Programs |
| I. | ACTIVE LEARNING IN PHYSICS A WAY FOR RATIONAL THINKING - A WAY FOR DEVELOPMENT Z. Ben Lakhdar, N.Derbel , Z. Dhaouadi , H.Ghalila , R.Miled , S.Lahmar, K.Berrada , R.Channa, A.Outzourhit |
| II. | POST-GRADUATE PROGRAM IN OPTICS & PHOTONICS EJ Fjarlie |
| III. | ELECTRO-OPTICS-INTEGRATED WITHIN THE LAND FORCES TECHNICAL STAFF PROGRAM; ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA: 1994-PRESENT EJ Fjarlie |
| IV. | PHOTONICS EDUCATION PROGRAM AT CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY Dennis Derickson, Sam Agbo, Sean Jobe, John Sharpe, Dan Wasche, and Xiaomin Jin |
| V. | APPLIED ELECTRO-OPTICS EDUCATIONAL AND TRAINING PROGRAM WITH MULTIPLE ENTRANCE AND EXIT PATHWAYS Patricia Scott, Feng Zhou, and Dorothy Zilic |
| VI. | REVISE OF THE UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM FOR SPECIALITY IN APPLIED PHYSICS TO INTENSIFY TRAINING IN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS Shiquan Tao, Li Wang, and Zhuqing Jiang |
Fundamentals |
| I. | CAN CLASSICAL OPTICAL SUPERPOSITION PRINCIPLE GET US OUT OF QUANTUM MYSTICISM OF NON-LOCALITY AND BRING BACK REALITY TO MODERN PHYSICS? Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri |
| II. | THE FIRST STEPS FOR LEARNING OPTICS: IBN SAHL'S, AL-HAYTHAM'S AND YOUNG'S WORKS ON REFRACTION AS TYPICAL EXAMPLES Mourad Zghal, Hamid-Eddine Bouali, Zohra Ben Lakhdar, Habib Hamam |
| III. | ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF LIGHT IN OPTICS INSTRUCTION Enrique J. Galvez and Nikolay Zhelev |
| IV. | UNDERSTANDING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GAIN SATURATION FOR HOMOGENEOUSLY BROADENED LASER MEDIUM FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE BANDWIDTH Geguo Du |
| V. | INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EXPLORING PHYSICS WITH REALITY Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri |
LARGER ISSUES |
| I. | UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INSTITUTE FOR OPTICAL SCIENCES COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM IN OPTICS Emanuel Istrate, Amr S. Helmy, John E. Sipe, M. Cynthia Goh, R. J. Dwayne Miller |
| II. | BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AT ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AS RELATED TO THE EDUCATION, TRAINING, AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT OF THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCIENTISTS AND PROFESSIONALS. Kamran S. Mobarhan, Ph.D. |
| III. | ADVANCING TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH PRE-COMMERCIAL PHOTONIC DEVICES Marko M. G. Slusarczuk |
K-12 |
| I. | PHOTONICS XPLORERS AND LEADERS: CHALLENGING DIVERSE STUDENTS IN A FLAT WORLD FOR EMERGING CAREERS Joyce Hilliard-Clark, Ph.D. and Pamela O. Gilchrist M.Ed |
| II. | REPORT ON AN OPTICS OUTREACH PROGRAM IN MONTRÉAL François Busque and Yasaman Soudagar |
| III. | A SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE 'FIRST' OPTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING EXPERIMENT Dale W. Olson |
| IV. | OPTICS EDUCATION IN THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY Constance E. Walker, Robert T. Sparks, and Stephen M. Pompea |
| V. | INNOVATIVE METHODS TO TEACH OPTICS IN THE GRADE 5 CLASSROOM Nancy Magnani |
| VI. | EL D´IA DE LA LUZ (THE DAY OF LIGHT)-TWO HOURS OPTICS DEMONSTRATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS Osamu Takayama, Armand Niederberger, Petru Ghenuche, Manoj Mathew,Giovanni Volpe |
| VII. | PROJECT LITE: LIGHT INQUIRY THROUGH EXPERIMENTS Kenneth Brecher |
| VIII. | HANDS-ON OPTICS SCIENCE CAMPS AND CLUBS Constance E. Walker, Robert T. Sparks, and Stephen M. Pompea |
| IX. | THE DEVELOPMENT OF A LOW-COST LASER COMMUNICATION SYSTEM FOR THE CLASSROOM Robert T. Sparks, Stephen M. Pompea1 and Constance E. Walker |
COLLEGES |
| I. | INTERNATIONAL PHOTONICS TRAINING: A CASE STUDY Dan Sporea, Nicholas Massa, Judith Donnelly, Fenna Hanes |
| II. | DEVELOPMENT OF AN INDUSTRY BASED LASER MANUFACTURING DEGREE PROGRAM Judy Donnelly, Nicholas Massa, Karen Wosczyna Birch |
| III. | THE SPECTRUM OF COURSES OFFERED BY THE CENTER FOR BIOPHOTONICS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CBST) Marco Molinaro and James F. Shackelford |
| IV. | INFUSING PHOTONICS TO INCREASE ENROLLMENT IN ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY Chrys A. Panayiotou, Fred P. Seeber |
| V. | EVOLUTION OF A PHOTONICS EDUCATION PROGRAM Alexander McGlashan*, Jay Yatulis |
| VI. | POST-SECONDARY PHOTONICS LAB: SIMPLIFIED PORTRAIT HOLOGRAPHY William R. Brohinsky |
INSTRUMENTS/EXPERIMENTS |
| I. | USING A MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER TO MEASURE THE PHASE RETARDATIONS OF WAVE PLATES Fang-Wen Sheu and Shu-Yen Liu |
| II. | A LABORATORY OF IMAGE PROCESSING AND HOLOGRAPHY FOR PHYSICS STUDENTS M. J. Yzuel , J. C. Escalera, A. Lizana, M. Espínola, J. Campos. |
| III. | USING A WAVELENGTH TUNABLE DIODE LASER TO MEASURE THE BEAT LENGTH OF A BIREFRINGENT FIBER Fang-Wen Sheu and Shu-Chun Yang |
| IV. | LASER DIODE AND PHOTODIODE MODULES AND ANALOGUE CIRCUITS TRAINING FOR THE OPTICAL FIBER TRANSMISSION PRACTICE SYSTEM Shigeaki Matsumoto, Yasuaki Tamura, Kouichi Nishizawa |
| V. | WEBLAB FOR MEASURING THE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT OF AN OPTICAL FIBER Sérgio Szpigel, Eunézio A. de Souza, Fábio Paschoal Jr., Erik A. Antonio, Joaquim P. Filho |
| VI. | TEMPORAL COHERENCE CHARACTERISTICS OF A SUPERLUMINESCENT DIODE SYSTEM WITH AN OPTICAL FEEDBACK MECHANISM Fang-Wen Sheu and Pei-Ling Luo |
| VII. | PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO OPTICAL WDM COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS IN STUDENT TEACHING LABORATORIES Iain Mauchline, Douglas Walsh, David Moodie, Steve Conner, Walter Johnstone, Brian Culshaw |
| VIII. | IMPLEMENTATION OF THREE FUNCTIONAL DEVICES USING ERBIUMDOPED FIBERS: AN ADVANCED PHOTONICS LAB Wen Zhu, Li Qian, Amr S. Helmy |
| IX. | EDUCATIONAL KIT FOR OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS Victor V. Dyomin, Igor G. Polovtsev |
| X. | QUANTUM OPTICS EXPERIMENTS WITH SINGLE PHOTONS FOR UNDERGRADUATE LABORATORIES Enrique J. Galvez and Mark Beck |
TEACHING METHODS |
| I. | PHOTON PBL: PROBLEM-BASED LEARNING IN PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION Nicholas Massa, Richard Audet, Judith Donnelly, Marijke Kehrhahn |
| II. | USING MISCONCEPTIONS RESEARCH IN THE DESIGN OF OPTICS INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS AND TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS Stephen M. Pompea, Erin F. Dokter, Constance E. Walker,Robert T. Sparks |
| III. | ACTIVE LEARNING OF INTRODUCTORY OPTICS: INTERACTIVE LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS AND OPTICS MAGIC TRICKS David R. Sokoloff |
| IV. | THE LASER TEACHING CENTER AT STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY John W. Noé |
| V. | A COMPLETE RAY-TRACE ANALYSIS OF THE 'MIRAGE' TOY Sriya Adhya and John W. Noé |
| VI. | SIMPLE CREATIVE PROJECTS FROM AN OPTICS TEACHING LABORATORY John W. Noé |
BIOPHOTONICS NANO TECHNOLOGY |
| I. | INTRODUCING AND ENGAGING DIVERSE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS TO BIOPHOTONICS THROUGH MULTIYEAR COURSES Marco Molinaro. Pamela Castori, Mike Wright, and Ana Corbacho |
| II. | INTEGRATING NANOPHOTONIC CONCEPTS AND TOPICS INTO OPTICS CURRICULA Gregory J. Sonek |
| III. | BIOPHOTONICS MASTER STUDIES: TEACHING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE AT UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA Janis Spigulis |
| IV. | TEACHING OPTICS IN A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY CURRICULUM: EXPERIENCE FROM OPTOMETRY PROGRAMS Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan |
| V. | TEACHING THIN OPTICAL COATING AND OPTICS EDUCATION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRY A SCENARIO IN BANGLADESH K. A. Khan |
MULTIDISCIPLINARY |
| I. | USING A RESEARCH LABORATORY FOR TRAINING STUDENTS Anna Consortini |
| II. | UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INSTITUTE FOR OPTICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH SKILLS PROGRAM Emanuel Istrate, Amr S. Helmy, M. Cynthia Goh ,R. J. Dwayne Miller |
WORKSHOPS |
| I. | SCIENCE AND FUN IN A "MAGIC SHOW OF LIGHT" FROM OPTICAL DEMONSTRATIONS ON AN OVERHEAD PROJECTOR FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS. Joe J. Lonesa, Nadezhda K. Maltsevab, Kurt N. Peterson |
COURSES |
| I. | AN ACTIVITIES-BASED COURSE IN OPTICS FOR NON-TECHNICAL MAJORS Jack Glassman and Rebecca Lindell |
| II. | INTEGRATION OF OPTICS INTO THE UNDERGRADUATE PHYSICS CURRICULUM AT MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY Natalia M. Dushkina |
| III. | DETECTORS, DEVICES AND ELECTRONICS FOR OPTICS V. Fajer |
| IV. | ELECTRO-OPTICS SHORT COURSE EJ Fjarlie |
| V. | A FULL-YEAR UNIVERSITY COURSE SEQUENCE IN DETECTOR ARRAY THEORY, CAMERA BUILDING, AND SYSTEM TESTING Zoran Ninkov |
SIMULATIONS |
| I. | SIMULATION SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR OPTICAL SYSTEM EDUCATION Jason Taylor |
| II. | APPLYING THE PRINCIPLES OF AUGMENTED LEARNING TO PHOTONICS LABORATORY WORK U.H.P. Fischer (member IEEE), Matthias Haupt , Chr istian Reinboth , J ensUwe Just |
| III. | MOTO: A MATLAB OBJECT-ORIENTED PROGRAMMING TOOLBOX FOR OPTICS Eric Anterrieu, Jos´e-Philippe P´erez |
| IV. | NONLINEAR OPTICS MATHCAD EXERCISE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Daniela M. Topasna, Gregory A. Topasna |
| V. | VIRTUAL HOLOGRAPHIC LABORATORY M. L. Calvo, T. Alieva, J. A. Rodrigo, O. Mart’nez-Matos, A. Moreno, T. Aliev |
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION |
| I. | THE NEMO EDUCATIONAL KIT H. Thienpont et al |
POSTERS |
| I. | A PHOTONICS MASTERS PROGRAM AT A REGIONAL METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY Jack G. Glassman et al |
| II. | PHOTONICS: PREPARING DIVERS STUDENTS IN A FLAT WORLD FOR EMERGING CAREERS Joyce Hilliard-Clark et al |
| III. | LOSSES INFLUENCE OF A FABRY PEROT RESONATOR ON THE EFFECT OF THE OPTICAL MULTISTABILITY IN A SATURABLE LASER ABSORBER WITH A HOMOGENOUS WIDENING Djabi Smail et al |
| IV. | FLEXIBLE ORGANIC TEMPERATURE SENSORS Daniela Topasna et al |
| V. | A SIMPLE AND EFFECTIVE 'FIRST' OPTICAL IMAGE PROCESSING EXPERIMENT Dale W. Olson |
| VI. | SUPERCONTINUUM GENERATION IN PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS Feng Zhou |
| VII. | VIRTUAL RESEARCHER ON CALL: "ENCOURAGING THE YOUTH OF TODAY TO BECOME THE RESEARCHERS TOMORROW" Kevin Cougler et al |
| VIII. | PUTTING THE "SPARK" INTO PHYSICAL SCIENCES AND ALGEBRA Bruce Pill et al |
| IX. | OPTICAL ENGINEERING: LEARNING BY DESIGN Andrew Kirk |
| X. | LOW-PRICE OPTICAL MICROSCOPE FOR SCHOOL SCIENCE EDUCATION Tsutomu Hoshimiya et al |
| XI. | NONLINEAR OPTICS MATH CAD EXERCISE FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS Gregory Topasna et al |
| XII. | BIOPHOTONICS MASTERS STUDIES: TEACHING AND TRAINING EXPERIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA Janis Spigulis |
| XIII. | REPORT ON AN OPTICS OUTREACH PROGRAM IN MONTREAL François Busque et al |
| XIV. | PHOTONICS TEACHING DEVELOPMENT AT CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY Daniel Wasche et al |
| XV. | OPTICS LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS WITH LASER-HEATED SAMPLES OF CRUDE OILS AND OIL-IN-WATER EMULSIONS German Da Costa |
| XVI. | APPLYING THE PRINCIPALS OF AUGMENTED LEARNING TO PHOTONICS LABORATORY WORK Christian Reinboth et al |
| XVII. | TEACHING THIN OPTICAL COATING AND OPTICS EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPING COUNTRY - A SCENARIO IN BANGLADESH Khairul Alam Khan |