Optical Sensors

Course guarantor:

Jiří Homola

Lecturer:

Jiří Homola

Tutor:

Jiří Homola

Supervisor:

Department of Laser Physics and Photonics

Synopsis:

Principles, main configurations, typical implementations and applications of optical sensors.

Requirements:

Basic knowledge of wave optics.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Introduction to optical sensors (definitions and classification of sensors, main characteristics of optical sensors).

2. Review of optical phenomena and technologies used in optical sensors (optical waves, material properties, optical waveguides, etc.).

3. Sensors based on spectroscopy of modes of optical waveguides (grating coupler sensor, resonant mirror sensor, surface plasmon resonance sensor) and their applications.

4. Interferometric sensors (sensors based on Michelson, Mach-Zehnder, Sagnac, Young and Fabry-Perot interferometers) and their applications.

5. Spectroscopic sensors (sensors based on absorption spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy, and Raman scattering spectroscopy) and their applications.

6. Optical sensors for distributed and multi-point measurements (fiber-optic sensors, sensors using Bragg gratings, optical sensor networks, multiplexing of optical sensors, fier-optic distributed sensors) and their applications.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Study Objective:

Knowledge:

basic knowledge and review of physical principles, functioning, and constrution of main types of optical sensors and their applications.

Skills:

orientation in physical principles, functioning, and constrution of main types of optical sensors and their applications.

Study materials:

Key references:

[1] F. S. Ligler (editor), Optical Biosensors: Present and Future, Elsevier, 2002.

Recommended references:

[2] G. Boisde, A. Harmer, Chemical and Biochemical Sensing with Optical Fibers and Waveguides, Boston: Artech House, 1996.

[3] B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, John Wiley & Sons, 1991.

Note:

Time-table for winter semester 2024/2025:

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Time-table for summer semester 2024/2025:

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The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Fyzikální elektronika - Fotonika (elective course)