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Review of Gaussian optics and polarization properties of light; Ultrashort laser pulse generation and characterization; TDM and WDM technologies for communication systems: optical modulators, optical amplifiers, photodetectors, optical switching, carrier dynamics in semiconductor devices; Optical signal processing: optoelectronic and all-optical sampling, nonlinear optical techniques; Ultrafast optoelectronic instrumentation and measurement techniques; Broadband applications.
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The lecture course covers selected topics in optoelectronics. Possible topics that will be covered include the physical principles of optoelectronic devices (e.g., modelling the gain of quantum well laser diodes), the theory of ultrashort pulse propagation in nonlinear dispersive media, and case studies of practical optoelectronic systems. Coursework may include practical design exercises for optoelectronic systems.
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Wave acoustics; Principles of sound production and sound perception; Production of speech and music signals; Fundamentals of discrete-time signal processing; Time-domain and frequency-domain methods of speech processing; Linear predictive analysis of speech; Properties of music and other audio signals; Periodicity and harmonics; Pitch extraction; Speech and audio coding techniques; Introduction to speech and music synthesis.
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Wave acoustics; Principles of sound production and sound perception; Production of speech and music signals; Fundamentals of discrete-time signal processing; Time-domain and frequency-domain methods of speech processing; Linear predictive analysis of speech; Properties of music and other audio signals; Periodicity and harmonics; Pitch extraction; Speech and audio coding techniques; Introduction to speech and music synthesis.
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II – E – ELE – 6 Review of quantum theory and energy band theory of solids. Semiconductor fundamentals and transport properties; high field phenomena and hot electron effects. Semiconductor heterostructures: band-edge discontinuity, 2D electron gas, quantum wells and superlattices, Electronic Engineering 2007-08 resonant tunneling diodes and transistors. Dielectric and optical properties; semiconductor structures for optical devices.
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Introduction: television standards, digital image representation, statistical models, basic lossless and lossy coding techniques; advanced coding techniques: wavelet coding, synthetic-natural hybrid coding, post-processing techniques; image coding standards: JPEG, JPEG 2000; video coding standards: H.261, H.263, MPEG1, MPEG2, MPEG4; HDTV standard.
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By the end of the course, students should be able to
- know how video images are formed, perceived by sensors and represented in various formats.
- understand the characterization and sampling of video signal in space and time, and its modeling using different physical models.
- analyze and design the various building blocks of a video codec (encoder/decoder).
- apply the latest video coding standards, such as MPEG-4, H.264, and AVS, in multimedia services.
