Course Description
Covers basic physics and system aspects of a wide range of photonics technologies and aims to help students understand the principles and properties of laser and photonics and how they are applied to real-life examples. Provides hands-on lab experience and visits to the fiber-optics lab.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Graduate students have to complete four experiments and a
project with both oral presentation and written report. Both
experiments and project challenge the student to go deeper into
the course subject. These requirements can include creating and
executing a project independently, as well as analyzing the
experimental results in an in-depth lab report.
Athena Title
Principles of Lasers Photonics
Prerequisite
PHYS 1251 or PHYS 1211-1211L
Undergraduate Pre or Corequisite
Third-Year Student Standing
Semester Course Offered
Offered every year.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
By the end of this course, a successful student will be able to: • Understand the basic principles and properties of laser and photonics, and how they are applied to various real-life examples • Have hands-on experience in handling optical fibers and lasers
Topical Outline
• Overview of fiber communications • Optical fibers and their properties • LED and laser sources • Power launching and coupling • Optical detectors and receivers • Repeaters, regenerators, and optical amplifiers • Optical communication systems • Fiber optics components • Ultrafast and nonlinear fiber optics • Recent developments in photonics technology
Syllabus