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.
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.
Course Outline
- Overview
- Ray optics
- Numerical aperture
- Fiber losses
- Lab: Cleaving and Polishing
- Modes
- TE \& TM Modes
- cladding modes
- Graded Index
- Lab: Fusion and Connectors
- Dispersion
- Material Dispersion
- Modal Dispersion
- Waveguide Dispersion
- Lab: Optical Time Domain Reflectometry
- Transmitters
- LEDs
- DFB Lasers
- VCSELS
- Lab: Diode Circuits
- Receivers
- Diodes
- Modulation
- Amplifier Noise
- Lab: Avalanche Detectors
- Optical Coupling
- Directional Coupler
- Integrated interferometers
- Circulators
- Lab: Diode Circuits
- Optical Amplifiers
- Semiconductor amplifiers
- Rare-earth doped fibers
- Raman amplifiers
- Lab: Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifier
- Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- Broadband WDM
- Multipexers
- Sources
- Lab: Erbium-doped Fiber Amplifier
- Sensors
- Interferometers
- Gyroscopes
- Polarimetric Sensors
- Lab: Optical Gyroscope
- Review
- Optical Fibers
- Sources and Receivers
- Components
- Lab: none