Professional development workshop €œLasers and Fiber Optics€ hosted by LASER-TEC and designed for secondary 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 modern 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. Using the "Light and Optics Exploration Kit" developed by LASER-TEC, 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.