480-6012/01 – Fibre Optics and Interferometry (VOI)
| Gurantor department | Department of Physics | Credits | 10 |
| Subject guarantor | prof. RNDr. Petr Hlubina, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | prof. RNDr. Petr Hlubina, CSc. |
| Study level | postgraduate | Requirement | Choice-compulsory type B |
| Year | | Semester | winter + summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
| Year of introduction | 2018/2019 | Year of cancellation | |
| Intended for the faculties | HGF, FEI, USP | Intended for study types | Doctoral |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
Collect theoretical bases and experimental methods of fibre optics and interferometry
Describe, clarify and interpret up-to-date knowledge in this research field
Apply modern approaches in solving the practice problems
Teaching methods
Lectures
Individual consultations
Summary
The subject Fibre Optics and Interferometry belongs to the facultative
subjects of the doctoral study programme Applied Physics. Within this subject,
students will be systematically introduced to the theoretical fundamentals of
fibre optics and interferometry, and with their applications respectively.
Compulsory literature:
SNYDER, A.; LOVE, J. Optical Waveguide Theory. London: Chapman and Hall, 1983.
HARIHARAN, P. Optical Interferometry. New York: Academic Press, 1985.
BORN, M.; WOLF, E. Principles of Optics (Seventh Edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Halliday, D., Resnick, R., Walker, J.: Physics 4., Prague: Vutium, 2013.
Recommended literature:
1. GOODMAN, J. Statistical Optics. New York: J. Wiley & Sons, 1985.
2. MANDEL, L.; WOLF, E. Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
One written exam and running oral checks.
E-learning
Not available.
Other requirements
Systematic and independent work of a Ph.D. student is supposed.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Fundamentals of theory of waveguiding in optical fibres: wave theory of guiding in step-index optical fibres and in graded-index optical fibres. Geometrical model of light guiding in multimode optical fibres: ray model of light guiding in step-index optical fibres and in graded-index optical fibres. Dispersion in optical fibres: Material dispersion. Waveguiding and chromatic dispersion. Dispersion in step-index optical fibres and in graded-index optical fibres. Dispersion in multimode optical fibres; ray model. Single-mode optical fibres: Optical field. Dispersion. Specialty optical fibres: Birefringent fibres. Microstructured and photonic bandgap fibres. Measurement of parameters of optical fibres: Loss measurement. Bandwidth measurement. Material and intermodal dispersion measurment. Group delay dispersion measurement. Measurement of dispersion by a phase method. Interferometric methods of a dispersion measurement: tandem time- and spectral-domain interferometry. Refractive index and refractive index profile measurements. Beat length measurement. Optical reflectometry method. Optical interferometrie: Digital processing of interferograms. Processing in the spectral domain. Position and displacement measurement; translation. Deformation field measurement. Holographic interferometry. Spectral optical interferometry: distance, displacement, thickness, dispersion measurements. Fourier spectoscopy. Optical reflectometry: Spectral reflectometry: measurement of parameters of thin films.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction