Lecturer: Guido Giuliani   Giuseppe Martini  

Course name: Electro-optical instrumentation
Course code: 505021
Degree course: Electronic Engineering
Disciplinary field of science: ING-INF/01
L'insegnamento è caratterizzante per: Electronic Engineering
University credits: ECTS 6
Course website: n.d.

Specific course objectives

Understanding of Electro-Optical Instrumentation basics and laboratory and industrial applications

Course programme

1 Introduction

2 Alignment, Pointing and Sizing Instruments

• Devices for Alignment and Pointing
• Laser Level
• Diameter Sensor
• Particle Sizing Instrumentation

3 Laser Telemeters

• Classes
• Triangulation
• Time of Flight
• Pulsed and Sine-Wave Telemeters
• Precision and Calibration
• Developments of Telemeters
• The LIDAR

4 Laser Interferometry

• Measuring with the Interferometer
• Ultimate Limits
• Read-out Configurations of Interferometry
• Vibrometry
• Injection Interferometry
• Distance, Angle and Parameter Measurements
• White Light Interferometry
• Profilometry

5 Speckle-Pattern Instruments

• Speckle Properties
• Speckle in Single-Point Interferometers and Vibration and Displacement Measurements
• Phase-Error Correction
• ESPI

6 Laser Doppler Velocimetry

• Basic Configurations and Performance
• Alignment and Position Errors
• Electronic Processing of the Doppler Signal

7 Electro-Optical Gyroscopes

• The Sagnac Effect
• RLG and FOG Configurations
• Dithered and Ring Zeeman Laser Gyro
• Performances of RLGs
• The Fiber Optics Gyro
• FOG Technology - Resonant Gyro and I-Gyros
• Other Approaches: MEMS, piezo

8 Fiber Optic Sensors

• Outline
• Optical Strain Gage: A Case Study
• Intensity, Polarimetric, Interferometric Readouts – Examples
• Multiplexed and Distributed OFS

Course entry requirements

Course structure and teaching

Lectures (hours/year in lecture theatre): 46
Practical class (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0
Practicals / Workshops (hours/year in lecture theatre): 0

Suggested reading materials

Silvano Donati. Electro-Optical Instrumentation. PRENTICE HALL, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458, 2004, ISBN-13: 978-0132597548. www.phptr.com.

Testing and exams

final examination, written