Applied Optics Laboratories in an Undergraduate Optical Sciences and Engineering Program

应用光学是工程师和科学家的一项使能技术，作为教学，研究和工业的工具变得越来越普遍。因此，应用光学应该是本科工程和科学教育的一个组成部分。为此，新泽西理工学院（NJIT）目前提供光学科学与工程（OPSE）本科课程。该计划是由一个跨学科的研究教师团队创建的，并获得了NSF的联合研究课程开发（CRCD）资助。OPSE教学实验室也通过暑期外展计划向大学预科学生和高中科学教师开放。 由初级和高级课程组成，OPSE课程向跨学科的学生观众教授基础和应用光学。该课程结合联合收割机讲座和实验，其中学生面临的挑战，学习和应用光学在自己的领域以及他人。目前，大多数实验是用低功率氦氖激光器和光电二极管探测器进行的。然而，许多重要的光学现象（例如光纤中的拉曼散射）和应用技术（例如激光手术）需要更大的光功率和具有波长鉴别的检测。 该项目将使用两个更高功率的激光器-具体地说，二极管泵浦Nd：YLF单元-和两个带有电荷耦合器件（CCD）探测器的单色仪。这一设备为利用研究中经常使用的光学现象的几项新实验（如谐波产生、光致发光活性、介电击穿）提供了便利，从而进一步履行了化学品研究中心将研究与课程编制相结合的使命。此外，它允许本科生甚至高中生和他们的老师在令人兴奋的实验中使用最先进的激光器，这些实验通常只有研究生和他们的研究顾问才能体验到

Applied optics is an enabling technology for engineers and scientists, becoming more widespread as a tool for teaching, research, and industry. Therefore, applied optics should be an integral component of undergraduate engineering and science education. To this end, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) currently offers its Optical Science and Engineering (OPSE) undergraduate curriculum. This program has been created by an interdisciplinary team of research faculty with a Combined Research-Curriculum Development (CRCD) grant from NSF. The OPSE teaching laboratory is also opened to pre-college students and high school science teachers through summer outreach programs. Composed of junior and senior level courses, the OPSE curriculum teaches fundamental and applied optics to an interdisciplinary student audience. The courses combine lecture and experiments in which students are challenged to learn and apply optics within their own fields as well as others. Currently, the majority of experiments are performed with low power Helium-Neon lasers and photodiode detectors. Many important optical phenomena (e.g. Raman scattering in fibers) and applied techniques (e.g. laser surgery), however, require greater optical powers and detection with wavelength discrimination. This project will use two higher power lasers -- specifically, diode-pumped Nd:YLF units -- and two monochromators with charged coupled device (CCD) detectors. This equipment facilitates several new experiments (e.g. harmonic generation, photorefractivity, dielectric breakdown) which employ optical phenomena that are often utilized in research, thus further fulfilling the CRCD mission of combining research with curriculum development. In addition, it allows undergraduates and even high school students and their teachers to use state-of-the-art lasers in exciting experiments which are usually only experienced by graduate students and their research advisors