Laser experiments for the secondary school classroom

Gareth T. Williams

doi:10.1117/12.224013

13 October 1995 Laser experiments for the secondary school classroom

Gareth T. Williams

Author Affiliations +

Proceedings Volume 2525, 1995 International Conference on Education in Optics; (1995) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.224013
Event: SPIE's 1995 International Symposium on Optical Science, Engineering, and Instrumentation, 1995, San Diego, CA, United States

Abstract

The Laser Applications in Science Education (LASE) project at San Jose State University explores the use of HeNe and visible diode lasers as key teaching tools for an introductory, inquiry-based, precollege laboratory course in electro-optics. Since 1990, National Science Foundation grants and cost-sharing funds from industrial supporters have allowed over one hundred elementary, middle, and high school teachers to attend workshops designed to show the teachers how to present the course material later to their students as prescribed exercises. This experience then leads the students into open-ended 'menus' of further things to try, and perhaps publish their results in the project journal LASE LOG or compete in science fairs. This paper describes course content (set experiments and menus) ranging from laser surveying, refractive index measurements, fiber optics, lenses, scanning and chopping systems, irradiance measurements, polarization, diffraction, visible diode lase construction, and holography. The place of such a course, both potential and realized, in secondary education is also discussed.

Citation Download Citation

Gareth T. Williams "Laser experiments for the secondary school classroom", Proc. SPIE 2525, 1995 International Conference on Education in Optics, (13 October 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.224013

Access the abstract

PROCEEDINGS
17 PAGES

DOWNLOAD PAPER SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

GET CITATION

CITATIONS

Cited by 2 scholarly publications.

Explore citations on Lens.org

RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS

Get copyright permission Get copyright permission on Copyright Marketplace

KEYWORDS

Lasers

Mirrors

Semiconductor lasers

Sensors

Glasses

Oscilloscopes

Holograms

Show All Keywords

RELATED CONTENT

Holographic prism on photo-thermo-refractive glass for metrological applications
Proceedings of SPIE (April 23 2019)

Equal optical path beam splitters by use of amplitude splitting...
Proceedings of SPIE (January 13 2004)

Design and development of a cryogenic high-accuracy refractometer
Proceedings of SPIE (July 23 2008)

Precise refractive index measurements of infrared materials
Proceedings of SPIE (October 01 1990)

Holographic vibratory analysis of steam turbine blades
Proceedings of SPIE (August 23 1996)

Intensive Bragg harmonics in reflection holograms in dichromated gelatin ...
Proceedings of SPIE (April 10 1997)

High brightness narrow line laser diode source with volume Bragg...
Proceedings of SPIE (March 17 2005)

Subscribe to Digital Library

Receive Erratum Email Alert

Show All Keywords

Keywords/Phrases

Search In:

Publication Years