INTRODUCTION
Advanced optical laboratory is developed for senior engineering physics students in Ankara University. The primary goal of this laboratory is to give students hand on experiences in optics, spectroscopy and fiber optics. Students are going to set up optical experiments on optical breadboards and using optical components provided by each experimental kit. They will get hand on experiences about setting up optical experiments, using lasers and detectors, collimating light sources, aligning beam, building slide projectors, microscopes, interferometer, analyzing polarization status of a light beam, building a monochromator, measuring an absorption and emission spectrometer, handling and cleaving fibers, coupling light sources to a fiber, measuring the attenuation of a fiber spool, etc... Laboratory has five different experimental kits. More than one experiment are going to be performed with each experimental kit. The topics on these notes are organized with the name of the experimental kits. Theoretical background and experimental procedures are given as a separate word files for each experimental kit. Students are grouped and each group performs the following experiments alternatively during the semester.