 Student
Teaching Laboratory: Geometrical and Instrumental Optics I
This lab
is designed to complement the major topics discussed in the Geometrical
and Instrumental Optics course. Students
are introduced to the basic principles of geometric optics, and perform
experiments involving refraction and reflection, Gaussian optics,
paraxial optics, and stops and pupils, and work with simple optical
instruments. For more information, contact
Dr.
Mike Nofziger.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Computers
This laboratory
is available to all Optical Sciences students and houses
computers and software for optical design, general computation, word
processing, and internet communications. For more information,
contact
Professor Richard
Shoemaker.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Instrument Shop
This
facility houses a lathe, mill, drill press, grinder, and other small
tools. Students use the shop facilities for small machining projects such as
making or modifying optical mounts and other equipment. The shop is available to all Optical Sciences
students who
have taken a shop safety course. For more information, send an
email to the shop manager, Mr. Charles Burkhart at charles.burkhart@optics.arizona.edu.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Microcomputers
Students use the computers and test equipment in this
laboratory in conjunction with the microcomputer interfacing course and
the mathematical optics laboratory course. For more information,
contact
Professor Richard
Shoemaker.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Senior Optics Lab I
Students are introduced to beam alignment, data acquisition and signal
processing, spectrometers, incoherent sources, thermal and photon
detectors, array detectors, polarization, optical properties of
materials, scanners and modulators, image acquisition and processing,
properties of the eye. For more information, contact
Professor Russell Chipman.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Senior Optics Lab II
Students are
introduced to Kerr and Pockels cells, liquid crystal light valves,
measurement of optical fiber characteristics, signal transmission,
Fourier transforming properties of lenses, spatial filtering,
transmission, reflection, image and rainbow holograms. For
more information, contact
Professor Hong Hua.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Fiber
Optics
The lab supports the Optical Sciences Fiber Optics classes at the
graduate and undergraduate levels. Experiments include fiber characteristics; fiber preparation;
single and multimode fibers; sources; coupling; communication systems;
multiplexing techniques; and fiber-optic sensors. For more
information, contact
Professor
Raymond Kostuk.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Optical
Fabrication
This is the home of the well-received Optical Shop Practices course. The emphasis is on the production of optical elements by the
application of abstract optical concepts. Students experiment with the basics of optical shop practices
including fabrication and testing of telescope mirrors, curve
generation, fine grinding, polishing, and figuring. Emphasis is placed on the production of optical elements by the
application of abstract optical concepts. For more
information, contact
Professor
Jose Sasian.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Optical
Testing
Students are introduced to experiments involving measurements of
paraxial properties of optical components, refractive index, surface
figure, and surface finish. For more information, contact
Professor
James Wyant.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Fundamentals of Applied Optics
Students are
introduced to optical systems; Gaussian optics; aberrations; radiometry;
sources; detectors; and optical engineering in support of the Opti 510L
class. For more information, contact
Professor
James Burge.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Fundamentals of Physical Optics
This laboratory supports the Opti 501
and Opti 505 classes. Students
participate in projects involving interference, diffraction,
polarization, coherence, interferometry and holography. For more
information, contact
Professor
Tom Milster.
Student
Teaching Laboratory: Lasers and Solid-State Devices
The
experiments in this laboratory deal with a number of the subjects
addressed in the Introduction to Optical Physics, the Introduction to
Lasers, and the Solid State Optics courses. The laboratory exercises
involve experiments with cavity modes, modelocking, diode lasers, gas
and solid-state lasers, nonlinear crystals, and atomic
spectroscopy. For more information, contact
Professor
Poul Jessen. |