Course detail
Integrated Optoelectronics
FEKT-MPC-IOPAcad. year: 2025/2026
Novel opto-electronics components in photonics, optical communications and sensorics. Coherent and noncoherent semiconductor optical sources, fast detectors, circuitry of the optical transmitters and receivers. Building blocks of integrated and fibre optics, splitters, wave division mux and demuxes, fibre isolators, polarization rotators, circulators, filters, add-drop multiplexers, Bragg gratings, Fabry-Perot filters. Dispersion compensation the singlemode communication links. Optical fibre amplification. Nonlinear effects in fibres and their utilization - generation and transfer of solitons, spontaineous and stimulated Raman scattering and its applications in fibre amplifiers and sensing, spontaineous and stimulated Brillouen scattering in sensing, four wave mixing and implication to the wave division multiplex. Coherent optical signal transfer. Modulation an coding in the optical communications. Optical communication in telecommunication systems. Optical wavelength division multiplexing, WWDM, CWDM, DWDM. Polarization maintaining and microstructured fibres in photonic applications. Optical fibre sensors, amplitude, spectral and interferometric senzoric structures with optical waveguides.
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Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Department
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
30 pts - labs and seminars
Laboratory workshop
Aims
Attendant is able to orient himself in the design of optical communication systems, knows to compose the optical communication chain from the suitable components and fitted to the application. The attendant is able to select optimal solution, components and blocks for building up the the optical communication chain. Attendant is oriented in the applications of optoelectronics and photonics sensoric and measurement systems.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Kashyap, R.: Fiber Bragg Gratings. Academic Press, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-12-372579-0. (EN)
Saleh B. E. A., Teich M. C.: Fundamentals of photonics, New York, Wiley, 1991. (EN)
Y. Chai, Applied Photonics, Academic Press, California, 1994. (EN)
Recommended reading
Schroffel, J. - Novotný, K. Optické vlnovody. Praha, SNTL-ALFA 1986. (CS)
Classification of course in study plans
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Lecture
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Syllabus
- Optical radiation, features, propagation in media
- Optical waveguides, features
- Dispersions and signal transfer in fibres.
- Novel components in photonics, optical communications and sensorics. Bragg gratings, resonators, filters
- Coherent a noncoherent semiconductor optical sources, fast photodetecors, obvody optical transmitter, receiver circuits
- Pasive components of integrated and fibre optics, splitters, WDM couplers, isolators, circulators, ADM.
- Fibre based quantum amplifiers.
- Noninear effects in optical fibres, spontaneous and stimulatedý Raman and Brillouen scattering, communication and sensoric application
- Generation and transfer of solitons, four wave mixing.
- Coherent optical signal transfer and processing. Coding and modulation in optical communications.
- Optical communications in LANs, industrial and telecom systems. Optical wavelength multiplex, WWDM, CWDM, DWDM.
- Polarisation maintaining and microstructured optical fibres, utilisation in measurement and sensorics.
- Amplitude, spectrum and interferometry based sensoric structures with optical fibers.
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Coherence of radiation, properties of laser radiation, applications in laser interferometry
Frequency spectrum of coherent and incoherent radiation, measurement methods
Polarisation of light, use for density measurements of liquids, experimental use in 3D imaging
Quantum properties of light, verification of quantum behaviour, experimental use in measurements
Principles of Fourier optics in 4f optical system, image formation and manipulation, processing techniques
Welding of single-mode, multimode, polarization-preserving optical fibres