Selected Video Clips from Laboratories

Optics for Scientists and Engineers

Physics/ECE 411/611

Physics/ECE 411L/611L

 

North Dakota State University

 

INSTRUCTIONS:   You must have a viewer capable of playing avi files.

 If you do, simply click on the link to view the movie.  You may experience

a delay of a few seconds while the file loads.  These videos should be

viewed while consulting the laboratory descriptions that can be found

elsewhere on this Web site.

 

 

 

Week

Lab Number

Topic

Link to a Video Clip Related to the Experiment

1

No Lab

 

 

2

No Lab

 

 

3

1

Detection of light

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/ChopperShtCmp.avi

 

4

2

Absorption

 

 

5

3

Index of refraction, total internal reflection, and critical angle

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/PrsDisDotShtCmp.avi

 

6

4

Lenses and simple lens systems

 

 

7

5

Preparing optical fibers and fiber optic numerical aperture

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/SplicFibShtCmp.avi

 

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/NumApertShtCmp.avi

 

 

7

5

Supplement

 

 

8

6

Fiber optic light attenuation

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/FibLesBritShtCmp.avi

 

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/ScramblerIShtCmp.avi

 

9

7

Single-mode fibers

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/LPtwoCmp.avi

 

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/LPfourCmp.avi

 

10

8

Optical polarization

 

11

9

Interference and diffraction

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/OvrViewDfrCmp.avi

 

http://www.ece.ndsu.nodak.edu/~drogers/Optics2004/labvideos/DiffrPattShtCmp.avi

 

12

10

Spectrometry

 

 

12

10

Alignment

 

 

13

Major Project

Optics project related to student's academic major

 

14

Major Project

Optics project related to student's academic major

 

15

Major Project

Optics project related to student's academic major

 

16

Present Results

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