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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Science |
| Grao en Nanociencia e Nanotecnoloxía |
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| Photonics and Optoelectronics |
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| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Photonics and Optoelectronics | Code | 610G04033 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Fourth | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| I.- Introduction to Optical Fundamentals and Optical Radiation Sources | 1.1. Light ray and refractive index. Snell's law 1.2. Optical path: Fermat's principle. 1.3. Laws of geometrical optics. 1.4. Wave surface 1.5. Propagation of light in dielectric and conductive media 1.6. Laws of reflection and refraction 1.7. Fresnel formulae |
| II.- Electromagnetic wave generation, translation and interaction | 2.1. Maxwell's equations 2.2. Vacuum Wave Equations 2.3. Plane and spherical waves 2.4. Monochromatic waves 2.5. The complex wave representation 2.6. Spectral decomposition of the radiation 2.7. Huygens' principle 2.8. Wave energy |
| III.- Optoelectronic devices and detectors | 3.1. luminescent diodes and lasers 3.2. photoresistors, photodiodes, phototransistors, capacitive photosensors and digital image sensors 3.3. Photomultipliers 3.4. Optoelectronic Sensor Applications |
| IV.- Optical Communications and Light Modulation | 4.1. Single-mode and multimode optical fibres 4.2. Michelson interferometer 4.3. Fabry-Perot interferometer 4.4. Sagnac interferometer 4.5. integrated optics |
| V.- Nanophotonics and biophotonics | 5.1. Far field, near field, diffraction limit and evanescent waves 5.2. Mie theory 5.3. Plasmonic and resonant dielectric nanoparticles 5.4. Non-linear nanophotonics 5.5. Quantum dots and nanoparticles. Single photon emission 5.6. Biosensors |
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