Catalog Description: Introduces fundamental concepts, techniques, and technology of modern optical and photonic systems. Individual labs cover particular fields of optical technology, including light sources such as lasers and LEDs, interferometers, fiber-optic communications, photodetection, spectrometers, and holography. Practical skills such as how to align an optical system will also be emphasized.

Prerequisite: ECEN 3400 Electromagnetic Fields and Waves, or PHYS 4510, Optics

Textbook: Fundamentals of Photonics, Saleh and Teich, Wiley, 1991.

Course Objectives: The experiments provide students with hands-on experience in modern optics and show them direct applications of Maxwell's equations, studied in ECEN 3130. This will deepen their understanding of more theoretical courses and expose them to the field of modern optics.

Topics:

Fourier optics
Holography
Photodetectors
Fiber optics
Polarization
Imaging
Mirrors and prisms
Sources
Interferometers
Liquid crystals

Class Schedule: 1 hour of lecture, 4 hours of lab per week.

Contribution of course to meeting Criterion 4, the professional component: This course provides 3 semester hours of electrical engineering topics consisting of engineering sciences and engineering design.

Relationship of course to program outcomes: This course is not required and is not included in outcomes assessment.

Prepared by: Vincent Heuring
June 29, 2005

ECEN Courses

ECEN 4606 - Optics Laboratory

Elective - 3 credit hours On-Line Course Materials

Elective - 3 credit hours
On-Line Course Materials