EDUCATION IN OPTICS IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES |
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Optical education in the USSR Gregory B. Altshuler, Elena G. Doulneva |
| 9 |
Development of optics education in the United States Brian J. Thompson |
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Optics education for and in industry in Japan Hitoshi Ohzu |
| 32 |
Progress in education in optical engineering in China Jinfa Tang, Zukang Lu |
| 41 |
Optics education and training in France Pierre H. Chavel, Claude Froehly |
| 48 |
Comments on education in optics in different countries Anthony E. Siegman |
FUNDAMENTAL EDUCATION IN MODERN OPTICS |
| 52 |
Looking forward: teaching optics in the 21st century Adolf W. Lohmann |
| 73 |
Education in optical physics at Moscow State University Nikolai I. Koroteev |
| 78 |
Role of Fourier theory in optics education Jack D. Gaskill |
| 85 |
Issue of teaching modern optics Nikolai V. Karlov |
| 87 |
Optics in nature: interesting students in optics Duncan T. Moore |
| 94 |
Wave optics in the course of general physics at Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology Stanislav M. Kozel, Gennady R. Lockshin |
EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR RESEARCHERS IN OPTICS |
| 98 |
How much mathematics should optics students know? Anna Consortini |
| 109 |
Basic education in optics for physicists Maria J. Yzuel |
| 120 |
New approach to teaching matrix optics Henri H. Arsenault |
| 128 |
Optics programs at University of Massachusetts/Lowell: the role of a state university in a high-tech state Zoltan Fried, Sergey V. Broude |
| 137 |
Flexible new optics facilities with electronics and computer systems integration in a renovated building at a smaller state university Ralph E. Oberly, James O. Brumfield |
| 146 |
Optics education at Tianjin University Daoyin Yu, Feng-Lin Zhang, Yimo Zhang |
| 150 |
Lasers and optics program at San Jose State University Joseph F. Becker, Gareth T. Williams, H. Sarma Lakkaraju, Ramendra D. Bahuguna, Osuk Y. Kwon |
| 155 |
Education and training of quantum electronics specialists in Krasnoyarsk State University Alexander S. Provorov, A. G. Sizykh |
EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF ENGINEERS IN OPTICS |
| 162 |
Preparing optics graduates for their first job in industry Brij M. Khorana |
| 165 |
Education for specialists in optical design Yuri G. Yakushenkov |
| 170 |
Teaching of lens design Robert R. Shannon |
| 176 |
Teaching of optics to mechanical engineering students Fromund Hock |
| 190 |
Teaching holography: holography as a teaching tool Nils H. Abramson |
| 202 |
Optoelectronics curricula W. Thomas Cathey, Jr. |
| 207 |
Reflections on the teaching of applied optics Robin W. Smith |
| 215 |
Teaching optics in electrical engineering curriculums Alexander D. Poularikas, Samuel Seely |
| 222 |
Higher education in laser applications Vadim P. Veiko, Mikhail N. Libenson |
| 232 |
Education in optical design by artificial intelligence system Rang-Seng Chang, Der-Chin Chen |
| 240 |
Modeling of optical devices: teaching modern optics to electrical engineers Otto Schwelb |
| 252 |
Electro-optics communication course for electronics engineering students Aaron Peled |
| 266 |
Heat design of optoelectronic devices in training optics specialists G. N. Dulnev, Elena G. Doulneva |
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Development of the physical world view of students in general system of education of optical engineers A. N. Bekhterev, V. M. Zolotarev |
OPTICAL EDUCATION AT DIFFERENT LEVELS: HIGH SCHOOL TO POSTGRADUATE |
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Introducing optics education at the high school level: the Kentucky approach Stephen H. Cobb, John T. Tarvin, Bobby G. Malone |
| 288 |
Organization of optical education in conditions of a typical university Boris P. Nevzorov, Anatoly S. Poplavnoi, Yuri A. Fadeev |
| 291 |
Optics education at Nankai University of China Guoguang Mu, Wenju Chen, YanXin Zhang, Yuan-Ling Zhan |
| 295 |
Undergraduate and graduate study in optics at Czechoslovak Technical Univ. Vaclav Sochor |
| 303 |
Queen's University of Belfast Master of Science course in optoelectronics and optical information processing Brian Bates, Christopher H. Mee |
| 312 |
Education in optics at the University of Valencia Carlos Ferreira |
| 317 |
Transition to reality: preparing the student at Georgia Tech through an undergraduate sequence of optics laboratories Donald C. O'Shea |
| 325 |
Lasers and applied optics course for industrial personnel Thomas J. Glynn |
| 329 |
Training in principles of synthesis and composiiton of optical systems at the level of qualification promotion Irina L. Anitropova-Livshits |
COMPUTERS IN OPTICAL EDUCATION |
| 332 |
New approach in laser physics education Gregory B. Altshuler, Nickolai R. Belashenkov, Andrey V. Okishev |
| 338 |
Computer display tools for lasers and optics Anthony E. Siegman |
| 348 |
Computers in optics education: principles and basic models Mikhail A. Vorontsov |
| 358 |
Demonstrating principles of physical optics through interactive computer simulations John T. Tarvin, Stephen H. Cobb, Donald L. Jackson |
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Curriculum structure of training of optical system designers Victor A. Zverev |
NEW TRENDS AND METHODS IN OPTICAL EDUCATION |
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OSA Optics Discovery Kit: its development and use Donald C. O'Shea |
| 378 |
Optics in the atmosphere: what happened in the skies of St. Petersburg on 18 June 1790 Robert G. Greenler |
| 389 |
Modernizing the teaching of advanced geometric optics Allen Nussbaum |
| 401 |
Novel educational approach to some aspects of optical information processing Prasanta K. Ghosh, Partha P. Banerjee, P. B. Berra |
| 416 |
Optics in general physics for high engineering education Nikolai M. Kozhevnikov, V. F. Masterov, Yu. I. Ukhanov |
| 422 |
Implementation of photonics program at the undergraduate level Salahuddin Qazi |
| 432 |
Challenges of introducing optoelectronics into an entrenched electrical engineering curriculum Harbans S. Dhadwal |
| 439 |
Use of the laser in the high school classroom: the LASE project Malcolm G. Cornwall, Gareth T. Williams |
| 451 |
Easy ways for performing real-time holographic interferometry education Ming-Wen Chang |
| 458 |
Spectroscopy of laser active media Thomas J. Glynn |
| 463 |
Optics in a research environment: spectroscopy as a teaching tool Stephen H. Cobb, John T. Tarvin, Carol J. Baltimore |
| 471 |
Illustrating physical principles through comparative feature extraction techniques in optical and digital image processing Ralph E. Oberly, James O. Brumfield |
| 480 |
Theory of optical imaging in the wave approach Romulad Jozwicki |
| 490 |
Educational fiber optic transmission equipment with dedicated BER features Pedro R. Vizcaya-Guarin, Juan C. Alvarez, Juan C. Luna, Angela M. Guzman, Hypolito J. Kalinowski |
| 496 |
Recovery from low light level images Manuel P. Cagigal, Pedro M. Prieto |
| 504 |
Simple experimental technique for measuring lifetimes of low-intensity monoexponential fluorescence signals Fernando G. Moreno, R. J. Lopez, P. J. Valle Herrero, Jose M. Saiz, Francisco Gonzalez |
| 515 |
Scheme for fast calculation of guided modes in planar optical waveguides E. Jan de Jong |
| 523 |
Universal laboratory complete for optical practice S. F. Mironov, A. A. Stolov, Alexander I. Fishman |
| 527 |
Laboratory programs on high-resolution spectroscopy Lidia A. Luizova |
| 535 |
Laboratory program on Fourier spectroscopy Marina E. Bagenova, Lidia A. Luizova |
| 541 |
Practical works on holographic interferometry and speckle-photography Lyudmila I. Golubentseva, Vladimir P. Ryabukho |
POSTER SESSION |
| 550 |
In-vivo fiber optic cardiac blood-flow meter Kiron C. Bordoloi, Kim Clark |
| 562 |
Optical interferometry experiment in the time-frequency domain Jeffrey S. Dunham, James E. Appleby, Stephen C. Bennett, Crispin O. Butler |
| 566 |
Microscope as a teaching tool in Fourier transform optics Maksymilian Pluta |
| 577 |
Training of optical engineers and physicists in Chernovtsy University Oleg V. Angelsky, G. K. Kurek, Bohdan M. Nitsovich |
STUDENT CONTRIBUTIONS |
| 583 |
Dynamics of transverse field structure in lasers and nonlinear media Irina V. Veshneva |
| 584 |
New methods of refractive-index determination Ludmila A. Gerasimova |
| 585 |
Numerical investigation of influence of photoelastic effect induced by thermal stresses on optical characteristics of anisotropic elements of solid state lasers Eugene V. Stepanov |
| 586 |
Step-function optical distributions in cross-sectional shifts measuring Yuri G. Kirchin |
| 587 |
Formation and control of emission of a solid state laser Tatyana Y. Cherezova |
| 588 |
Self-diffusion of erythrocytes in Couette flow studied by elastic light scattering Tatiana Astakhova |