This one-day hands-on training course aims to provide industrial partners, as well as students and
young researchers, a training about guiding devices, waveguides and fibres, and related fabrication
and characterisation technologies.
The course, after a short introduction about the principles of light propagation in the structures
object of the course, will focus on the following main topics:
- Ion-exchange as a technology for the fabrication of planar waveguides in glasses
- Coupling of light to guiding structures
- Characterization of slab and channel waveguide structures (optical constants, propagation and
coupling losses, near field, optical gain)
- Fabrication and characterization techniques of optical fibre gratings
- Physical parameters sensing techniques (Fibre bragg gratings)
- Biochemical parameters sensing techniques (Long period gratings + microfluidics
Target Audience
A short introduction to the general topic will be provided, so that attendees will be prepared to
understand the activities in which they will be involved. It is therefore desirable but not essential that
course attendees have a basic understanding of photonics.
The course is targeted to persons interested in gaining the capability of performing the main
characterisations needed to test guiding structures.
Expected Outcomes
- Acquiring the key principles of light guiding in optical devices and of fibre gratings.
- Experiencing a key technology for waveguide fabrication (hands-on activity).
- Gaining the capability of performing the most essential characterizations of planar (slab and
channel) waveguides (hands-on activity).
- Acquiring the key principles of fiber gratings design and production (hands-on activity).
- See and realize exemplative applications of fiber gratings for sensing (hands-on activity)
