PHOTONICS IA

PHOTONICS IA
Course Code
EG 3585
Credit Points
15
Course Coordinator
Prof J Watson

Pre-requisites

EG 2510, EG 1567

Notes

Available only to students following an Honours degree programme. This course is not available during session 2009/10.

Overview

Proposed content: The photonics system; Introduction to wave optics; Introduction to geometric optics; Laser theory; Laser engineering (optical cavities, pumping, population inversion, output power etc); Laser types (diode, solid state, gas, excimer, fibre, tuneable etc); Laser properties (monochromaticity, coherence, beam divergence and profiles, irradiance, focusing ability etc); Laser refinements (Q-switching, frequency-doubling, diode pumping etc); Laser safety; CASE STUDY: design of a solid state laser; Modern photonics components (SLMs, LCDs, HOEs etc); Photodetectors (junction diodes, thermal, photomultipliers, CCD, CMOS etc).

Structure

2 one-hour lectures and 1 one-hour tutorial per week and also 18 hours of design work in total.

Assessment

1st Attempt: 1 three-hour written examination (80%); continuous assessment (20%).

Resit: 1 three-hour examination (100%).