OPENING SESSION
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| 2 |
Education and research in medical optronics in France
Jacques Demongeot, M. Fleute, T. Herve, Stephane Lavallee |
| 12 |
Riddle of light: a seminar course for scientists and humanists
Boris P. Stoicheff |
| 22 |
How to teach optics for the second time
Adolf W. Lohmann |
| 25 |
Building collaborative teams for multidisciplinary educational projects in optoelectronics
Nan Marie Jokerst, Martin A. Brooke, Joy Laskar, D. Scott Wills, April S. Brown, Mary Ann Ingram |
| 36 |
Fifty-five years of optics as a teaching and research domain at Laval University
Roger A. Lessard |
| 47 |
Should optics students know statistics?
Anna Consortini |
EDUCATION IN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS WITH BROADER SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL ROLE
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| 58 |
AAS education programs for photonics technicians
Leno S. Pedrotti, Chandrasekhar Roychoudhuri, Arthur H. Guenther |
| 65 |
Training education in enterprise: look for the future
Paul Laurin |
| 76 |
Workforce development for harnessing light
Robert P. Breault |
| 80 |
Public education and the electro-optical industry: a strategic partnership in creating photonics classes for high school students
Neal Miller, Pearl V. John |
| 84 |
Practical hands-on program in laser/optics technology
Shen-Yuan Chou, WaiMin Liu |
| 92 |
Optics education for K-12
James W. Bilbro, Janice M. Gaines Walker |
| 98 |
Preparing displaced adults for the optics/photonics workforce
Darrell M. Hull |
| 107 |
Solving the LEOT labor shortage
Neal Miller |
AN EXPANDING PRACTICE IN OPTICS AND PHOTONICS
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| 112 |
Artificial perception and consciousness
H. John Caulfield, John L. Johnson |
| 118 |
Teaching and research in integrated microelectronics
Karlheinz Meier |
| 125 |
Registration of medical images for surgical action: use of optical sensors and matching algorithm
M. Richard, M. Fleute, L. Desbat, Stephane Lavallee, Jacques Demongeot |
| 140 |
Current progress in multiple-image blind demixing algorithms
Harold H. Szu |
| 147 |
Image formation and optical transfer function in a course of Fourier optics
Maria J. Yzuel |
| 157 |
Why optics students should take digital signal processing courses and why digital signal processing students should take optics courses
W. Thomas Cathey, Jr. |
| 166 |
Three-dimensional transfer functions
Colin J. Sheppard |
GRADUATE PROGRAMS
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| 174 |
Multiple-option master's degree in optical science and engineering
Sudhakar Prasad, John K. McIver |
| 183 |
Undergraduate laser and optical physics laboratory course at the U.S. Air Force Academy
Randall J. Knize, W. Roc White, Boris V. Zhdanov |
| 189 |
Master's level education in biomedical optics: four-year experience at the University of Latvia
Janis Spigulis |
| 193 |
Concept of modes in optics and photonics
Rene Daendliker |
NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION
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| 200 |
Joint electrical engineering/physics course sequence for optics fundamentals and design
Robert Magnusson, Theresa A. Maldonado, Truman D. Black |
| 207 |
Diffractive optics: learning by computer experiments
Hartmut Bartelt |
| 214 |
WEBTop: interactive 3D optics simulations on the Web
John T. Foley, Kiril Vidimce, David C. Banks, Taha Mzoughi |
| 223 |
Making holograms in middle and high schools
Tung H. Jeong |
| 229 |
Undergraduate education and training in optics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata
Mario Garavaglia |
| 240 |
Simulink toolbox for simulation and analysis of optical fiber links
Claudio F. de Melo, Jr., Cesar A. Lima, Licinius D. de Alcantara, Ronaldo O. dos Santos, Joao C. Costa |
| 252 |
Technology-enhanced fiber optic education
Joseph C. Palais |
| 259 |
Student laboratory experiments on erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and lasers
W. Johnstone, Brian Culshaw, Douglas Walsh, David G. Moodie, Iain S. Mauchline |
| 268 |
Comparison of matrix method and ray tracing in the study of complex optical systems
Eric Anterrieu, Jose-Philippe Perez |
NEW APPROACHES TO TRADITIONAL EDUCATION
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| 282 |
Forty simple experiments with an He-Ne laser for high school students
Gabriel Ramos Ortiz, Jose-Luis Maldonado, Mayo Villagran-Muniz, Z. Ramirez-Maldonado |
| 293 |
Equation of conservation of irradiance
Carlos I. Robledo-Sanchez, A. Jaramillo, D. M. Gale, Gilberto Camacho |
| 295 |
Optical interferometry techniques in electrochemistry education
Khaled J. Habib |
| 297 |
Optical correlator as a tool for physicists and engineers training in signal processing
Andres Marquez, J. Barbe, Maria J. Yzuel, Juan Campos |
POSTER SESSION
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| 308 |
Vibration measurement using laser interferometry
Guillermo Silva-Pineda, Luis F. Argote |
| 319 |
Interactive tool in gallium arsenide semiconductor modeling: GaAsMod
Valentin Loyo-Maldonado, Rene d. Romero-Troncoso, David Antonio-Torres |
| 328 |
Using matrices to understand geometrical optics
Jose B. Almeida |
| 336 |
Simulation and experimentation supplementing the teaching of basic concepts in optics
Lia M. Zerbino, N. N. Baade, M. E. Lavagna |
| 342 |
Undergraduate optical experiments using simple liquid crystal displays
Silvia A. Ledesma, Homero Lozza, Matias Pomata |
| 352 |
Specialized project in biophotonics
Agueda L. Garcia Martin, Pedro O. Sastriques-Silva, Julia N. Martinez-Fundora, Angel G. Augier Calderin, Xonia Lopez-Cepero |
| 359 |
Some experiences from an optics master of science degree
Angel G. Augier Calderin, Adriana Mavilio, Agueda Garcia |
| 365 |
Optics teaching: new contents and methods
Alfredo M. Yeras, Rolando Gonzalez Pena |
| 371 |
Ultrashort laser pulses: a comparison between a mathematical model and experimental data
Roberto Ortega-Martinez, Carlos J. Roman-Moreno, Antonio A. Rodriguez-Rosales, Cesar A. Juarez-Melchor |
| 379 |
Dispersive power of gratings and prisms
Carlos I. Robledo-Sanchez, Alberto Jaramillo-Nunez, D. M. Gale, Gilberto Camacho |
| 381 |
Fractional Fourier transform in information optics
David Mendlovic, Zeev Zalevsky |
| 386 |
Self-imaging as an educational strategy
Lia M. Zerbino, M. E. Lavagna, N. N. Baade |
| 390 |
Integral treatment of teaching waves
Lia M. Zerbino, N. N. Baade, M. E. Lavagna, A. B. Mocoroa |
| 395 |
New developments of the project Learning by Research
Manuel F. Costa |
| 403 |
Automated evaluation of patterned fabrics for defect detection
Manuel F. Costa, Francisco Rodrigues, Joao Guedes, Jorge Lopes |
| 408 |
Analysis of lens aberrations using a retinoscope as a Foucault test
Walter D. Furlan, Laura Munoz-Escriva, Amparo Pons Marti, Manuel Martinez-Corral |
| 412 |
Lens correction algorithm based on the see-saw diagram to correct Seidel aberrations employing aspheric surfaces
Martha Rosete-Aguilar |
