Course Description: Covers an introduction to optical electronics including lasers, fiber optics, optical detectors; and a brief introduction to nonlinear optics.

Course Objectives: To provide students with a background on the devices used in optical communications and lasers.

Course Outline by Topical Areas:

EM theory, including anisotropic materials.

Ray matrix and optical waveguides.

Gaussian beams.

Optical resonators.

Interaction of light and atoms.

Laser theory and examples.

Second harmonic generation and parametric oscillators.

Electro-optical modulators.

Noise in optical detectors.

Semiconductor lasers.

Course Requirements:

Computer Languages and Facilities: None

Degree Applicability:

CE[AA]	CH[NA]	CS[AA]	EE[BDE]	EM[E]	ESM[NA]	MAT[E]
MBA[NA]	ME[E]	MES[BE]	MSE[E]	SE[NA]	SY[AA]

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NTU Semester Credit Hours: 3
Number of Lecture Hours: 50 minute lectures
Days Class Meets on Campus: Monday/Wednesday/Friday

Contributing Scholar:
Frank Barnes
Electrical Engineering Department
University of Colorado at Boulder
Campus Box 425
Boulder, CO   80309
Phone: 303-492-8225

Fax: 303-492-2758
barnes@boulder.colorado.edu

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Academic/Administrative Contact:  
Robin McClanahan
Phone: 303-492-0212
Fax: 303-492-5987
robin.mcclanahan@colorado.edu


Prerequisites: Electromagnetic Waves and Transmission) or some field theory.

Textbooks: (Order Materials)

1.	Optical Electronics in Modern Communications, Yariv, Oxford, 5th edition, 1997, ISBN 0195106261.