Photonic Engineering
Photonics comprises the deployment of visible and near infra-red electromagnetic waves to advantage in telecommunications, data storage and optical signal processing. The advantages of lightwave include ultrafast speed and parallel processing.
General information:
- Photonic Engineering module is available in first semester 2011/2012 academic year.
- Host Institution: University College Dublin
- Delivery mode: This course is available only to Dublin located students as there are on-site lectures at UCD:
Monday: 15:00-16:50 (weeks 3, 5, 7, 11)
Tuesday: 09:00-09:50 (Sem1: All Weeks)
Wednesday: 14:00-14:50 (Sem1: All Weeks)
Thursday: 09:00-09:50 (Sem1: All Weeks)
Course content:
There will be selections from the following topics. A: Optoelectronics Section: Electromagnetic WKB theory for lightwave modes in standard optical fibre types. Design principles and equations of multimode, single-mode, dispersion-shifted and flattened fibre. Advanced semiconductor optical behaviour. Laser dynamics. DFB, DBR and quantum-well lasers and phased arrays. Nano-scale structures, low-dimensional devices.PIN, APD photodetectors, system limits, signal and noise examples. Binary photo-detection, quantum limit, coherent receivers. Optical sensors: laser- type, fibre-type, e.g. gyroscope. Integrated optoelectronic circuits: wave-guide theory, optical signal processing. B: Optical Engineering Section: Linear systems transforms, System Invariants. Electromagnetic Theory of diffraction, Fraunhofer/Fresnel propagation regimes, gratings. Reflection and Refraction, geometric/wave optics, dispersion. Imaging systems, aberrations, resolution. Applications: Microscopes, confocal CD laser head read/write. Holography (optical phase matched filters) Geometries (write/read), models. Applications: Multiplexing elements, interconnects, 3D hologram data storage. Optical Signal Processing, coherent/incoherent complex spatial filters, Joint transform correlators. (Fractional) Fourier, Fresnel, transfer matrices, Wigner Distribution function.
Photonic Engineering - Module Descriptor will be available soon
Lecturer: Prof. John Sheridan
School of Electrical, Electronic & Mechanical Engineering
University College Dublin
John T. Sheridan was born in Castlebar, Co. Mayo, Ireland, where he attended St Patricks National School and St Geralds College. He received his Bachelors degree (H1) in Electronic Engineering, from University College Galway (NUIG) in 1985, and his Masters degree in the Science of Electrical Engineering, from Georgia Tech, in 1986. While at GT he worked as a Research Assistant of Prof. William T. Rhodes. In 1987 he matriculated as a member of Jesus College Oxford and in 1991 he was awarded his doctorate by Oxford University for work carried out under the supervision of Prof. Laszlo Solymar and Prof. Colin J. R. Sheppard in the Department of Engineering Science.
This was followed by postdoctoral research fellowships, supported first (1991) by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and later (1992) by a European Community Bursary. Both were held at the Lehrstuhl fur Angewandte Optik in Erlangen-Nürnberg University, under the leadership of Prof. Dr A. W. Lohmann. In 1994 he took up a position as a visiting scientist at the European Commission Joint Research Centre, in Italy. In 1997 he was appointed to the School of Physics, Dublin Institute of Technology as a permanent lecturer.
He joined the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University College Dublin (UCD), in 2000 as a College Lecturer. In 2005 he became a Senior Lecturer, and in 2007 Professor of Optical Engineering within the UCD School of Electrical, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering. He currently acts as Deputy Director of the UCD Communications and Optoelectronic Research Centre and also of the SFI Strategic Research Cluster in Solar Energy Conversion.
He has authored ~250 papers, has a h-index ~ 22 (ISI Web of Science), regularly serves on national and international conference committees and review boards, and is a member of the editorial boards of several international journals.
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