ECE/PH 483/583 Guided Wave Optics, Spring 2007
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Welcome to the ECE 483/583 Guided Wave Optics web site. This site contains information and downloadable materials for the class and laboratory that you will need during the course. Below are links to the documentation for each required lab experiment. You should download the PDF file that corresponds to each experiment and complete the preparatory reading and questions before your assigned lab time. Keep in mind that your preparation for each experiment will help you be successful in the lab.
Instructor: Thomas K. (Tom) Plant [tkp], Office: KEC 3123; Phone: 737-2984; E-mail: tkp@eecs.orst.edu, Office Hours: MWF 3-4 or by e-mail appointment
Class TA: Linda Engelbrecht, Office:
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Class Meeting Times: MWF 2:00-2:50, Location: KEC 1001
Labs: Tuesday 9-10:30, 1-2:30 Location:
Lab Assignments:
Lab 1 (Week 2) – Introduction / Lab Safety / Photodetectors
Lab 2 (Week 3) – Cleaving
optical fibers / Measuring NA / Laser beam profiles/ (Pictures of optical fibers - link) /Quiz
on Lab 1
Lab 3 (Week 4) – Optical
fiber / SM and MM modes / Measuring index profiles / Paper
on index profile measurements/ Quiz
on Lab 2
Lab 4 (Week 5) – Optical
sources / Diode Lasers & LEDs / Quiz
on Lab 3
Lab 5 (Week 6) – Attenuation
/ Dispersion / OTDR / Fusion splicing (demo)/ Quiz on Lab 4
Lab 6 (Week 7) – Er-doped
fiber amplifier (EDFA) and WDM / Fiber laser (demo)/ Quiz on Lab 5
Lab 7 (Week 8) – Project
proposal / Start project / Progress report / Specs on various Corning
fibers: 100/140;
62.5/125;
SMF
28; InfiniCor300;
InfiniCor600;
donated
Corning fiber
Week 9 – Progress report / Finish project
Week 10 – Project demonstrations to class / Final reports
Lab Quizes:
Quiz #1 solutions (Safety, Photodetectors)
Quiz #2 solutions (Cleaving, measuring NA, beam profiles)
Quiz #3 solutions (SM and MM fibers, mode patterns, index
profiles - SI and GRIN)
Quiz #4 solutions
(Waveguide sources – LDs and
LEDs)
Quiz #5 solutions (OTDR, attenuation)
Quiz #6 solutions (EDFA and fiber laser) omit since late getting set up
Simulation Files:
Linear Technology - LT Spice
Photodiode
Circuit
Laser
Diode Circuit
Reading Assignments:
Week 1 Chapters 1 and 7 – FO
Communication Systems and Detectors
Week 2 Chapters 2 and 3 – Optics
review and Lightwave Fundamentals
Week 3 Fiber
sensor review paper by Eric Udd;
Chapter 5 – Optical Fiber Waveguides
Week 4 Chapter 6 – Optical
Sources
Week 5 Chapter 5 – continued
Week 6 Chapter 6 - continued
Week 7 Fiber-optic
chemical sensors and biosensors by Otto Wolfbeis
Week 8 Chapter 4 – Planar dielectric
waveguides (theory)
Week 9 Chapter 5 and notes –
optical fiber waveguides (theory)
Week 10 Student project presentations
Homework Assignments:
Homework Assignment #1: Ch 7: Problems 1, 2, 5, 6, 12, 18,
19 (due Fri, Apr 13, 2007) Homework #1 Solutions
Homework Assignment #2: Ch 1:
3, 14, 23, 27, 30 Ch 2:
6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 (due Fri,
4/20/07) Homework #2 Solutions
Homework Assignment #3: Ch 3: 1, 2, 3, 13, 15, 24 Ch 5: 7, 8, 20, 21 (due Mon, 4/30/07) Homework #3 Solutions
Literature
Review Assignment: (due Wed, 5/16/07) note new due date!
Homework Assignment #4:
Ch 6: 5, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15,
26 (due Wed, 5/23/07) Homework #4 Solutions
Homework Assignment #5: Ch 4: 2, 3, 5, 6, 9, 13, 20 Ch 5:
9, 10, 23, 26 (due Wed, 5/30/07) Homework #5 Solutions
Midterm Exam Solutions:
Some Optics Companies in
http://www.nlightphotonics.com/
http://www.aculight.com/
http://www.flextronics.com/manufacturing/Photonics/designNPI.asp
http://www.maxtek.com/
http://www.pnl.gov/
http://www.phoseon.com/
http://www.flir.com/
http://www.bluerr.com/
http://www.pkinetics.com/
http://www.hindspem.com/
http://www.esi.com/careers/default.asp
Optics Jobs - A small collection of your TA's favorite search sites
http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Employment/NationalOpenings.htm
http://www.spieworks.com/employment/
http://www.workinoptics.com/
http://optics.org/jobs/
Interesting
http://optics.org/
http://www.photonics.com/
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May 9, 2007 tkp