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Course: 2025/2026

Optoelectronic systems
(18431)
Bachelor in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering (Plan: 444 - Estudio: 223)


Coordinating teacher: SANCHEZ PENA, JOSE MANUEL

Department assigned to the subject: Electronic Technology Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Electronic Instrumentation Electronic Instrumentation Systems
Objectives
By the end of this content area, students will be able to have: 1. A coherent knowledge of their branch of engineering including some at the forefront of the branch in optoelectronic instrumentation. 2. The ability to apply their knowledge and understanding of optoelectronic instrumentation to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems using established methods. 3. The ability to apply their knowledge and understanding to develop and realise designs to meet defined and specified requirements. 4. An understanding of design methodologies, and an ability to use them in the design of optoelectronic systems. 5. The ability to design and conduct appropriate experiments, interpret the data and draw conclusions. 6. Workshop and laboratory skills. 7. The ability to select and use appropriate equipment, tools and methods. 8. The ability to combine theory and practice to solve problems of optoelectronic instrumentation. 9. An understanding of applicable techniques and methods in optoelectronic instrumentation, and of their limitations.
Learning Outcomes
RA1.3: Coherent knowledge of their branch of industrial engineering including some at the forefront of the branch. RA2.1: The ability to apply their knowledge and understanding to identify, formulate and solve engineering problems using established methods. RA3.1: The ability to apply their knowledge and understanding to develop and realise designs to meet defined and specified requirements. RA3.2: An understanding of design methodologies, and an ability to use them. RA4.2: The ability to design and conduct appropriate experiments, interpret the data and draw conclusions. RA4.3: Workshop and laboratory skills. RA5.1: The ability to select and use appropriate equipment, tools and methods. RA5.2: The ability to combine theory and practice to solve engineering problems. RA5.3: An understanding of applicable techniques and methods, and of their limitations. CB1: Students have demonstrated possession and understanding of knowledge in an area of study that builds on the foundation of general secondary education, and is usually at a level that, while relying on advanced textbooks, also includes some aspects that involve knowledge from the cutting edge of their field of study. CB2: Students are able to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional manner and possess the competences usually demonstrated through the development and defence of arguments and problem solving within their field of study. CG1: Ability to resolve problems with initiative, creativity decision-making and critical reasoning skills, and to communicate and transmit knowledge, skills and abilities in the Industrial Engineering area. CG3: Capacity to design a system, component or process in the area of electronic and automatic engineering in compliance with required specifications. CE5: Applied knowledge of electronic instrumentation. CE6: Ability to design analog, digital and power electronic systems.
Description of contents: programme
1. Introduction to light. Basic magnitudes. Basic laws of optics 2. Optical sources. Semiconductor devices. Electronic circuits. VLC systems 2.1 Working principle of optical emitters based on semiconductors; Energy bands. Absorption, emission processes spontaneous and stimulated emission 2.2 Types of optical emitters: LED and LASER. Comparison of basic characteristics. Efficiencies 2.3 Electrooptic characteristic curves; Optical power-current curve; Spectral response curve. Bandwidth; Operation dependence on temperature 2.4 Application circuits 2.5 LED-based VLC systems: basic principles 2.6 Mono and multicarrier modulations 2.7 Applications in different environments: vehicles, infoentretainment, etc. 3. Photodetectors and optocouplers. Electronic conditioning circuits 3.1 Absorption process in sc. Principle of operation of photodetectors 3.2 Types of photodetectors: p-n, pin, APD, phototransistors 3.3 Responsivity and efficiency. Spectral and E/O characteristic curves 3.4 Concept of noise in photodetectors: types and evaluation 3.5 Conditioning circuits in photodetectors 4. Electro-optical materials, optical and electrical properties. Devices. Applications 4.1 Electro-optical effects on radiation / matter interaction 4.2 E / O materials: Liquid crystals, Electrochromic and Electrophoretic. Operating principles and characteristic E/O curves 4.3 Electrical equivalent circuits. 4.4 Applications: sensing, privacy control, communications, biomedical, etc. 5. Propagation of light. Optical Fibers: Attenuation and Dispersion 5.1 Propagation in guided media: wave equation 5.2 Characteristic parameters F.O: Singlemode and multimode fibers 5.3 Attenuation in F.O. Communications windows 5.4 Dispersion in F.O.: intermodal, chromatic and PMD 5.5 Bandwidth 6. Optical sensors and fiber optic sensors. Applications 6.1 Introduction. General characteristics of optical sensors. 6.2 Types of sensors depending on the magnitude: T, pressure, stress, etc. 7. Optoelectronic instrumentation systems in industrial applications. 7.1 Basic components of instrumentation systems 7.2 S.I. for applications in environment, space, etc.
Learning activities and methodology
The teaching methodology will include: - Theoretical-practical classes where the knowledge that students must acquire will be presented. The students will have at their disposal the class notes and will have basic reference texts to facilitate the follow-up of the classes and the development of the subsequent work. - Problem classes, in which the problems proposed to the students are developed and discussed. - Laboratory practices where the student analyses, implements and measures characteristic parameters of electronic circuits of real application, using instrumentation and measurement techniques in the laboratory. - Tutorials. Individual assistance (individual tutorials) or group (collective tutorials) to students by the teacher. - Individual or group work of the student Note: Use of Artificial Intelligence tools is selectively allowed in this subject. The teacher may indicate a list of assignments and exercises that the student may carry out using AI tools, specifying how they should be used, and how the student should describe the use he/she has made of them. If the use of AI by the student gives rise to academic fraud by falsifying the results of an exam or work required to accredit academic performance, the provisions of the Carlos III University of Madrid Regulations for the partial development of Law 3/2022, of 24 February, on university coexistence will be applied.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 40
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 60

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • B.E.A. Saleh , M.C. Teich. Fundamentals of Photonics. Wiley - Interscience. 2007
  • R.P. Khare. Fiber Optics and Optoelectronics. Oxford. 2004
Additional Bibliography
  • Edel Uiga. Optoelectronics. Prentice Hall. 1995

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.