The paper is to be:
    Written electronically (on a word-processor) or typed.  No handwriting.
    Double-spaced.
    5 pages in length.
    Cite your sources within your text, and include a Reference Page at the end of the paper (page 6).
    Print out your papers, and turn them in during class.

 DUE DATE !!

DUE DATE:    (Thursday class, sec. 8) Start of Class --Nov. 4, 2004
                       (Friday class, sec. 9) Start of Class --Nov. 5 , 2004

LATE PENALTY:  Papers turned in after this, but before the following week's class, Nov. 11/12, 2004 will be penalized 30%.  Papers turned in after that will be penalized 50%.

"The Invention of the Laser"
"How Optical Fibers Work"
"How the Microscope Changed Medicine"
"Galileo and the Telescope"
"Early Uses of Glass"
"Glass-making-- Old vs. New Technologies"
"The Helium-Neon (He-Ne) Laser--How it Works"
"Laser Materials Processing"
"Uses of Optics in Medicine"
"The Making of the 200" Mirror for the Telescope on Mt. Palomar"
"Patent Issues with the Invention of the Laser"
"Wiring of America with Optical Fibers--Economic Issues"
"Optical Technology of the Internet"
"How a Gas Laser Works"
"Optics in our Atmosphere--Sunsets, Sundogs, and Blue Skies"
"How a Telescope Works"
"A Survey of the World's Largest Telescopes"
"The Optics of a Rainbow"
"What went Wrong with the Hubble Space Telescope"
"The Colors in Stained Glass"
"The National Ignition Facility--The World's Largest Laser!"
"How a Camera Works"

Email your topics to me by 5pm, Oct. 14/15, 2004
nofziger@optics.arizona.edu