In its thirteen years of operation OP-TEC, the National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education National Center for Optics and Photonics Education, has developed and updated over 2,500 pages of educational materials: * 16 Student texts and Faculty Teaching Aids for…
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OP-TEC Newsletter – April 2019
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OP-TEC Newsletter – February 2019
New breakthroughs and innovations in lasers and optics continue to stimulate the rapid expansion of photonics applications. The first graphic in this issue represents the advantages of welding metals with blue lasers. The first article explains how optical sensors are…
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OP-TEC Newsletter – January 2019
The lead article in this issue describes the enormous growth in the use of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers and VCSEL diode arrays. A brief introduction to VCSELs is included in module 6 of OP-TEC’s Course 2, Laser Systems and Applications. More…
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OP-TEC Newsletter – September 2018
The first two articles in this month’s newsletter (Using LADAR to See Through Fire and Lensless See-Through Cameras) are examples of the rapidly emerging applications of photonics. As this technology continues to expand, the demand for competent photonics technicians is…
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OP-TEC Newsletter – July 2018
July 2018 Optics and Photonics Education News: Optics & Photonics Enable “Rise of the Robots”A New Cloak of InvisibilityConverging Networks in Enterprise BuildingsMPEC Hosts Nuts, Bolts & Thingamajigs Summer Manufacturing CampIntegrated Photonics Figures and Images for InstructorsNew WomenTech Educators Video BlogHI-TEC Conference…
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OP-TEC to release 3rd Edition of Fundamentals of Light and Lasers. See our November newsletter.
Optics and Photonics Education News - November 2018
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ATE Central - DeafTEC Shares Top Ten Things Student Veterans Would like Faculty to Know
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DeafTEC Shares Top Ten Things Student Veterans Would like Faculty to Know Subscribe Posted by Madeline Patton at 11:00am. As part of its effort to bring more people who are deaf and hard of hearing in...Instructors, check out the Fundamentals of Light and Lasers teaching resources chart in our October newsletter!
Optics and Photonics Education News - October 2018
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Optics and Photonics Education News - September 2018
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