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>> Up next on ATE TV, pursuing the educational pathways
to a career working with lasers and photonics.
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>> A degree in lasers and photonics requires a combination
of several types of math and science courses in order
to understand the use and application
of lasers in today's world.
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>> Now this century is the century of photonics,
and of lasers like 20th century was the century of electricity.
You will align the interferometer
with the Helium Neon laser.
>> Every day there's a new application coming
out for lasers, and not enough technicians
to support those applications and those companies.
We need students to go into technology programs
like ours -- lasers and photonics.
>> Photonics is a science and technology that deals
with generation, transmission,
and utilization of light energy.
>> In a class of photonic measurements,
we can measure a billion times smaller than a meter,
which is a nanometer, and that's what we use to measure light.
>> First year the core classes are electronics.
For second year the core classes are photonics --
controlling light energy.
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We not only teach out of the book and the science of it
and the theory, we also do a lot of lab work.
We have high-powered laser labs, we have a lot
of hands-on activities and a lot of experiments.
>> It's not that we're just getting talked to all day,
we're actually doing it ourselves.
>> They know how to build circuits, how to test circuits,
and use the equipment.
>> 952 nanometers and 476 nanometers.
>> They have to have a understanding of science,
and a understanding of math entering into the program.
>> Half it, and we get 532 nanometers, okay?
>> We do a lot of algebra and trig functions.
There's math in every one of the science classes to come
up with the formulas, so.
>> Students graduating from this program may go
into many different areas.
They may go to work building and testing lasers,
and then there's the service end of it.
'Cause lasers are used in the medical field, they're used
in the doctor's office, dentist's office,
someone has to go there and maintain those lasers,
someone has to go there and troubleshoot the lasers,
and teach the people how to use them.
Those are field service engineering jobs.
We prepare people
to be outstanding employees in the industry.
>> They have special skills to how to work with lasers,
how to assemble optical elements and structures.
That is why they are in high demand.
>> For more information on anything you've seen today,
explore our website at atetv.org.
Thanks for watching.