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ECE/PH 483/583 Guided Wave Optics, Spring 2008

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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: F 10-12 or by e-mail appointment

Class TA: Ram Ravichandran, Office: in Dearborn 302A lab, E-mail: ravichra@engr.orst.edu Office Hours (Dear 302A): E-mail to set up appointment

Class Meeting Times: MWF 2:00-2:50, Location: KEC 1001

Labs: Tuesday 9-10:30, 1030-1200, 1200-1330 Location: Dearborn 222

Lab Assignments:
Lab 1 (Week 1) – Introduction / Lab Safety / Photodetectors / Laser beam profiles/ Focusing Gaussian beams / Beam Scan operation

Lab 2 (Week 2) – Cleaving optical fibers / Measuring NA / (Pictures of optical fibers - link) / Quiz on Lab 1
Lab 3 (Week 3) – Optical fiber / SM and MM modes / Measuring index profiles / Paper on index profile measurements/ Quiz on Lab 2
Lab 4 (Week 4) – Optical sources / Diode Lasers & LEDs / Quiz on Lab 3

Lab 5 (Week 5) – Attenuation / Dispersion / OTDR / Fusion splicing (demo)/ Quiz on Lab 4
Lab 6 (Week 6) – Er-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) and WDM / Fiber laser (demo)/ Quiz on Lab 5
Project (Week 7) – Project proposal / Start project / Progress report / Specs on various Corning fibers: 100/140; 62.5/125; SMF 28; InfiniCor300; InfiniCor600; donated Corning fiber

Week 8 – Progress report

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    Chapter 5 – Optical Fiber Waveguides
Week 4    Chapter 6 – Optical Sources
Week 5    Chapter 5 – continued
Week 6   Chapter 6 - continued
Week 7    Fiber sensor review paper by Eric Udd;    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 1: 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 25, 26, 27, 28 Ch 2: 6, 9, 11, 12, 15 (due Mon, 4/14/08) Homework #1 Solutions
Homework Assignment #2: Homework #2 Solutions