ECE 598PD Class Calendar

 

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MLK DAY

 

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!!!!!!Lecture Locations

*******Password*******

!!!!!!MediaSpace Location

Introduction to Class

Review of Dielectric Waveguides

Notes

Reading

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Modes of Optical Fiber

Mode Families

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Identities Involving Bessel Functions

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Modes of Optical Fiber

Linking Modes

LP vs TE/TM/HE/EH Modes

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LP Mode Cutoffs

Mathematica Code

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Angular Momentum

Orbital, Spin, Modes

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February 2022
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LP Modes and Optical Fiber Propagation

Multimode and Few Mode Fibers, Chirp, Phase Matching, Dispersion

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Devices

Mode Coupling, Non-Orthogonality, Higher Order Modes and Orbital Angular Momentum

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Lab Lecture 1

Lecture will be in the usual place, then we will move upstairs to 5074 ECEB.

Fiber Modes/Bending Loss

Mini Project Guidelines

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Optical Fiber Materials: SiO2

Glass Characteristics and Light Matter Interactions, Temperature, Strain

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Optical Fiber Materials

Glass Basics, Glass Design, Less Common Glasses

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Specialty Optical Fibers

Geometries, Fiber Fab, Semiconductor and Crystalline Core Fibers, Plastic Fibers, Specialty Fibers

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Lab Lecture 2

Fiber Propagation

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Active Fibers

Rare Earth Doping, Emission and Absorption Spectroscopy, Effect of Composition

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Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers

Continuous Wave at Low to Moderate Power

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High Power Systems

Practical Aspects of Power Scaling

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Lab Lecture 3, Active Fibers

Pulsed Fiber Lasers

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Light Scattering

Rayleigh, Raman, Brillouin, Spontaneous Scattering

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***Final Project Guidelines***

 

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SPRING BREAK

 

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SPRING BREAK

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Light Scattering

Stimulated Scattering

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Lab Lecture 4

Stimulated Scattering: Raman and Rayleigh

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Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Nonlinear Refractive Index, Pulse Propagation, SPM and GVD

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Nonlinear Fiber Optics

Nonlinear Processes, XPM, FWM

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Other Kerr Processes

Harnessing Nonlinear Processes

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Lab Lecture 5

Harnessing Nonlinear Processes

Microstructured Fibers

Photonic Bandgap, Crystal, and Holey Fibers

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Microstructured Fibers

Photonic Bandgap, Crystal, and Holey Fibers

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Fiber Sensors

Point Sensors, Chemical, Gas, Bio, etc. Sensors

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Fiber Sensors

Point Sensors, Environmental Sensors

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Lab Lecture 6

Fiber Sensors, Distributed Sensors

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Current Hot Research Topics In Fiber Photonics

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Access to Lecture 27 link. You may have to download the file on the other side of the link.

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Final Project Presentations I

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Final Project Presentations II

ROOM 5070 ECEB!!!

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