Description:

Introduction into optoelectronics and photonics. Basic knowlede on radiation sources, detectors, and energy transfer by radiation. Basics of fiber optics and scales.

Contents:

? Photometric and radiometric analysis..
? Planck law, Wien law, Boltzman law.
? Radiation sources. Thermal sources and its properies.
? Plasma, and luminiscence sources and its properies.
? Quantum sources (lasers) and its properies.
? Review of detectors, selective, non-selective.
? External photoelectric effect detectors (vacuum diode, fotomultiplier).
? Internal photoelectric effect detectors (photoresistor, photodiode, phototransistor?).
? Integrated photo detectors (CCD, CMOS, PSD?).
? Design and calculation of optoelectronic devices.
? Basics of Radiation pyrometry.
? Optical scales and fibers.

Recommended literature:

Moodle
Bukshtab, Michael, Applied Photometry, Radiometry, and Measurements of Optical Losses, Springer Netherlands, 2012.
Recommended:
Emmanuel Rosencher, Borge Vinter, Optoelectronics, Cambridge University Press, 2002

Keywords:

Optoelectronics, photonics, source of radiation, detector, fiber optics.

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar