Online Course – Certified Professional Internship in Active Optical Devices by Google

Internship – 3-part course series

The courses in this engagement are also offered for academic credit as ECEA 5605-5607, part of the Master of Science in Electrical Engineering degree at CU Boulder.

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Course Description

This specialization in Active Optical Devices is designed to help you fully understand active optical devices by clearly defining the underlying physical mechanisms, design principles, and device performance. You will explore and experiment with devices such as light-emitting diodes, lasers, nanophotonics, light detectors, and displays.

Learning outcomes in enrichment

• Analyze and design semiconductor light sources and surrounding optical systems.
• Analyze and design detector systems for LIDAR, microscopy, and cameras.
• Analyze and design optical device systems that can adapt to the given environment.
• Use lasers and optoelectronics in electronic systems through an understanding of the interaction between light and atoms, laser rate equations, and noise in light detection.

Project to learn through applied methods

You will engage in active analysis and design tasks that include weekly task sets. These sets challenge you to derive expressions and calculate values ​​based on the design principles discussed in the course material and the ongoing analyses you perform.