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.— - ...... Session No: 1626
- . “ESTABLISHING AN OPTICAL COMMUNICATION LABORATORY”
BERTRAM PARISER Ph.D. CYRUS MEHERJI YUQIN HO
TECHNICAL CAREER INSTITUTES
GRANT NO. DUE -9452459
This is the first time Technical Career Institutes (TCI) has applied for an NSF grant.
Building a brand new, fullyfunctional lab was a monumental task both scientifically and
administratively for TCI. For many years, we have only had to modify, expand or
duplicate existing labs.
We started by transforming a classroom into a laboratory. We purchased equipment for
the optical communications lab, Pasco Complete Optical System, Optel (Optical
Communications Kit), and the College provided us with other measurement
instrumentation. TCI also provides us with the ability to interface with the outside world
and gave us INTERNET and E Mail.
We acquired a complete optical system that would give us exposure to the various topics
of geometrical optics and would give students hands-on experience. The OPTEL
experiment set made by Pasco includes a complete set of experiments concerning basic
communications in fiber optics. However, we are now reaching a point where we have
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Pariser, B., & Meherji, C., & Ho, Y. (1996, June), Establishing An Optical Communication Laboratory Paper presented at 1996 Annual Conference, Washington, District of Columbia. 10.18260/1-2--6039
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