Optical Materials and Devices (ELCT 601)
Offered By:
Information Engineering and Technology Faculty
Description
- Basic Effects Regarding The Interaction of Light With Matter Reflection, Absorption, Refraction, Radiation laws
- Introduction to Lasers Stimulated emission, population inversion Two-level laser, more-than-two-level laser (where do these energy levels come from)
- Semiconductors Introduction to solid state physics (energy band model, conductor, insulator, semiconductor), Junctions, ordinary diodes (short repetition)
- Light Emitting Diodes
- Semiconductor Lasers (Laser Diodes) Physics of the laser diode Different structures of laser diodes, advantages and disadvantages of different structures regarding efficiency, beam quality, mono mode operation
- Modulation of Laser Light principles of light modulation (Pockels, Kerr, Faraday) modulation of laser light (Pockels’ Cell etc.)
- Photo Detectors Principles how light can be transformed into electric signals Presentation of different detectors using these principles
- Examples of Application of laser diodes and photo detectors in e.g. communication