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Professional Development Opportunities

LASER-TEC strives to help educators stay abreast with the technology development and applications. LASER-TEC hosts training for college and high school educators in the areas of photonics, lasers, and fiber optics.

A course in lasers can be added to revive any electronics, engineering technology, manufacturing, or industrial technology program. Laser is the tool that daily transforms the 21st century industry. Femto-second lasers are used in medicine for non-ablative surgery and in micromachining to make medical stents and drill holes with smaller diameters than the human hair. Lasers attached to robotic arms do the majority of industrial welding, cutting, and drilling on metals or plastics. A course in lasers and their applications can modernize your program and increase your enrollment.

Fiber optics is another technology that has matured and is making its mark in the 21st century. Aside from telecommunications, where the optical fiber has created today’s Internet with the ever increasing demand for bandwidth, fiber sensors are used in medicine, in structures like bridges, sky-scrapers, and ships to detect the most minute structural changes. In the last five years the fiber laser,  a laser using a specially doped fiber as its active medium, has taken the industry by storm, replacing older type lasers because of its lower cost and size, and higher reliability. A course in fiber optics can modernize your program and increase your enrollment.



Lasers

  1. Lasers and Fiber Optics
  2. Professional development workshop for middle and high school
    educators. Click here to learn more about the workshop.

  3. OP-TEC Course 1: Fundamentals of Light and Lasers 
  4. Free Online course covering the following topics:
    • Module 1: Nature and Properties of Light
    • Module 2: Optical Handling and Positioning
    • Module 3: Light Sources and Laser Safety
    • Module 4: Basic Geometrical Optics
    • Module 5: Basic Physical Optics
    • Module 6: Principles of Lasers Upon completion of
      the course a two day hands-on lab session at IRSC
      is required.

    For more information about the course click here.

    OP-TEC Course 2: Elements of Photonics 
    Free Online course offered by OP-TEC. To learn more about
    the course click here.

Fiber Optics


  1. LASER-TEC & PCS
  2. Professional training for fiber optics technicians

  3. Fiber Optics Association
  4. Fiber U Online learning website. Contains self-study programs, tutorials, textbooks, videos, and other resources. Click here to view website. 

  5. Corning Cable Systems
  6. “See the Light”
     Free workshop for instructors, students, fiber optics designers, and installers. Click here to visit.


 
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