Photonics Lab Manual for High Schools

This 78-page resource, developed by the National Center for Optics and Photonics Education (OP-TEC), is a lab manual intended for high school students taking an introductory phonotics course. This manual "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 in collecting, organizing, and analyzing data. Labs include the following: Finding the Speed of Red Light in Acrylic Medium, Familiarization with Optical Equipment and Components, Irradiance, Prisms and Lenses, Diffraction Grating Using a Laser Source, Measurement of Beam of Divergence, and more.