, is being required with the proposed laboratory course. The new laboratory can be taken either for two credits by physics majors, who are carrying out both electronics and photonics experiments, or for one credit by engineering science majors, who are conaentrating on the photonics investigations. The laboratory course structure serves as a model for widespread incorporation of photonics into the undergraduate physics curriculum.

该项目正在将电子学和光子学整合到一门高级物理实验室课程中。新课程的结构是为了利用光子学和电子学之间强大的教学联系，使学生既能动手操作仪器，又能彻底理解理论原理。长期以来，在许多高质量的本科物理课程中，实践电子学课程一直是一门重要的课程。然而，由于最近基于激光的光子学技术的巨大影响，物理学本科生还必须获得光子学和光纤仪器原理的丰富经验。光电子技术的研究和开发已经对美国经济产生了重大影响。当他们开始他们的研究生或工业职业生涯时，物理专业的学生显然受益于深入了解光子学在许多需要高带宽、低损耗或提高灵敏度的应用中相对于电子学的优势。学生必须获得尽可能多的实践经验，并且本课程应包含使用高质量单模光纤的当前应用。拟议的实验室课程需要开设一门光学讲座课程。新实验室可以由物理专业的学生获得两个学分，他们同时进行电子学和光子学实验，或者由工程科学专业的学生获得一个学分，他们专注于光子学的研究。实验室课程结构是将光子学广泛纳入本科物理课程的典范。