After completing this course, students will have the knowledge and experimental skills to design and apply a photonic measurement system to monitor an environment, a process, a life form, a device, or a system. Class sessions will present the principles and physics of using light to determine physical properties or state, the characteristics of photonic sources and detectors, and common photonic instruments. Laboratories will provide practical training in optical techniques, devices, and instruments. Four semester hours credit.
Course Goals:
To satisfy the BSEE design requirement, students must simultaneously enroll in ELEC 493, and initiate a photonics-related, team-based capstone design project that will be completed in ELEC 494 in Spring semester. Students pursuing other degrees, or who are satisfying their design requirement in another way, may take this course without ELEC 493/4, and may substitute an individual research or design project for the capstone team project.
Prerequisites: please see the syllabus for a list of concepts you should be familiar with.
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Schedule: Tuesday-Thursday 10:50-12:05; Martel 104; Laboratory by arrangement.
Text: Photodetection and Measurement, Mark Johnson, McGraw-Hill 2003, ISBN 0-07-140944-0; optional: Photonics Essentials, T. P. Pearsall, McGraw-Hill, 2003, ISBN 0-07-140875-4 (on reserve in Fondren).
Any student with a disability requiring accommodations in this course is encouraged to contact me during the first week of class. In addition, such students should contact Disabled Student Services in the Ley Student Center.
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