Description: Southeast Regional Center for Laser and Fiber Optics Education offers professional development workshop "Lasers and Fiber Optics"  It is designed for middle school and high school educators teaching math, science, technology and engineering.  

 The purpose of this workshop is to introduce cutting edge technologies of lasers and fiber optics to high and middle school educators, and help them integrate math and science applications into existing lesson plans.  

 This workshop covers basic and advanced topics of light, lasers, and fiber optics and includes hands-on activities throughout the workshop.   Participants investigate the nature of light, its dual nature, colors, color addition and subtraction, electro-magnetic spectrum, spectroscopy, laws of reflection and refraction, imaging, critical angle and light propagation in optical fiber, interference, diffraction, polarization, and fundamentals of laser operation