NPTEL : NOC:Introduction to Photonics (Electrical Engineering)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Balaji Srinivasan


Lecture 1 - Introduction to Photonics

Lecture 2 - Diffraction and Interference

Lecture 3 - Tutorial on Ray Optics and Wave Optics

Lecture 4 - Lab Demonstration : Diffractions and Interference

Lecture 5 - Interferometers

Lecture 6 - Coherence

Lecture 7 - Spatial and Temporal Coherence

Lecture 8 - Tutorial on Wave Optics

Lecture 9 - Lab Demonstration: Michelson Interferometer

Lecture 10 - Electromagnetic Optics

Lecture 11 - Fiber Optics

Lecture 12 - Photon Properties

Lecture 13 - Lab Demonstration: Fiber modes, NA and MFD

Lecture 14 - Photon Optics

Lecture 15 - Tutorial on Photon optics

Lecture 16 - Photon interaction - 1

Lecture 17 - Photon interaction - 2

Lecture 18 - Lab Demonstration: Interaction of light with matter

Lecture 19 - Optical Amplification

Lecture 20 - Three Level systems

Lecture 21 - Four Level Systems

Lecture 22 - EDFA Introduction

Lecture 23 - EDFA Tutorial

Lecture 24 - Lasers Part - 1

Lecture 25 - Lab Demonstration: EDFA Characterization

Lecture 26 - Lasers part- 2

Lecture 27 - Lasers part- 3

Lecture 28 - Lasers part- 4

Lecture 29 - Lab Demonstration: Fiber Laser

Lecture 30 - Semiconductor light Source and detector - Band structure

Lecture 31 - Semiconductor light Source and detector - Light emission

Lecture 32 - Semiconductor light Source and detector LED Characteristics

Lecture 33 - Lab Demonstration: Semiconductor Sources

Lecture 34 - Semiconductor light Source and detector Laser Characteristics

Lecture 35 - Semiconductor Detectors - 1

Lecture 36 - Semiconductor Detectors - 2

Lecture 37 - Semiconductor Detectors - 3

Lecture 38 - Lab Demonstration: Semiconductor Detectors

Lecture 39 - Semiconductor Detectors - 4

Lecture 40 - Light manipulation-Mallus' Law

Lecture 41 - Light manipulation-Birefringence

Lecture 42 - Light manipulation-Faraday Rotation

Lecture 43 - Lab Demonstration: Manipulation of Light Intensity and Polarization

Lecture 44 - Non-linear optics-Pockels effect

Lecture 45 - Non-linear optics-Kerr Effect

Lecture 46 - Lab Demonstration: Manipulation of Light Electro Optic Modulator (EOM)

Lecture 47 - Non-linear optics-stimulated Brillouin scattering

Lecture 48 - Non-linear optics-stimulated Raman scattering