Catalog Description
Light propagation in fibers and waveguides; termination, coupling, and splicing of fibers; fiber optic communication; optical time domain reflectometry, fiber amplifiers, and fiber sensors. Prerequisite: Physical Optics EE450
Course Objectives
At the end of this course, all students should be able to
- Calculate modal propagation in fiber optics
- Quantify absorption, scattering, bending, radiation, and connection losses
- Calculate and measure dispersion
- Estimate bandwidth of an optical fiber system
- Describe and use optical time domain reflectometry
- Explain common non-linear fiber effects
- Introduction
- Ray optics
- Numerical aperture
- Fiber losses
- Lab: SMA Connectors
- Guided Light
- Rays
- Paths
- Graded Index
- Lab: Polishing and Efficiency
- Planar Waveguide
- Eigenvalues solutions
- Mode properties
- Lab: Fusion Splicing
- Cylindrical Waveguides
- Bessel Functions
- Diffraction Optics
- Gaussian Beams
- Lab: Fiber Sensors
- Dispersion
- Waveguide dispersion
- Fiber dispersion
- Pulse propagation
- Lab: OTDR
- Non-linearities
- Optical Kerr effect
- Self-phase modulation
- Solitons
- Lab:
- Continuous Wave Lasers
- Rate Equations
- 3 and 4 level lasers
- Multi-mode and Single-mode
- Lab:
- Non-linear Evolution
- Evolution
- Propogation
- Mode Locking
- Lab:
- Next Generation Fibers
- Photonic Crystals
- Nano-fiber tips
- Antennas
- Lab: xxx
- Optical Fiber Amplifiers
- Stimulated emssion
- Gain Doped Fibers
- Lab: