Integration of Photonics and Electronics in the Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

这个项目是整合电子学和光子学到一个单一的高年级物理实验室课程。 新课程的结构是为了利用光子学和电子学之间强大的教学联系，使学生能够获得仪器的动手能力和对理论原理的透彻理解。 一个动手电子课程一直是许多高质量的本科物理课程的重要主食。 然而，由于基于激光的光子学技术的巨大影响，物理本科生也必须获得光子学和光纤仪器的原理的重要经验。 光子技术的研究和发展已经对美国经济产生了重大影响。 当他们开始他们的研究生或工业生涯，物理学学生显然受益于光子学的优势，在电子学的许多应用需要高带宽，低损耗，或提高灵敏度的深入了解。 学生必须获得尽可能多的实践经验，并且课程包括使用高质量单模光纤的当前应用。 在光学讲座课程，是必须与拟议的实验室课程。 新的实验室可以采取两个学分的物理专业，谁是进行电子和光子学实验，或一个学分的工程科学专业，谁是conaentrating对光子学的研究。 实验室课程结构作为一个模型，广泛纳入到本科物理课程的光子学。

This project is integrating electronics and photonics into a single upper-division physics laboratory course. The new course has been structured to take advantage of the strong pedagogical links between photonics and electronics, and to enable students to obtain both hands-on competence with the instrumentation and a thorough understanding of the theoretical principles. A hands-on electronics course has long been an important staple within many quality undergraduate physics programs. However, due to the enormous recent impact of laser-based photonics technologies, physics undergraduates must also obtain significant experience with the principles of photonics and fiber-optics instrumentation. Research and development in photonics technology has already had major effects on the U.S. economy. As they begin their graduate or industrial careers, physics students clearly benefit from an in-depth understanding of the advantages of photonics over electronics for many applications requiring high bandwidth, low loss, or improved sensitivity. It is imperative that students gain as much hands-on experience as possible, and that the course include current applications employing high-quality single-mode fiber. A lecture course in optics, is being required with the proposed laboratory course. The new laboratory can be taken either for two credits by physics majors, who are carrying out both electronics and photonics experiments, or for one credit by engineering science majors, who are conaentrating on the photonics investigations. The laboratory course structure serves as a model for widespread incorporation of photonics into the undergraduate physics curriculum.