- Introduction: Importance.
- Sources of optical radiation
-- Lasers: Fundamentals of laser action, active environment, population inversion, optical resonator.
-- Types of lasers: gas lasers, liquid lasers, chemical lasers, solid state lasers - semiconductor lasers, laser applications.
-- Electroluminescent (LED) diodes.
- Propagation of optical radiation
-- Planar dielectric waveguides
-- Fibre-optic waveguides: total internal reflection, attenuation, dispersion, measuring characteristics of optical fibers, materials of optical fibers and their production, optical cables.
- Optical Communications
-- Free-space communications.
-- Fibre-optic communication systems.
- Detectors of optical radiation
-- Characteristic parameters of the detectors.
-- Photoelectric detectors, semiconductor detectors - PIN diode, avalanche photodiode.
-- Noise of detectors.
- Sources of optical radiation
-- Lasers: Fundamentals of laser action, active environment, population inversion, optical resonator.
-- Types of lasers: gas lasers, liquid lasers, chemical lasers, solid state lasers - semiconductor lasers, laser applications.
-- Electroluminescent (LED) diodes.
- Propagation of optical radiation
-- Planar dielectric waveguides
-- Fibre-optic waveguides: total internal reflection, attenuation, dispersion, measuring characteristics of optical fibers, materials of optical fibers and their production, optical cables.
- Optical Communications
-- Free-space communications.
-- Fibre-optic communication systems.
- Detectors of optical radiation
-- Characteristic parameters of the detectors.
-- Photoelectric detectors, semiconductor detectors - PIN diode, avalanche photodiode.
-- Noise of detectors.