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.
Learning outcomes
Elaboration of technical specifications, installation and operation of equipment in the fields of applied electronics: power electronics, automatic systems, electricity management, medical electronics, auto electronics, consumer goods.
Evaluation, based on the criteria of technical quality and environmental impact of the equipment in the fields of applied electronics: power electronics, automatic systems, electricity management, medical electronics, auto electronics, consumer goods.
Designing, using established principles and methods of subsystems of reduced complexity,
from the fields of applied electronics