About AOL

The Advanced Optics Laboatory (AOL) is a graduate-level advanced optics laboratory course covering very modern topics in optical science and engineering. In Spring 2006 it is jointly taught by Prof's Kelvin Wagner in ECE and Dana Z. Anderson in Physics.

AOL is prepares a graduate student with modern optical laboratory techniques that they are likely to encounter or need in their research. The subject matter of the labs covers a broad range, from nonlinear optics to interferometry to laser cooling to ultrafast lasers. The exposure to a variety of techniques is correspondingly broad from general optical and opto-mechanical techniques to precision measurement. In its variety the AOL learning experience is unique.

There are twelve laboratory experiments, six are given in ECE and the other six in physics. The diagram below shows the room layout for the physics portion: the AOL rooms are contained within the teaching labs in Duane Physics, room G-214.