Computer-Aided Data Acquisition and Control for Photonics Education

兰迪·S·莱恩巴格将于9551776财年在俄勒冈理工大学支付27,435美元，克拉马斯瀑布，或976018801 ILI-仪器项目：工程学标题：光子学教育的计算机辅助数据采集和控制在过去十年中，计算机在光子学实验室中的作用有了显着的提高。使用计算机来执行实验室光学仪器的数据采集和控制、光学图像处理、建模、模拟、数值分析和呈现能力，现在是光电子行业的标准程序。激光光学工程技术(LOET)计划一直在利用计算机在一些LOET实验班和高级项目中完成上述任务的一小部分，整个LOET学生干部只有三(3)台Macintosh计算机用于实验室。由于缺乏足够的计算机、数据采集硬件和软件，对全面光学教育绝对必要的重要实验根本无法进行。目前，不存在进行任何光学图像处理的能力。这项拨款申请的目标是获得更多的计算机、CCD摄像机以及数据采集硬件和软件，使LOET计划能够扩展其能力，以运行常规使用此类设备的有意义的实验室实验。此外，这笔助学金还将允许LOET学生接触光学图像处理方面的实验和技术，这是现代光学工程中的一个重要课题。这笔赠款要求的设备将在现有的LOET实验室计算机网络内进行配置，以便从一个LOET实验室移植到下一个实验室。这种硬件/软件将在许多现有的LOET实验室课程中使用，仅用于光子学本科教育。使用上述设备从学生实验室实验中获得的结果将在国家和地区ASEE和SPIE会议以及ASEE工程技术杂志上传播。

Randy S. Linebarger DUE 9551776 Oregon Inst of Technology FY1995 $ 27,435 Klamath Falls, OR 976018801 ILI - Instrumentation Project: Engineering Title: Computer-Aided Data Acquisition and Control for Photonics Education Within the last decade there has been a significant increase in the role of computers in the photonics laboratory. The use of computers to perform data acquisition and control of laboratory optical instrumentation, optical image processing, modeling, simulations, numerical analysis and presentation capability, is now standard procedure within the photonics industry. The Laser Optical Engineering Technology (LOET) program has been utilizing computers to accomplish a very small subset of the above mentioned tasks in a number of LOET laboratory classes and with senior projects with only three (3) Macintosh computers for laboratory use by the entire cadre of LOET students. Important experiments that are absolutely essential to a well-rounded optics education simply cannot be performed due to the lack of sufficient computers, data acquisition hardware, and software. Currently, no capability exists to do any optical image processing. The objective of this grant request is to acquire additional computers, CCD cameras, and data acquisition hardware and software that will allow the LOET program to expand its capability to run meaningful lab experiments which routinely use such equipment. In addition, this grant would also allow the LOET students to be exposed to experiments and techniques in optical image processing, an important topic in modem optical engineering. The equipment requested by this grant would be configured within the existing LOET laboratory computer network in such a manner as to be portable from one LOET laboratory to the next. This hardware/software would be utilized in many of the existing LOET laboratory courses, solely for the purposes of undergraduate education in photonics. The results obtained from student laboratory experiments using the above mentioned equipment will be disseminated at both national and regional ASEE and SPIE conferences, as well as in the ASEE Journal of Engineering Technology.