Photoelectronic Detectors Lasers and Fiber Optics: A Tech- nologically Current Approach to the Study of Optics

本笃会学院正在引进一系列新的光学实验室，这些实验室允许学生使用类似于他们在工业和研究中找到的设备来研究光的本质。在研究衍射、黑体辐射和成像等标准光学现象的同时，他们正在学习几种类型的探测器(光电倍增管、光电二极管阵列、CCD)、激光和光纤光学背后的物理学，他们正在熟悉他们在研究生院或工业中可能遇到的工具。使用这些仪器的实验将被引入光学实验室课程，这是所有物理和天文学专业的必修课。同时进行的光学讲座课程正在进行修改，以包括对这些物体及其基本物理的广泛讨论。其中一些设备也被用于高级天文学实验室的演习。所有这些设备都被物理、天文和生物专业的学生用于本科生的研究项目。这样的研究工作是这三个领域的专业的毕业要求，而这些探测器几乎是持续不断的需求。学院将用等额的资金来匹配这笔奖金。

Benedictine College is introducing a series of new laboratories in optics which allow students to study the nature of light with equipment similar to what they will find in industry and research. While investigating such standard optical phenomena as diffraction, blackbody radiation, and image formation they are learning both the physics behind several types of detectors (photomultiplier tubes, photodiode arrays, CCDs), lasers, and fiber optics, and they are becoming familiar with tools that they are likely to encounter in graduate school or in industry. Experiments using these instruments are being introduced into the Optics Laboratory course, which is required of all physics and astronomy majors. The Optics lecture course, taken simultaneously, is being changed to include extensive discussion of these objects and their underlying physics. Some of the equipment is also being used in upper-division astronomy laboratory exercises. All this equipment is being used by physics, astronomy, and biology students in undergraduate research projects. Such research efforts are graduation requirements for majors in these three areas, and these detectors are in almost continual demand. The college is matching the award with an equal amount of funds.//