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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Optical Sensors

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 480-4022/02
Abbreviation OS
Course title Optical Sensors
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Physics
Course coordinator doc. RNDr. Dalibor Ciprian, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Fundamental principles used for design of optical sensors
2. Basic components of optical sensors - light sources, detectors and waveguide components
3. Optical sensors of diplacement, position, velocity and angular velocity
4. Optical sensors of temperature, press and vibration
5. Optical sensors of electric and magnetic quantities
6. Optical sensors of chemical and biological quantities
7. Fundamental features of optical fiber sensors
8. Single-mode and multimode optical fiber sensors
9. Sensing applications if fiber optic gratings
10. Fiber optic spectrometers
11. Fiber optic interferometers application in sensing problems
12. Sensor based on specialty optical fibers

E-learning

No e-learinig available.

Literature

HAMEED, F. O., OBAYA, S.: Computational Photonic Sensors, Springer, 2019, ISBN 978-3319765556 
DUTTA, A, DEKA, B., SAHU, P.: Planar Waveguide Optical Sensors: From Theory to Applications, Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3319351391 
HAUS, J.: Optical Sensors: Basics and Applications, Wiley-VCH, 2010, ISBN 978-3527408603

Advised literature

CULSHAW, B., Introducing Photonics, 1st ed., 2020, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1316609415 

BUCK, J. A.: Fundamentals of Optical Fibers, Wiley-Interscience, 2004, ISBN 978-0471221913 

GRATTAN, L. S., MEGGITT, B. T.: Optical Fiber Sensor Technology: Advanced Applications - Bragg Gratings and Distributed Sensors, Springer, 2010, ISBN 978-1441949998