These range from straightforward experiments on lenses and mirrors to sophisticated experiments using optical time domain reflectometers and examination of thermal lensing in neodymium YAG laser crystals, and characterization of a dye laser. The Corning Corporation has helped the curriculum several times with donations of substantial amounts of optical fiber, single mode and multimode. The department is a nationally-recognized pioneer in distance learning laboratory instruction. Apparatus is controlled and data are collected and interpreted via computers over phone links. Among experiments already in operation are Michaelson interferometry, Fabry Perot interferometry, an experiment on polarization and one on electro-optic modulation.
Work is in progress on optical time domain reflectometry.
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