Laboratory for Modern Optics Using the Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment

该项目利用教育技术和计算机的最新进展，为本科生提供交互访问全方位的实验室光学技术，从最简单的光学到最新的高科技光学，同时降低成本，统一物理和工程方面的学习经验。在光学信息的快速和精确处理领域需要国家的卓越地位，要求学生在物理和工程的光学光谱方面接受良好和始终如一的培训。该项目基于CUPLE(综合统一物理学习环境)计划，提供了计算和视频技术的基础。它以一致的方式提供对广泛光学技术的访问，使学生能够以交互方式从熟悉的材料迁移到不太熟悉的材料。该计划是全面的，因为它借鉴了由优秀教育工作者联盟开发的课堂、实验室、讲座演示和基于计算机的材料的创新发展，并统一为学生、讲师和实验人员提供跨不同应用程序和不同媒体的一致用户界面，例如实验室仪器、数据阵列、图形显示和视频记录。这种方法可以使更多的本科生以灵活的方式更密切和更及时地接触实验室经验，与传统方法相比，成本显著降低。本项目正在开发一套现代光学实验模块，将教学模拟与CUPLE环境下的实验相结合。

This project utilizes recent progress in educational techniques and computers to provide undergraduates with interactive access to a full range of laboratory optical technology, from the simplest to the latest high technology optics, while reducing cost and unifying the learning experience in physics and engineering. The need for national preeminence in the area of rapid and precise handling of optical information requires students who are well and consistently trained across the spectrum of optics in physics and engineering. The project is based in CUPLE (Comprehensive Unified Physics Learning Environment) program, which provides a base of computational and video techniques. It provides access to a broad range of optics technology in a consistent manner that enables the student to move in an interactive manner from familiar to less familiar material. This program is comprehensive, because it draws on innovative developments in classroom, laboratory, lecture demonstration, and computer based materials developed by a consortium of excellent educators and unified in that it presents a consistent user interface to students, lecturers, and experimentailsts across different applications and different media, such as laboratory instruments, data arrays, graphical displays, and video recordings. This approach can bring a larger number of undergraduate students into closer and more timely contact with laboratory experience in a flexible manner at significantly reduced cost as compared to conventional methods. The present project is developing a set of trial modules on modern optics combining instruction simulation, and experiments within the CUPLE environment.