Happy New Year

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Happy New Year

• Welcome to
• ECE 80

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ECE 80 Photonics of Everyday Life

• Photonics is technology based on photons (hn)
• Electronics is technology based on electrons (e-)

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• ECE 80 Photonics of Everyday Life Winter 2009
• Instructor Sing Lee, Prof. ECE, EBU1 Rm 3409,
  Tel [phone]
• email lee_at_ece.ucsd.edu
• Topics of discussion include
• Difference between ordinary light and laser light
• Different kinds of lasers (solid, liquid and gas
  lasers)
• Photography vs. holography
• How digital camera works
• Fiber transmission vs. electrical copper
  transmission for telecom
• LCDs, plasma flat panel displays for TVs and
  computers
• CDs and DVDs for information storage
• Laser printers vs. ink jet printers
• Blood biophotonics (or Lasik)

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• ECE 80 Photonics of Everyday Life Winter 2009
• No text book
• Lecture notes will be provided on ECE course web
  site, http//ece-classweb.ucsd.edu16080/ecewebs/i
  ndex.php
• Descriptive reading materials can be found from
  http//www.howstuffworks.com/
• Lectures in class will provide enhanced technical
  contents (including scientific and engineering
  equations or formulas).
• Lecture topics
• How light works
• How lasers work
• 3. Photography - how cameras works
• Digital photography how digital cameras work
• How Holography works Mid-Term 1
• How fiber optics work

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• How LCDs work
• How plasma displays work
• Mid-Term 2
• 7. How CDs work
• How DVDs work
• 8. Biophotonics (or How LASIK works)
• Final Exam
• 2 Mid-term Exams covering topics 1-3 and 4-5 50
• 1 Final Exam covering topics 1-8 50
• Lab Tour (by ECE Photonics lab engineer Peter
  Ilinykh,
• EBU1 Room B706, pilinykh_at_ece.ucsd.edu)
• TA Stephen J. Olivas ltsjolivas_at_ucsd.edugt