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Appendix: Personnel & Enrollment
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PHYS
414
Photonics
3 cr
Prerequisites: PHYS 214 or consent of instructor. Offered in fall.
Light sources and transmitters, receivers, laser diodes, LEDs and photodiodes. Electromagnetic mode theory for optical propagation. Optical fiber measurements: fiber materials, multimode fibers, single-mode fibers. Fabrication, cabling, connectors and couplers. Optical amplifiers, Erbium-Doped fiber amplifiers. Modulation of light, multiplexing and de-multiplexing, fiber networking.