Equipment for Optics Laboratory

物理学为了更好地吸引和留住学生，物理系正在开始新的光学研究和教学重点。在一个新的4学分的研究准备课程中，大约有一半是关于光学的。在研究准备课程中，该项目正在改编和实施由波士顿大学和新泽西理工学院在NSF资助下开发的光学实验。选择实验既是为了让学生为开展全息干涉计量学的独立研究项目做准备，也是为了让他们接触到快速发展的光纤领域。该项目支持激光光束表征设备、模式分析、光纤套件、光学台和硬件。该项目正在调整实验以适应较小的机构规模，并将重点放在全息摄影上。在课程的第一次实施中，学生选择这些实验中的一个作为特殊项目。利用现有的材料和新的设备，他们设置了它，并向他们的同学演示。然后，他们的工作将成为未来学生使用的基础。

Physics (13) In order to better attract and retain students, the physics department is beginning a new research and teaching emphasis in optics. About half of a new 4-credit-hour research preparation course is devoted to optics. For the research preparation course, the project is adapting and implementing optics experiments that were developed at Boston University and New Jersey Institute ofTechnology with funding from NSF. Experiments are chosen to both to prepare students to carry out independent research projects in holographic interferometry and to give them exposure to the rapidly developing field of fiber optics. The project is supporting laser beam characterizing equipment, modal analysis, a fiber optics kit, optical table, and hardware. The project is adapting the experiments to the smaller institutional size and to focus on holography. In the first implementation of the course, students choose one of these experiments as a special project. Using the existing materials and the new equipment, they set it up and demonstrate it to their classmates. Their work is then the basis for use by future students.