Syllabus
|
Course Code: EI-PE-404 Course Name: Program Elective- V - (iv) Optical Instrumentation |
||
| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Optical fiber and Transmission characteristics: Principles of light propagation through a fibre - Different types of fibres and their properties, fibre characteristics – manufacturing of optical fiber. Attenuation, material absorption losses, scattering losses, nonlinear and linear scattering, fiber bend loss, dispersion, intermodal dispersion, dispersion modified single mode fiber, dispersion flattened fibers, polarization, nonlinear phenomena.Connectors and splicers –Fibre termination. | |
| 2 | Optical sources and detectors, Optical fiber sensors (10 hrs) Optical sources – Optical detectors.Optical emission from semiconductor, semiconductor LASER, non-semiconductor LASER, LED as an optical source, optical detector principles, absorption, quantum efficiency, responsively, photo diodes, modulation. Introduction to fiber optics sensors, sensors based on intensity modulation, Fibre optic instrumentation system – Different types of modulators – Interferometric method of measurement of length – Moire fringes – Measurement of pressure, temperature, current, voltage, liquid level and strain application of optical fiber for displacement, strain, stress and pressure measurement. Active multimode FO sensors, micro-bend optical fiber sensors, current sensors, phase modulated, polarization modulated optical fiber sensors, fiber optic gyroscope. | |
| 3 | Industrial and Medical Applications of Lasers: Introduction, application of laser in biomedical instrumentation, Medical applications of lasers, laser and tissue interactive – Laser instruments for surgery, removal of tumours of vocal cards, brain surgery, plastic surgery, gynaecology and oncology. Laser interferometry, performance parameters, laser telemeters, measurement of distance, LIDAR, Laser for measurement of distance, length, velocity, acceleration, current, voltage and Atmospheric effect – Material processing – Laser heating, welding, melting and trimming of material – Removal and vaporization. Holography – Basic principle - Methods – Holographic interferometry and application, Holography for non-destructive testing – Holographic components measurement of strain, stress, bending moments and vibrations using hologram. | |
| 4 | Optical amplification and integrated optics: Optical amplifiers, integrated optics integrated optical devices: beam splitters, directional couplers, modulators, switches, optoelectronics integration and differentiation, analog arithmetic operations, digital optics. | |
