Photonics Fundamentals Information for Iowa High School Teachers

The Developing Photonics Education in Iowa's Rural Secondary Schools project created a hybrid and dual credit course to increase the number of photonics technicians in the U.S. This resource includes materials that were created to further outreach and recruitment efforts for the course. Project staff went to interested secondary schools as guest speakers and gave presentations on the course. Students and teachers attended these events.

These outreach materials include a 4-page supporting information document and six presentations. The supporting document discusses the outreach effort. The presentations cover the following topics: the nature and properties of light, optical components and handling, laser safety and light sources, geometric optics, physical optics, and the basic principles of lasers.

Course materials and other supporting work is available to view separately. Below is a list of folders contained within the .zip attachment. The size of each folder and number of files is included in parenthesis. 

DPE Outreach (9 files, 10.8 MB)

• Photonics Fundamentals Information for IA H.S. Teachers
  • Nature and Properties of Light (#1 Nature & Properties of Light.pptx.pdf 1.8 MB)
  • Optical Components and Handling (#2 Optical Components and Handling .pptx.pdf 2.1 MB)
  • Laser Safety and Light Sources (#3 Laser Safety & Light Sources.pptx.pdf 1.8 MB)
  • Geometric Optics (#4 Geometric Optics.pdf 1.3 MB)
  • Physical Optics (#5 Physical Optics.pdf 1.4 MB)
  • Basics of Principles of Lasers (#6 Basic Principles of Lasers.pdf 1.1 MB)
• Supporting Information Report (Supporting Information Report.pdf 1.4 MB)