Cognition and thinking on Applied Optics course's reformation and innovation

Abstract

The course of "Applied Optics" is professional and foundational for the specialty of photo-electric information and engineering. According to the characteristics of the specialty, the teaching contents, teaching means, innovations and appraisal methods are mainly discussed in this paper. Firstly, one of the most difficult part to comprehend, the Fermat principle is taken as an example in the teaching content. By using the development history of optics and interesting natural phenomenon, students' understanding of the optical knowledge can be enhanced. Secondly, in various means of teaching art, ZEMAX provides students with a platform of training innovative consciousness and engineering capacity, and it make high cohesion in teaching and scientific research. Thirdly, in the teaching innovation, photoelectric contest can stimulate students' innovative thinking, innovation awareness, and cultivate undergraduate students' optics, mechanics, electricity, numerology integrated design capabilities. Lastly, the reform in the appraisal methods guide students from focusing on the examination results to pay attention to the learning process. Eventually, students' study interest has improved, demand of the engineering practice has adapted, and the well teaching effect has realized.Keywords: Applied Optics, Fermat principle, Innovation, development history of optics 1． INTRODUCTIONThere have been many calls for the reform of the course of the Applied Optics. Although the development of China's optics can be traced back to 3000 years ago, and history books have recorded why people can see, the connection between seeing things and the light is studied. But until 1952 the university began to systematically learn the knowledge of optics firstly, when the establishment of Specialty of Optical Instrument of Zhejiang University for the first time in china. Since then, the opt-electric information science and engineering specialty of other colleges and universities have been successive established.Applied Optics, the professional course, was opened for the first batch of Zhejiang University optical instrument professional students, in optical professional learning. In Hefei University of Technology, the applied optics, not only the professional required course of the "opt-electric information science and engineering specialty" and the "Measuring and controlling technology and instrument specialty", but also one of the most important courses in the discipline of optical engineering. It is not only the prerequisite course of the subsequent courses, but also can constitute a relatively complete optical system of theory to practice with physical optics, image quality evaluation technology, optical experiment, the optical design course. Applied optics teaching not only laid the foundation for the follow-up professional courses, but also try to develop students' critical thinking and problem-solving ability [1][2] course, we need to constantly explore and study the application of optical teaching content and teaching methods, and ...