PHYS514 / EE514

Optoelectronics Lab.

Fall 2002

 

 

Instructor:   Prof.  Mohamed A. Osman

                             osman@eecs.wsu.edu,  335-2301,  335-6602

 

Teaching Assistants:

                   Christopher Dudley,  mhd@wsu.edu

                   Weiya Zhang,  weiya_zhang@wsu.edu

 

Meets :       EME214, times by arrangement.

 

 

Prereq:       EE504 Modern optics or equivalent coursework in optics

 

 

Description:        

PHYS514/EE514 is a hands-on” optics lab course designed to give students practical experience working with optical and optoelectronic equipment. No previous laboratory experience is required, but students need an understanding of basic optical principles such as diffraction, lenses, and propagation in fibers.

 

Grading:      Labs are graded based on being there and doing them and also on “Lab reports”.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Syllabus for PHYS514 / EE514

 Fall 2002

 

 

Week1

No Lab

 

Week2

No Lab

 

Week3

Lab1

Geometrical Optics:

 

 

        a) Beam alignment, expansion/spatial Filtering and Collimation

 

 

        b) Law of Reflection

 

 

        c)  Index of refraction

 

 

        d) Thin Lenses and Depth of Focus / Field

Week4

Lab2

Diffraction

Week5

Lab3

Michelson Interferometer

Week6

Lab4

Fiber Handling and Numerical Aperture Measurement

Week7

Lab5

Fiber Attenuation

Week8

Lab6

Single Mode Fiber Coupling and Output Profile

Week9

Lab7

Fiber Modes and Beat Length of Birefringent Fiber

Week10

Lab8

Coupling Fibers to Semiconductor Sources

Week11

Lab9

Alignment Loss, connectors, and Splices

Week12

Lab10

Characterization of Light Emitting Diodes

Week13

Lab 11

Characterization of laser diodes.

Week14

No Lab

Thanksgiving  Week

Week15

No Lab

Make up and reports due.