Optical Signals, Devices, and Systems

Calendar

DAY #	LEC #	TOPICS	DEMOS
1	1	Basics - Review of properties of E&M waves, amplitude, intensity, phase, polarization.
2	2	Reflection, refraction, Snell’s law, critical angle, Brewster’s angle, reflection and transmission coeffs.	Polarizers, magic sheet
3	3	Geometric optics, ray-matrix methods, microscopes, telescopes, lens waveguide.	Telescope
4	4	Temporal and spatial coherence, two-beam and multiple-beam interference, interferometers.
5	5	Scalar diffraction theory, free-space propagation, spatial frequency, Fraunhofer approximation, diffraction-based light modulators.	MMLS System
6	6	Holography - Transmission and reflection holography, recording media, phase-conjugate waves.	White light and CGHs
7	7	Image separation conditions, effects of recording medium resolution. Computer-generated holograms, real-time holography.
8	8	Materials - Interaction of light with matter (classical electron oscillator model), absorption, emission, gain, plasmas.
9	9	Modulators and Displays - Birefringence, index ellipsoid, Pockels and Kerr effect, electro-optic tensor.	Calcite crystal
10	10	Longitudinal and transverse modulators, photorefractive effect, real-time holography.	BaTiO3 Crystal
11	11	Acousto-optic light modulation. Liquid crystal, plasma, electroluminescent, digital-mirror, and membrane-mirror displays.	E-O Modulator LC Modulator
12	12	Sources - Laser principles, spontaneous and stimulated emission, rate eqns, output power.	Scanning F-P
13	13	Optical amplifiers, resonators, specific lasers, LEDs. Organic LEDs and Lasers.	LED emission
14		Quiz 1
15	14	Transmission Systems - Parallel-plate optical waveguide, modes (ray and wave-optics methods).	Fiber samples
16	15	Optical fibers, dispersion, bit rate, WDM, add-drop filters, switches, fiber-optic telecom systems.
17	16	Photodetectors - Thermal and quantum detectors and their characteristics, responsivity, NEP, D*, noise, specific detectors (bolometer, PMT, photodiode, avalanche PD, etc).	Photodiode, PMT
18	17	Metrology - Distance, surface profile, velocity, and 3-D measurements, speckle- and interferometer-based systems.
19	18	Microscopy and coherence tomography systems, LIDAR and LADAR, fiber-optic sensors.
20	19	Optical Processors - Fourier optics, two-lens processor, Vander Lugt filter, matched filters, JTC, polychromatic processors.
21	20	A-O processors, space and time-integrating correlators, radar applications.	CTLP
22	21	Adaptive Optical Systems – Wavefront measurement systems, sharpness function, Unconventional AO, wavefront correctors, stellar imaging and star-wars applications.
23		Quiz 2
24	22	Opto-electronic processors, incoherent image processing systems.
25	23	Storage Technologies - Sequential, page-oriented, ROM, erasable and assoc. memory systems; capacity, access time, readout rate, noise, optical Disk, 3-D memories; photorefractive systems, two-photon systems, spectral hole-burning systems.
26		In-class research project presentations