Optical Engineering in Education

Ronald G. Driggers

doi:10.1117/1.OE.51.5.050101

16 May 2012 Optical Engineering in Education

Ronald G. Driggers

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 51, Issue 5, 050101 (May 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.5.050101

Abstract

I wrote many years ago that I felt physicists and photonics scientists were like Spock on Star Trek and that optical engineers were like Scotty. Spock would always understand the physics behind the problems and would usually save the day through some ground-breaking discovery that, on earth, would win the Nobel Prize. Scotty, in the meantime, would use what Spock had discovered to kluge together an effective way to power or protect the ship.

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Ronald G. Driggers "Optical Engineering in Education," Optical Engineering 51(5), 050101 (16 May 2012). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.OE.51.5.050101

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