Optics Equipment for a Modern Physics Laboratory

光学教学将与现代物理学相结合，使学生为越来越多地利用激光和光电子技术做好准备。这一重点将在导论课程中得到扩展，并将建立一个新的高级光学、光和现代物理实验室。将激光、现代物理、光纤和计算机接口相结合，设计并成功地进行了实验。该部门将购买用于全息和其他干涉测量的光学台和激光器，用于测量光传输特性的光纤设备，以及用于计算机接口的设备。这些实验将与几乎不需要额外设备的现代物理学实验相协调。在导论课程中将介绍使用该设备的简单实验。将光学作为现代物理学的一个组成部分来处理，将增加学生对光学现象的理解，特别是那些涉及量子力学概念的现象，并为他们使用电子技术连接激光做好准备。

The teaching of optics will be combined with modern physics to prepare students for a technology that increasingly utilizes lasers and opto- electronics. This emphasis will be expanded in introductory courses, and a new, upper-level optics, light, and modern physics laboratory will be established. Experiments have been designed and successfully tested which combine laser light, modern physics, fiber optics, and computer interfacing. The department will purchase optical tables and lasers for making holographic and other interferometric measurements, optical fiber equipment for measuring the characteristics of light transmission, and equipment for computer interfacing. These experiments will be coordinated with experiments in modern physics for which little additional equipment is required. Simpler experiments using this equipment will be introduced into the introductory courses. The treatment of optics as a component of modern physics will increase the students' understanding of optical phenomena, especially those involving quantum mechanical concepts, and prepare them for a technology that uses electronics to interface lasers.