Course aims:

- Training students to understand the problems of applicative character in the technical fields from the point of view of the fundamental legalities of geometric and undulating optics;
- Develop creative technical thinking by understanding and manipulating the concepts of physics that underlie optically transparent materials and optoelectronic devices.
- Development of students' ability to operate with the concepts of mechanical physics, electricity and optics using the mathematical apparatus specific to the university level (functions of several variables, complex functions, differential operators, etc.);

Course Entry Requirements:

N/A

Course contents:

1. History. Frequency ranges / wavelengths. Refractive indices. Recapitulation of the main properties of light as an electromagnetic wave. Wave-particle duality. 2. Radiation sources. LEDs: operation, features, control, protection 3. Lasers. Semiconductor laser diodes. Characteristics. Structures. 4. Photodiodes: pine, with avalanche. Radiation detectors 5. Analog and digital optocouplers. Characterization, properties, classes of optocouplers. Industrial applications of optocouplers. 6. Amplifiers-isolators. Linearization of the transfer characteristic. 7. Data transmissions on pairs of twisted wires - optically separated UTP / STP cables. 8. Optical fibers. History, characteristics, materials, fiber optic types / classes, aperture, acceptor cone, propagation modes, index profiles. 9. Light fiber injection. Trajectories. Depth of penetration. DWDM Multiplexing, virtual fiber. Fiber optic cables. 10. Fiber optic components: fiber couplers, optical multiplexers. 11. Optical fiber components: fiber connectors, eye diagram, integrated fiber receivers. 12. Integrated optical devices: two-dimensional optical guides, planes, strips, components with optical guides. 13. Couplings with prisms for injection / extraction of radiation from the guide. Diffraction networks. Micro-lenses: geodesic, Luneburg, Fresnel. 14. Functional optical circuits. Examples, applications.

Teaching methods:

Room with video projector, window blinds and whiteboard Room equipped with video projector, teacher's PC, whiteboard, tables for conducting and studying laboratory experiments, 220 VAC sockets, Wi-Fi

Learning outcomes:

C4.3 Identification and optimization of hardware and software solutions of problems related to: industrial, medical, automotive electronics, automation, robotics, production of consumer goods.

Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:

Minimum standard of performance: certified application activities (projects, reports, practical works) must be a minimum of 5 (five); continuous evaluation forms (tests, control works) must be a minimum of 5 (five);

Recommended reading:

Walter Ciciora, s.a., Modern Cable Television Technology: Video, Voice and Data Communications, 2nd ed., Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2004
Govind P. Agrawal, Fiber-Optic Communications, 3rd ed., John Wiley&Sons, Inc 2002.
Achyut K. Dutta, s.a.- WDM TECHNOLOGIES: OPTICAL NETWORKS, vol 3, Elsevier Pub., Academic Press, 2004