Room 9-101c

Photonics Lab

Lab Directors: Lloyd Ferguson

Courses Offered:

ECE 420, ECE436, EGR599A, EGR599B

Laboratory Size: 160 square feet

Average # of students per year: 100

Lab Function:

To allow students to supplement their undergraduate and graduate courses in fiber optics and lasers with meaningful laboratories to extend their practical hands-on experience with these new and important technologies.

Lab Status:

Our objective is to support the development of a new undergraduate & graduate laser (Electro-Optics) laboratory. By continuing to procure modern instrumentation such as monochrometer, low power lasers, pyroelectric radiometers and fiber optic systems, this equipment will allow creation of an electro-optics laboratory. This project would impact many students over a 5-year p eriod and will strengthen undergraduate & graduate education in the engineering and important fields of laser and fiber-optics.

Current Problems with the Laboratory:

The development of the lab is at an early stage. We are currently designing experiments and demonstrations, and starting to procure equipment.

Equipment Needs:

1. Optical table (Vibration Insulated)
2. Monochrometer
3. Pyroelectric radiometer
4. Low power HeNe laser
5. Laser beam expander
6. Fiber optic table w/accessories
7. Digital Optic sensor (computer controlled)
8. Fabry-Perot interferometer
9. Electro-optic modulator with driver
10. Spatial filters
11. Photodetectors
12. Reflectometer