Center for Laser Studies Undergraduate Research Associate Program

该项目旨在吸引本科生，特别是女性和少数族裔，进入激光和光学研究，重点是作为一项新兴技术的光波技术。许多最近的研究，包括美国国家科学院最近关于光子学的报告，都认为这是未来关键的技术增长领域之一。这些学生继续进入研究生院的灵感将来自参与激光研究跨学科中心的研究项目。这个研究组织不同寻常，因为它的工作人员和研究生人口中都有很大比例的女性和少数族裔。在，该中心得到了REU网站的资助，并开发了一个非常成功的项目，其中包括三名奇卡诺人，两名女性和一名黑人学生。这使该中心有机会更好地招收少数民族和女性本科生，并提供更多参与研究的机会，激励他们继续攻读研究生。这些项目包括半导体阵列的噪声特性、非线性服务的表征、异质结激光器、固态激光器、光纤光动力耳机的制造和表征，以及薄膜中的热传输。

This program is designed to attract undergraduate, particularly women and minorities, into lasers and optics research, with emphasis on lightwave technology as an emerging technology. Many recent studies, including the National of Academies recent report on Photonics, identify this as one of the key technical growth areas of the future. Inspiration for these students to continue into graduate school will come from participating in research projects within the interdisciplinary Center for Laser Studies. This research organization is unusual for its large percentage of women and minorities, both on its staff and in its graduate student population. In 1989 the Center received REU site funding and developed a very successful program which included three Chicanos, two females and one black student. This gives the Center a chance to better recruit minority and women undergraduates and to provide more opportunity to participate in research, inspiring them to continue in graduate students. The projects include noise properties of semiconductor arrays, characterization of nonlinear services, fabrication and characterization of heterojunction lasers, solid stat lasers, fiber- optics power-by-light headset, and thermal transport in thin films.