Instrumentation for the Introductory and Advanced Optics Laboratories at Southern Illinois University

该计划的资金用于购买实验室 设备和计算机用于介绍和先进的 物理和工程专业的光学实验课程。 实验室课程是一个新的光学计划的一部分， 南伊利诺伊大学爱德华兹维尔分校（Southern Illinois University Edwardsville）的 介绍性实验室的目的是使用计算机， 数据收集和数据分析的辅助工具， 光学系统建模。先进的实验室是 旨在向学生介绍激光，光纤， 全息术，并为他们提供一个合适的背景， 进行光学研究。虽然光学领域 在其技术重要性方面， 重要的是，没有建立光学程序， 国家公立高等教育机构 伊利诺该计划的目标是利用教师 在光学领域的专业知识，以开发一个模型光学 课程，为学生提供一个适销对路 光学专业。主要仪器设备采购， 该程序包括计算机和数据采集硬件， 沿着供学生在实验中使用的光学元件 全息术、光纤、光谱学和薄膜物理学。 此外，该设备还用于每年一次的 为高中理科学生在整个圣研讨会。 美国国家科学基金会的赠款资金正在与来自 非联邦来源

Funds from this program are being used to acquire laboratory equipment and computers for use in an introductory and advanced optics laboratory course for physics and engineering majors. The laboratory courses are a part of a new optics program being instituted at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. The introductory laboratories are designed to use computers both as an aid to the collection of data, and for data analysis and modeling of optical systems. The advanced laboratory is designed to introduce students to lasers, fiber optics, and holography, and to provide them with a suitable background for conducting research in optics. While the field of optics has grown tremendously in terms of its technological importance, it is significant that there are no established optics programs at public institutions of higher education in the state of Illinois. The objective of the program is to use faculty expertise in the field of optics to develop a model optics curriculum that provides students with a marketable specialization in optics. Major instrumentation purchased under this program includes computers and data acquisition hardware, along with optical components for student use in experiments in holography, fiber-optics, spectroscopy, and thin-film physics. In addition, the equipment is being used in an annual series of workshops for high-school science students throughout the St. Louis area.NSF grant funds are being matched with funds from non-federal sources.