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Resource title: Photonics Lab Manual for High Schools (2018)
Producer: OP-TEC / LASER-TEC (NSF ATE national centers), hosted by SPIE

Source (landing page): https://spie.org/education/technician-resources/op-tec-course-materials
Download URL: https://spie.org/Documents/Courses/OP-TEC/Photonics_Lab_Manual_for_High_Schools_2018.pdf
Retrieved: 2026-07-19 (SPIE blocks plain curl UA; downloaded with a browser UA)

Contents:
  - Photonics_Lab_Manual_for_High_Schools_2018.pdf (78pp; experiments in
    polarization, filters, lenses, diffraction, beam divergence, each with a
    low-cost optics equipment list)

Hardware: low-cost optics — lenses, polarizers, filters, diffraction gratings,
laser pointers/diodes, spectrometer.

NSF award: OP-TEC is an NSF ATE national center (award not cited on page).
Rights: OP-TEC/SPIE educational materials, openly distributed.