@inproceedings{1042a10bec0f40fe8a00206c47db7a07,
title = "The digital holography demonstration: A table-Top setup for STEM-based outreach events",
abstract = "The SPIE Student Chapter at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) is spearheading a new outreach project to encourage science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in grades K-12. This new outreach project is referred to as the Digital Holography Demonstration (DHD). Using a table-Top setup, the DHD estimates the both the amplitude and phase of the complex-optical field, and in so doing, illustrates several fundamental optics and photonics principles including diffraction, refraction, and the interference of light. These fundamental optics and photonics principles have direct ties to current technologies being developed in the medical, astronomy, and defense communities (to name a few). This paper celebrates the resourcefulness of the DHD for STEM-based outreach events and provides a parts list, cost breakdown, and brochures, so that future efforts can benefit from its design.",
keywords = "Digital holography, Optics and photonics, Outreach, Physics education, Spatial heterodyne, SPIE Optics Outreach Games, SPIE student chapter, STEM",
author = "Thornton, \{Douglas E.\} and Spencer, \{Mark F.\} and Plimmer, \{Barton T.\} and Davin Mao",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2018 SPIE.; Optics Education and Outreach V 2018 ; Conference date: 22-08-2018",
year = "2018",
doi = "10.1117/12.2320380",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Gregory, \{G. Groot\}",
booktitle = "Optics Education and Outreach V",
}