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Acknowledgments The Physics of LASERs was produced at the American Physical Society as a part of LaserFest, the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the creation of the laser. LaserFest was a joint project of the American Physical Society, IEEE Photonics Society, OSA, and SPIE. We are pleased to acknowledge the support of our funders: • National Science Foundation, Grant # PHY-0900403 • U.S. Department of Energy, Grant # SC0001436 Authors Heide Doss Ed Lee Monica Plisch Graphic Designer Nancy Bennett-Karasik Field Test Teachers Joe Boettcher Blair Magnet Program Silver Spring, MD Deward Houck, Esq. Steele Canyon Charter High School Spring Valley, CA Jeff Major High Tech High International Point Loma, CA James Schafer Blair Magnet Program Silver Spring, MD Other Contributors Chris Discenza, American Physical Society Steve Rolston, University of Maryland Becky Thompson, American Physical Society Educational Innovations Lesson 2 of The Physics of LASERs is based on the PhET Lasers simulation, which was produced in the physics department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. We highly recommend the PhET simulations to physics students and teachers. Copyright 2010 American Physical Society Cover Image: Green diode-pumped solid state laser pumping a Titanium Sapphire laser. Image courtesy of: Sara DeSavage and Kyle Gordon, Laboratory of F.A. Narducci, Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md 1
2 Table of Contents Teacher Introduction Acknowledgements ..................................................................................... 1 Intro to Teacher Edition ...............................................................................3 Lesson 1. What’s Special about LASER Light? ................................. 8 Lesson 2. How Does a LASER Work? ..................................................18 Lesson 3. What are Some Applications of LASERs? .......................30 Appendix ..........................................................................................................40
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