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Courses related to photonics offered by Virginia Tech and the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. |
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| ECE5144 • Introduction
to Electro-Optics — Physical optics, wave propagation in inhomogeneous
media, acousto-optic and electro-optic effects and their applications in
intensity modulation and phase modulation of laser beams, lasers, and optical
detection.
ECE4184 • Fiber Optics Laboratory — Experimental analysis of optical fiber communication and sensing devices and systems including fiber construction and its properties. Optical sources and detectors, and system design. ECE5154 • Optical Waveguides: Theory and Applications — Modal analysis of planar and cylindrical dielectric waveguides; weakly guiding fibers and LP modes; graded index fibers; ray analysis of optical waveguides; radiation and leaky modes; coupled-mode theory and applications; special fibers; nonlinear effects. ECE5614 • Fiber Optic Communication — Advanced fiber optic communications technology (including laser and optical amplifier dynamics, tunable optical filters, and non-linear phenomena), and applications to high-speed long-distance systems, local area networks and television distribution. Interrelationships between the technology, architecture, and application of fiber optic communication systems. ECE4134 • Fiber Optics and Applications Theory of optical fiber waveguide propagation and design applications in communication and sensing systems. ECE4144 • Introduction to Optical Information Processing — Modern wave optics. The application of Fourier transforms to image analysis, optical spatial filtering, and image processing. ECE3254 Industrial Electronics Application of basic electronic components in circuits. |
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