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B.S. OPTOELECTRONICS [PHYS-683] SYLLABUS
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Excitation and emission processes: radioactive
and non-radioactive recombination.
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Photovoltaics: solar radiation and air mass, photovoltaic
effect and solar cells, I-V characteristics, materials, solar cell
classifications, arrays and modules, solar batteries, applications.
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Lasers: necessary requirements for laser production,
classes of lasers, doped insulator lasers, gas lasers, liquid lasers,
semiconductor lasers, semiconductor laser structures, homojunction
lasers, heterojunction lasers, quantum well lasers.
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Photodiodes: principle of optical detection, quantum
efficiency and responsitivity, materials, photodetectors, PN, PIN,
schottky and avalanche photodiodes, phototransistor.
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Fiber Optics: optical fiber and cables, advantages
of optical fibers, light guiding and signal distortion, fiber types
and modes, materials, fabrication of optical fibers, connectors and
splices, couplers, optical fiber communication system.
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Optoelectronic Integration: hybrid and monolithic
integration, applications of optoelectronic integrated circuits..
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Recommended Text:
1- J. Wilson & J.F.B Hawks, “Optoelectronics”,
Prentice Hall London (1989).
2- Ansar Ahmed Qidwai, “Optoelectronics”, B.C.C. and Press,
University of Karachi (2004).
3- Pallab Bahttacharya, “Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices”,
Prentice Hall India (2004).
4- Bahaa E.A. Salch & Matvin Carl Telch, “Fundamental of
Photonics”, John Wiley Sons. N.Y. (1991).
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