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

• 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

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.

该项目将电子和光子学集成到单个上限物理实验室课程中。 新课程的结构是利用光子学和电子学之间的牢固的教学联系，使学生能够获得仪器的动手能力，并对理论原理有透彻的理解。 长期以来，动手的电子课程一直是许多质量本科物理学计划中的重要主食。 但是，由于基于激光的光子学技术的巨大影响，物理本科生还必须获得光子学和光纤仪器原理的丰富经验。 光子技术的研发已经对美国经济产生了重大影响。 当他们开始毕业或工业职业时，物理专业的学生显然从对光子学比电子产品的优势的深入了解中受益于许多需要高带宽，低损失或提高灵敏度的应用。 学生必须获得尽可能多的动手经验，并且该课程包括采用高质量单模光纤的当前应用程序。 拟议的实验室课程需要一项有关光学的讲座课程。 物理学专业的新实验室可以将新实验室用于两个学分，他们正在进行电子和光子学实验，或者通过工程科学专业的一项学分，他们正在对光子学调查进行介绍。 实验室课程结构是将光子学广泛融合到本科物理学课程中的模型。