Teaching optics: Preuniversity level

Abstract

This paper presents the expirience of introducing the Optics Suitcase, a portable kit for demonstrating optics to students, developed at the Institute of Optics in Rochester, to high school children following experimental curriculum in the area of telecommunications. The main purpose of optics suitcase demonstration was to promote science, especially optics, among high school students and to explore the possibilities of using optics suitcase as a didactical tool in telecommunications.