Course of Optoelectronics Information about course of Optoelectronics at Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad.

Study programme: Power, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering / Microcomputer Electronics

Course code: 06 - EM414

ECTS: 6

Year: 4 (bachelor)

Semester: winter

Educational goal

Acquiring basic knowledge in the field of optoelectronics, optoelectronic components, lasers (gas, solid, liquid, diode and other), optical fibers, optoelectronic sensors, practical work on the diagnosis of optic fibers.

Course content

Propagation of plane waves. Basic optical properties of materials. The spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. Optical coherence and polarization. Optical sources. Fundamentals of lasers. Detectors. Noise in optoelectronics. Light emitting diodes (LED). Laser diodes. Gas lasers. Solid based lasers. Liquid lasers. Special types of lasers. Optical resonators. Propagation of light through optical fibers. Optical fiber cables and connectors. Sensors based on optical fibers. The application of optoelectronic components in communications and computers. CCD elements. Holography. Display: plasma, LC, FE, TFT. New developments in optoelectronics: quantum well lasers, integrated circuits, the recent application of the light receivers: new application of light detectors, optocouplers. Practical work on the diagnosis of optic cables.

Educational outcomes

• Ability to design systems with LED and laser diodes and photo detectors
• Ability to design physical optoelectronic communication systems
• Ability to design systems with displays
• Ability to design systems with optoelectronic sensors
• Ability to work with the most contemporary optoelectronic systems
• Ability to work on the diagnostic of optical cables with OTDR instrument

Lecturers

• Professor: Jovan Bajić, PhD
• Assistants: MSc Marko Vasiljević-Toskić, MSc Nikola Laković

Literature

1. Milatović D., "Optoelektronika", Svjetlost, Sarajevo, 1987.
2. Jones K. A., "Introduction to Optical Electronics", John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1987.
3. Kressel H., "Semiconductor Devices for Optical Communication", Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1987.
4. Kasap S. O., "Optoelectronics and Photonics: Principles and Practices", Prentice Hall, 2001.
5. Saleh B. E. A., "Fundamentals of Photonics", Wiley, 2007.