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Numbering System at Ohio State EE 716 Optics with Laser Light |
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Course numbering system: In the Department of Electrical Engineering, the optics area is trans- disciplinary across several technical areas. Most, but not all, optics-related courses will have the middle digit of the course number as "1" (e.g. 716) , representing electromagnetics, or "3" (e.g. 731)representing Solid State and Physical Electronics. At Ohio State, courses beginning with "6" and "7" are open to both graduates and undergraduates, while course beginning with "8" or "9" are open only to graduate students. OSU is on the quarter system. Top
Even/Odd courses : Some courses run only every other year. "Even autumn" would mean that course runs during autumn of an even-numbered year, e.g. 2004, 2006. The very next quarter would be an odd winter, e.g. winter 2005, 2007.Top
| EE 716 | Optics with Laser Light | Anderson | 3 credits | even Autumn |
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Theoretical description of plane, spherical waves; holography; diffraction; optical Fourier transforms; Gaussian beams; optical spatial scattering; ray matrix optics; resonant cavities; introduction to fiber optics; Prerequisites: EE312 (UG electromagnetics, waveguides, diffraction), EE352 (UG linear systems, Fourier transforms, transfer function methods) or equivalent, or grad standing in physics, chemistry, or engineering. Top |
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| EE 731 | Fiber Optics | Anderson Valco |
3 credits | Autumn |
| Waveguiding in optical fibers, fiber losses, optical sources (LEDs and lasers), numerical aperture, coupling, detectors and receivers, noise sources, optical link analysis. Includes brief introduction to fiber sensors. Prerequisites: EE311 (UG static electromagnetics), EE321 (UG circuits) or equivalents, or grad standing in engineering, chemistry, or physics.Top | ||||
| EE 732 | Quantum Electron Devices: Lasers | Anderson | 3 credits | odd Autumn |
| Semiconductor lasers: heterostructures, quantum wells, stimulated emission, resonant cavities, gain. Prerequisites: EE 432 (UG semiconductor theory), EE 312 (UG dynamic electromagnetics), or grad standing in engineering, chemistry, or physics.Top | ||||
| EE 737 | Photonics Laboratory | 4 credits | odd Winters | |
| Lab includes experiments in fiber optic communications,
optical sensing, solar cells, acousto-optics, quantum well detectors,
laser diode physics, and liquid crystals. Students do some subset
of these experiments. In the process, you'll learn to use optics-related
equipment including spectrometers,lock-in amplifiers, infrared viewers,
CCD cameras and laser beam diagnostic machines. The Optical Sensing experiment is a design project. You can design (and build) any kind of optical sensor you want! (Temperature, pressure, roommate detector...) In Liquid Crystals, you can make your own liquid crystal light shutter! In Acousto- Optics, you build a scanner and and optical switch! In Quantum Well Detectors, you will believe in excitons and all that stuff we told you in quantum mechanics! (oops, this experiment hasn't been running lately) In Solar Cells, you'll compare the efficiencies of a variety of solar cell designs and materials! In Fiber Optic Communication, you'll learn to cleave and couple fibers, and look at bit-error-rate as a function of splice loss (you may personally mess up the splice!). In Lasers Diode Physics, you'll actually see the difference (in a variety of convincing ways) the differences between spontaneous and stimulated emission, and you'll also get to fool around with the laser cavity to look for mode hopping! In Holography, you'll make holograms! Need we say more? (Not active yet) In Optical Spatial Filtering you'll perform some optical image processing! Get a feel for some ideas in optical computing. (not active yet) There is an ancillary lecture covering additional useful practical optics topics, such as optical laboratory components, detectors, flat panel displays, and particularly laser safety. Prerequisites: EE432 (UG semiconductor theory) and EE 312 (UG dynamic electromagnetics) or grad standing in engineering. Top |
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| EE 833 | Optical Effects in Materials and Devices | Anderson | 3 credits | even Autumn |
| Topics include Pockels effect, electro-optic effect, acousto-optic effect, liquid crystal birefringence effect for various states, multiple quantum-well optical switches, magneto-optic effect, Kerr rotation, optical storage materials (laser disks). No prerequisites, but grad standing required.Top | ||||
| EE 917 | Advanced Topics in Optics | Collins | 3 credits | spontaneously |
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This course is offered whenever the mood seizes Prof. Collins, and it does happen from time to time! Contact him for next projected offering. Topics: Fiber and integrated optics and their applications, optical transfer functions, aberrations, optical thick holograms, numerical optical computing, and liquid crystals. Prerequisite: EE716 or permission of instructor. Top |
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| Other courses with optics-related content | ||||
| EE706 | Medical Imaging | Clymer | 3 credits | Spring |
| History, brief comparison of major modalities of medical imaging; projection x-ray: sources, attenuation, detectors, resolution, noise, dose; tomography: motion blurring tomography, CAT scan; nuclear medicine: imaging structure, resolution, noise, 3-D imaging, positron emission tomography, ultrasound: basic imaging modes, diffraction considerations, array systems, electronic deflection and focussing; magnetic resonance: physics, Bloch equation, imaging modes, selective excitation. Prerequisites: EE550 or permission of instructor. A good understanding of Fourier transforms is required. Top | ||||
| EE 713 | Elements of Radio Wave Propagation | Johnson | 3 credits | even Spring |
| Practical calculations and procedures for predicting refraction and reflection by a plane or spherical earth; tropospheric, ionosphereic, and scatter propagation. Prerequisites: EE513 (electromagnetics, waveguides, diffraction) or equivalent. This course is abouyt radio waves but the principle and equations are the same for optics- just the numbers are different. :-) Top | ||||
| EE730 | Fundamentals of Semiconductors for Microelectronics and Optoelectronics | Ringel | 3 credits | Autumn |
| Background for further studies in electronic and optical semiconductor devices. Crystal structure, electronic band theory, optical properties of semiconductors, electron transport, compound semiconductors and quantum wells, applications to electronic and optoelectronic devices. Prerequisites: EE 432 or permission. Top | ||||
| EE832 | High-speed Semiconductor Devices | Roblin | 3 credits | even Spring |
| Principles underlying the operation and application of high-speed solid state active devices, electron transport in high fields, Gunn effect, superlattices, heterostructures, and modulation doped devices. Many of these structures are used in optoelectronic devices. Prerequisites: EE730. Top | ||||
| EE 863 | Machine Vision | Boyer | 3 credits | Winter |
| See Prof. Boyer to verify scheduling. Computer vision systems, image models, edge detection, feature extraction, segmentatic shape representation, morphology, structural descriptions, object modeling, matching, knowledge bases, semantic knowledge, architectures, and depth perception. Prerequisites: EE650 and EE700. Top | ||||
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