The course of this semester will be focused on using some sorts of fiber sensors for bio-medical applications. With this in mind, the following content may be subject to change as we move along. The overall teaching is heuristic. You are asked to find out more by yourself or group learning.

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

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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?