Modern Optics Laboratory with Signal Detection and Processing

本项目是建立一个现代光学实验课程 并完成装备最近建造的教学 实验室 该项目的目的是提高先进的 实验室组成部分的物理课程，通过启动一个 以现代光学器件为中心的实验室课程， 技术，信号检测和处理。 项目 重要的是，它提供了一个重要的下一步， 有意计划，以改善物理方案，并利用 新教师领导层的兴趣、承诺和专业知识 在部门里。 该项目还有一个额外的好处， 鼓励学生继续研究生学习， 当代物理学的话题。 稳态和时间- 解决的实验正在进行的设备 为这个项目提供的，其中包括作为主要部分， 光学台、光子计数器和相关检测器、 空气冷却氩离子激光器，声光调制器，和 数据采集和分析系统。 稳态实验 所要执行的包括单光子衍射、光学衍射 光纤通信，外差和马赫-曾德尔干涉测量， 相干后向散射和微观统计散斑 相关光谱学 时间分辨实验 包括通过无序介质脉冲传播， 荧光测量和时间脉冲宽度 自相关测量。

This project is establishing a modern optics laboratory course and completing the equipping of a recently constructed teaching laboratory. The aim of the project is to improve the advanced laboratory component of the physics curriculum by initiating a laboratory based course centered on modern optical devices and techniques, with signal detection and processing. The project is significant in that it provides an important next step in an intentional plan to improve the physics program and utilize the interests, commitment, and expertise of new faculty leadership in the department. The project also has the added benefit of encouraging students to pursue graduate study by exposing them to contemporary topics in physics. Steady-state and time- resolved experiments are being performed with equipment provided for this project, which include as major pieces, an optical table, a photon-counter and associated detector, an air-cooled Argon ion laser, an acousto-optic modulator, and a data acquisition and analysis system. Steady-state experiments to be performed include single photon diffraction, optical fiber communication, heterodyne and Mach-Zender interferometry, coherent backscattering, and microstatistical speckle correlation spectroscopy. The time-resolved experiments include pulse propagation through disordered media, fluorescence measurements, and temporal pulse width measurements by autocorrelation.