Acquisition of Equipment for Acoustical, Optical, and Computational Scattering Studies

该奖项提供资金，用于建立研究基础设施，使文理学院的教师和学生能够进行多方面的项目，包括三类散射实验与计算模拟交织在一起。其中包括开发一种低相干外差技术，以成像嵌入在高散射介质中的结构，一种新的时间分辨光子和声子相关光谱技术，以及作为前两个实验的一部分使用的脉冲传输飞行时间测量。这些努力的成果可能在发展医学诊断和地质遥感方面具有实际用途。这项行动部分由NSF主要研究仪器计划和MPS多学科活动办公室支持。＊＊＊

*** 9724351 Saulnier This award provides funding to establish a research infrastructure that will enable faculty and students at a liberal arts college to undertake a multifaceted project consisting of three categories of scattering experiments interwoven with computational simulation. These include development of a low-coherence heterodyning technique to image structures imbedded in a highly scattering medium, a new time-resolved photon and phonon correlation spectroscopic technique, and pulse transmission time-of- flight measurements to be employed as part of the first two experiments. Results of the efforts are potentially of practical use in the development of a medical diagnostic and in geological remote sensing. This action is partly supported by the NSF Major Research Instrumentation Program and partly by the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities. ***