Rami Arieli - Project manager and wrote the content

• Finished his Ph. D. in physics (Electro-Optics) at Tel Aviv University, ISRAEL.
• Worked for 6 years at "Laser Industries" in Tel Aviv, as a Project Manager in the R&D department.
• 1990-1996 - Worked at the Weizmann Institute of Science, in the Science Teaching Department, developing curriculum materials for High School students. One of the results is a course on "Lasers and their Applications".
• 1997 - Visiting Prof. at KSU, developing this computerized version of this course ...
• 1998 till present, Science teaching dept. - Weizmann Institute of Science.


E-mail: ntariel@wis.weizmann.ac.il

William DeHaven - Wrote the first HTML code (between 15/1/97-26/5/97).

• Undergraduate physics major at KSU - graduating in May 1997.
• Worked as an aviation electronics technician and avionics shop manager for 21 years, and has studied microcomputer programming and applications as a hobby for 20 years.

Joseph Pingenot - Continued with HTML code (between 26/5/97-31/8/97).

• When not sleeping or playing computer games, undergraduate physics and computer engineering major.
• Graduating May, 2000-2001.
• Worked/is working in various jobs over time.
• Studying in Giessen, Germany in 1998.

Jack (Yu-liang) Liu -Wrote some of the JAVA applets (between 1/4/97-30/5/97).

• Graduate student in the Department of Computing and Information Sciences at KSU.
• Finished his B.S. in Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994.
• Worked for 2 years as a software developer for a consulting firm in California.

Acknowledgments:

The author would like to thank:

• Prof. Uri Ganiel, head of the science teaching department of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, for enabling him to develop this course on lasers, and for his support throughout the work.
• Prof. Dean Zollman, head of the physics education research group, of the physics department at KSU, for inviting him to spend a sabbatical leave at KSU, and for his helpful comments after reviewing the content of the entire web site.
• All the colleagues, students and teachers that participated in courses on the subject, given by the author, read parts of the manuscript, or discussed the subjects with the author.