Optoelectronics
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The official GTU curriculum for Optoelectronics (subject code 2161008) as prescribed for Electronics · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 28 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2161008)Unit 1 Light
- Nature of light
- Wave nature of light
- Light sources – blackbody radiation
- units of light
Unit 2 Review of Semiconductor Device Physics
- Energy bands in solids
- the E-k diagram
- Density of states
- Occupation probability
- Fermi level and quasi Fermi levels
- Schottky junction and Ohmic contacts
- Semiconductor optoelectronic materials
- Bandgap modification
- Heterostructures and Quantum Wells
Unit 3 Interaction of photons with electrons and holes in a semiconductor
- Rates of emission and absorption
- Condition for amplification by stimulated emission
- the laser amplifier
Unit 4 Semiconductor Photon Sources
- Display Devices Electroluminescence
- The LED: Device structure
- materials and characteristics
- LED drive circuitry
- Plasma displays
- liquid crystals: properties, LCD, Numeric displays
Unit 5 Semiconductor Photon Sources
- LASER The Semiconductor Laser: Basic structure
- theory and device characteristics
- direct current modulation
- Quantum-well lasers
- DBR- and vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSEL)
- Laser diode arrays
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