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 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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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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