Photonic Materials and Devices
This module introduces a range of topics on the advanced physics and technology of photonic materials, devices and applications, making it suitable for ICGEE students undertaking a PhD in Photonics.
General information:
- Photonic Materials and Devices module is available in second semester 2011/2012 academic year, starting from February 2012
- Host Institution: Dublin Institute of Technology, School of Electronic and Communications Engineering
- Delivery mode:
- for Dublin located students: on-site in DIT, 1.5 hours lectures per week, 1 hour average laboratory per week
- for students from other locations: Mixed mode via remote delivery: online lectures delivered through the ICGEE VLE (Virtual Learning Environment) combined with 12-hour block on-site laboratory/tutorial activities (2 day workshop on-site in DIT)
Course content:
- Modern optics: Ray optics, wave optics, electromagnetic optics, polarization and crystal optics, photonic guiding, electro-optics, nonlinear optics and modulators, acousto-optics, optical design, optical properties of thin films.
- Photonic materials: Semiconductor physics, polymers and liquid crystals, photonic crystal fibres, materials growth and fabrication.
- Optical instrumentation and sensors: optical metrology; interferometry, fundamental length metrology, transfer of the length standard, optical fibres sensors; gyroscopes, hydrophones, strain and temperature sensing, grating & distributed sensors, engineering optical diagnostics; vibrometry and velocimetry, speckle interferometry, displays.
Photonic Materials & Devices - Module Descriptor
Lecturer: Dr. Yuliya Semenova
Senior Researcher
School of Electronic and Communication Engineering
Dublin Institute of Technology
My research is focused on:
- Optical sensing
- The physics and applications of liquid crystals in photonics
- Engineering, medical and environmental applications of optical sensors with a specific interest in
- Microfibre and nanowire sensors for bio- and chemical sensing
- Liquid crystal - photonic crystal fibre sensors of electric and magnetic fields, temperature, pressure and other environmental parameters.
Below are some ongoing research projects:
- Smart Sensors for Engineering Structures (SSES), MATERA-ERAnet Project.
This project is in collaboration with Warsaw University of Technology and a Polish helicopter manufacturer, Aero_AT Ltd. The research is focused on the development of smart composite structures for the aviation industry based on a hybrid sensing approach in a composite in order to provide simultaneous in-situ distributed measurement of strain, temperature and vibration.
- Fibre Bragg Grating-Based Sensors in Polymer Optical Fibres for Biomedical Applications, India-Ireland Cooperative Science Programme 2011.
This project aims to develop new biomedical sensors based on polymer optical fibres. The fabrication of FBGs in plastic optical fibre is a key part of this project and opens up the possibility of developing new sensors systems for biomedical applications, for example sensors for artificial limbs and sensors embedded in clothing which can continually monitor stress to improve posture for those suffering from orthopaedic injuries.
List of Journal & Conference Publications
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