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Optical Circuits and Fibres - PHTN4661
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Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
 
 
School:  School of Electrical Eng and Telecommunications
 
 
Course Outline: http://www.ee.unsw.edu.au/
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 4
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prereq: ELEC3115
 
 
Fee Band: 2 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description

Types and applications of optical fibers; ray analysis of multimode fibres; characteristics of single-mode fibres including experiments; losses and dispersion in fibres; fibre fabrication; cabling and handling fibres.
Waveguiding in integrated optics & fibres; fabrication processes, optical substrates; modelling methods, manufacturing constraints on design; Photonic devices: Operating principles & applications of waveguuide-based devices, selected from the following list: tapers, couplers, polarisers, Bragg gratings, filters, interferometers, fibre lasers & amplifiers; Operation \& application of LEDs, lasers, & detectors.

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