Modern Optics Equipment for Undergraduate Laboratories
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Appalachian State University will upgrade optics laboratories for               undergraduate instruction.  A modern optics laboratory will be                  instrumented for a senior-level course, Optics and Optoelectronics.  The        laboratory component of this course will include traditional experiments        in geometrical and physical optics but will emphasize contemporary              topics in optical science such as lasers, fiber optic communication, and        holographic techniques.  An important part of the laboratory work will          be the use, in selected experiments, of microcomputers for data                 acquisition and instrument control as well as for data analysis.  The           computer hardware and some of the necessary optics equipment has already        been acquired.  All of the experiments have been designed and developed         and, to the extent possible, tested with the limited equipment on hand.                                                                                         A number of classical optics experiments currently performed in existing        upper-level physics laboratory courses will also be upgraded by                 supplementing or replacing some older one-of-a-kind apparatus with              present generation equipment.  Introductory courses for science and pre-        engineering majors and others will also be improved by the project.
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