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92305 Optoelectronics
Danish title: Optoelektronik
Language: English Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: English

No credit points with: D4252
Prerequisite: 92061
Recommended semester: 4th or 5th semester
Examination: Written exam (13-scale)
Contact person: Erik Sjøntoft, Building 451, Tel. +45 4525 5256, email es@iae.dtu.dk

Department: Department of Applied Electronics
Aim: The objective of the course is to enable the student to:
- understand and apply optical devices
- perform elementary optical measurements
- implement optoelectronic components in design and development
Contents: Geometrical optics: Optical imaging, lenses and mirrors, paraxial ray
matrices, abrerations optical invarinats and energy relations,
optical systemes and components.
Wave optics: Electromagnetic waves, Gaussian beams, interference and
interferometry, diffraction gratings, multiple film layers. Polarised
light and birefringence.
Photon optics: The principle of complementarity, interaction between
wave and matter.
Fiber optics: Fiberoptical principles and sensors.
Lightsources: Lasers (gas and diode lasers), LED's, conventional
sources.
Detectors: Thermal detectors ( thermoelectric, bolometers,
pyrometers). Photon detectors (photon emitters, photomultiplicator
tubes, photocinductors, photodiodes). Noise considerations.