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Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers |
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Extent of teaching: | 3+0 |
| Department: | 14112 |
Language of teaching: | CS |
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Completion: | ZK |
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Credits: | 3 |
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Semester: | Z |
Anotation:
Introduction: optical fibres, passive components, pump lasers. Spectroscopy of rare earth elements. Erbium-doped fibre amplifier, rate equations, gain saturation. Complex theoretical model and optimization of the amplifier. Amplifier characterization (gain, noise figure). Erbium doped fibre laser, continuous wave and pulse regime. Fibre amplifiers and lasers doped with other rare earth ions, high-power fibre lasers utilizing cladding pumping, Raman fibre amplifiers. Implementation of fibre amplifiers in optical communication systems.
Study targets:
Knowledge:
principles of fiber amplifiers and lasers and methods of their optimization.
Skills:
applications of obtained knowledge mainly for industrial applications of high-power fiber lasers and implementation of fiber amplifiers in optical communication systems.
Course outlines:
| 1. | | Components of fiber amplifiers and lasers. |
| 2. | | Rare-earth doped fiber spectroscopy |
| 3. | - | 4. Erbium-doped fiber amplifier (EDFA) |
| 5. | | Continuous-wave fiber lasers and high-power cladding-pumped fiber lasers |
| 6. | | Fiber lasers with based on other rare-earth dopants, discussion of selected research topics |
| 7. | | Laboratory visit in ÚFE Suchdol: preparation of optical fibers and their bascic characterisation |
| 8. | - | 9. Pulsed fiber lasers |
| 10. | - | 11. Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) and their application in components for transparent optical networks |
| 12. | | Raman fiber amplifiers |
| 13. | | Parametric fiber amplifiers |
| 14. | | Laboratory visit in ÚFE Kobylisy: Laboratory of nonlinear fiber optics |
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Requirements:
Basic knowledge of laser physics, laser technology and fiber optics; basic programming knowledge
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Keywords:
fiber lasers, fiber amplifiers, optical fibers, optical fiber communications
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