This website provides a reference for terms, industry abbreviations, acronyms, and symbols in use in optics, lasers, imaging, fiber optics, electro-optics and optoelectronics.
V. Borish, A. Werth, and H. Lewandowski, PERC 2022 Proceedings, 57-63.
The second quantum revolution has prompted not only research in quantum science and technology, but also research on how best to educate students who may enter this burgeoning field.…
P. Justice, E. Marshman, and C. Singh, PERC 2022 Proceedings, 261-266.
We report on an investigation in which we compare the conceptual performance of upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, who worked on two different validated Quantum…
N. Sorensen, AAPT Summer Meeting (2012).
For many purposes, you can consider light to propagate as rays, explaining phenomena such as shadows or imaging with a pin-hole camera. Even refraction of light at interfaces between…
B. Zwickl, J. Olivera, K. Martin, and K. Winans, PERC 2015 Proceedings, 391-394.
Preliminary results are presented from an ongoing study that is investigating both academic and industrial career paths in optics and photonics. By grounding the discussion of…