Integration of Photonics and Electronics in the Undergraduate Physics Laboratory

本科生物理实验室中的光子学和电子学集成

基本信息

批准号：
9751463
负责人：
Daniel Spiegel
金额：
$ 1.5万
依托单位：
Trinity University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
1997
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1997-06-01 至 2000-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9751463&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Integration Photonics Electronics Undergraduate Physics

项目摘要

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.

该项目将电子学和光子学整合到一个单一的高级物理实验室课程中。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实践能力和对理论原理的透彻理解。电子实践课程长期以来一直是许多优质本科物理课程的重要组成部分。然而，由于最近基于激光的光子技术的巨大影响，物理本科生还必须获得有关光子学和光纤仪器原理的重要经验。光子技术的研究和开发已经对美国经济产生了重大影响。当物理专业的学生开始研究生或工业生涯时，他们显然会受益于对光子学相对于电子学在许多需要高带宽、低损耗或提高灵敏度的应用中的优势的深入了解。学生必须获得尽可能多的实践经验，并且课程包括采用高质量单模光纤的当前应用。拟议的实验室课程需要开设光学讲座课程。新实验室可以由进行电子学和光子学实验的物理专业学生修读两个学分，也可以由专注于光子学研究的工程科学专业学生修读一个学分。实验室课程结构成为将光子学广泛纳入本科物理课程的典范。