This guide contains activities using lenses, prisms and mirrors to create telescopes, periscopes, microscopes and kaleidoscopes. Other activities include finding focal length and understanding reflection, refraction and diffraction. Activities are marked by grade level.
This set of 4 brochures provides resources to military veterans who would like to pursue a career in the lasers and fiber optics industry. Veterans who completed training for any of the military occupational specialties listed on the brochures are excellent candidates for employment in this field. Each brochure provides a quick overview of the photonics industry and includes steps…
Designed to accompany Fundamentals of Light and Lasers, this Laboratory Manual was written to provide high schools a less expensive option for offering the Fundamentals of Light and Lasers course. It provides a wide variety of experiments that give students a hands-on approach to learning basic photonics concepts. Through these experiments, students sharpen their skills in making precise measurements and…
This guide is for high school administrators, counselors, and/or teachers who are looking for ways to provide their students with opportunities for a bright future in photonics—a fascinating, intellectually challenging, and fast-growing technical area.
Curriculum guide designed to support implementation and successful teaching of Photonics Systems Technicians program and courses. Contains some information to help colleges plan new PST programs. Provides assistance to faculty who will be developing laboratories and teaching courses in the PST curriculum.
This course addresses the basics of specification, manufacturing, and assessment of precision optics. It presents an introduction to quality assurance (QA) practices required to identify, inspect, and measure optical components. Materials and tools found in industrial optics fabrication and inspection shop are used in lecture demonstrations and laboratory experiments. Students will gain hands-on experience with these industrial materials and QA…
A reference guide to fiber optics, fiber optics testing, fiber optics links and networks developed by JDSU – a company that designs and manufactures products for optical communications networks. The topics include: principals of light transmission in fiber, losses, fiber characterization, testing, use of OTDR, dispersions, attenuation profiles, and fiber optics links. It can be used as a supplement reading…
A reference guide to fiber optics, fiber optics testing, fiber optics links and networks developed by JDSU – a company that designs and manufactures products for optical communications networks. The topics include: principals of light transmission in fiber, losses, fiber characterization, testing, use of OTDR, dispersions, attenuation profiles, and fiber optics links. It can be used as a supplement reading…
A reference guide to fiber optics, fiber optics testing, fiber optics links and networks developed by JDSU – a company that designs and manufactures products for optical communications networks. The topics include: principals of light transmission in fiber, losses, fiber characterization, testing, use of OTDR, dispersions, attenuation profiles, and fiber optics links. It can be used as a supplement reading…
This booklet features 24 exemplary photonics technicians inducted into the Photonics Alumni Council for Technicians (PACT) in 2016. The PACT book answers questions about the lives and careers of these technicians who graduated from community and technical colleges throughout the country.
This monograph presents successful job placement strategies in seven steps for community college instructors and their technician students based on recommendations from seasoned photonics educators and employers. Appendices include skill standards, career information, sample resume and cover letter, and advice from alumni.
Infographic developed by SPIE featuring the main applications of quantum: quantum sensing & metrology, quantum computing, quantum communication, and quantum imaging. The poster describes different stages of technology readiness.
This document represents the consensus of a broad cross-section of U.S. employers regarding the technical and workplace skills required of entry-level photonics technicians. It details 7 critical work functions and 8 technical skills, which employers and educators can customize to meet local industry needs. It is designed to give educators and employer advisory committees a solid foundation for generating courses…
The National Skill Standards for Photonics Systems Technicians are intended to define the basic knowledge and skills of technicians who may work in any specific photonics application, such as fiber-optic communications, manufacturing/materials processing, defense/aerospace, medical equipment, university research labs, energy/environmental, integrated photonics, etc.
This monograph proposes a plan and describes a strategy for developing and maintaining strong, effective student recruitment to support program enrollment.
A brochure that categorizes all the different business sectors where a robotics and photonics technician could work. It lists the industries within each sector, the tasks of the technician, and the job title and average salary for each position. All of the information collected on this brochure is from the website O*NET Online which is sponsored by the Department of…
This flyer was created to assist students in the decision-making process of choosing a career by explaining the advantages of studying robotics and photonics. Highlighted on this flyer are the top reasons why students and graduates ultimately chose to pursue a degree in this field.
Wide Bandgap Semiconductors GaN, SiC module was created to introduce this emerging field in the engineering technology and related associate level curriculum.