Video Courses
Demonstrations in Lasers and Optics
Lasers today are being used in an ever-increasing number of applications. In fact, there is hardly a field that has not been touched by the laser. Lasers are playing key roles in the home, office, hospital, as well as in the laboratory.
To learn about lasers and related optics, one usually takes a course or two, or acquires the necessary information from books and journal articles. To make this learning more exciting, and, one hopes, more understandable, one needs to see some of the basic phenomena involved.
To fill this need, Professor Ezekiel has videotaped 48 demonstrations that illustrate most of the fundamental phenomena relating to lasers and physical optics. The demonstrations are conveniently grouped in ten video-cassettes. By using split-screen inserts and a wide range of video recording capabilities, it is possible to show real-time effects in lasers and optics with the simultaneous manipulation of the components that cause these effects. In this way, one can see effects in close up that would be difficult, if not impossible, to display in front of an audience or in the classroom.
Watch a sample video clip!
(850k QuicktTime movie)
The experimental setups are made simple enough to follow and ample references are given for background reading. In addition, several puzzles are left for the viewer to solve.
Titles of Individual Videocassettes
- Overview of Demonstrations in Lasers and Optics
- Optics: Polarization of Light and Polarization Manipulation
- Optics: Reflection at Dielectric Interfaces
- Optics: Two-Beam Interference
- Optics: Multiple-Beam Interference
- Optics: Fraunhofer and Fresnel Diffraction
- Optics: Propagation in Optical Fibers
- Laser Fundamentals I
- Laser Fundamentals II
- Laser Fundamentals Ill
For more information, please contact zeelase@yahoo.com.