Education
E-Day 2010: Overcoming Barriers to Teaching Optics
More than ever, we need today's students to embrace science. The 2010 Science Educator's Day was developed to help secondary-school teachers find the time and opportunity to make optics a part of their curricula.
Happy photons—monochromatic, collimated and coherent—propagate out of the gain medium.
There is an increasing gap between the need for optics professionals and the availability of graduates who are prepared to fill those positions. Students must embrace science in middle school in order to prepare for the strong math, science and language training that they'll need in high school and beyond in order to build an optics career. Only well-prepared students will thrive in rigorous college science and engineering programs. Precollege educators are the ones who can set students on this path.
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