Part I: Basic Components and Concepts
-- define basic components and relate their performance with fiber sensor operation: light sources, modulators, optical fiber, connectors and splices, detectors, specialized fiber components, integrated optical components, etc.
-- demonstrate how component characteristics can be used to implement fiber optic sensors

Part II: Intensity Based, Grating Based and Fabry-Perot Interferometric Sensors
-- sensors based on microbending, evanescence effects
-- grating based fiber optic sensors
-- Fabry-Perot fiber sensors

Part III: Sagnac Interferometer, Rotation, Acoustic, and Strain Sensing
-- rotation sensing characteristics and the operation of the ring laser gyro and open and closed loop fiber optic gyros
-- error sources in the Sagnac interferometer based fiber optic rotation sensor and application to the optimization of acoustic strain sensitivity
-- Sagnac interferometers in industry

Part IV: Mach-Zhender and Michelson Interferometers and Multiplexing
-- Mach-Zhender and Michelson interferometers
-- electric and magnetic field sensing,
-- acoustic wave detection

Part V: Fiber Optic Smart Structures
-- fiber optic smart structures to support manufacturing, nondestructive evaluation, health monitoring and structural control
-- fiber optic sensors to support industrial process control and aircraft safety.
-- application in chemical, bio-medical applications

Part VI: Distributed Fiber Optic Sensors
-- temperature, strain, disturbance-locating, magnetic field
-- distribution methods

Part VII: Trends
-- the smaller the better?
-- integration with semiconductor?