EDUCATIONAL KITS - COMPREHENSIVE SOLUTIONS FOR PHOTONICS TEACHING & TRAINING LABORATORIES

OptoSci's Photonics Educator Kits offer comprehensive and fully self-contained laboratory based educational kits for universities, colleges, education & training centres teaching: geometrical & physical optics, optical waveguiding, fiber optics, optical fibre components, fibre optic communications, BER, WDM systems, Bragg gratings, fibre amplifiers, lasers, OTDR, optical networks, fiber sensors, biophotonics, nanophotonics, etc.

OptoSci's photonics education packages:

  • Designed in collaboration with university academics
  • Cover core principles, key technologies & applications
  • Include all required optoelectronic hardware
  • Competitively priced with worldwide reference sites
  • Contain extensive teaching support package
  • Also used for Problem Based Learning labs
Our current range of educator kits includes:

ED-OPTICS

ED-WAVE

ED-COM

BER(COM)

ED-NET

ED-OPTICS Physical Optics: available as separate modules or combined kit studying polarisation, reflection and refraction, diffraction, interference & coherence ED-WAVE Optical Waveguiding: prism coupling, step & graded index multimode and singlemode planar waveguides, m-lines, TE & TM mode spectra, waveguide characterisation
Also available: SWAN(MIC) Waveguide Analysis Software
ED-COM Fibre Optic Communications: source (LED & Laser), receiver and fibre characterisation, attenuation limited link lengths, fibre dispersion, step & frequency response, Bit rate distance products BER(COM) Bit Error Rates extension to ED-COM: eye diagrams, bit rate limitations due to noise, attenuation and dispersion, system Q-factors & BER from noise amplitudes & eye pattern histograms ED-NET Optical Network Analysis & OTDR: OTDR operation, event identification & location, line & fibre component loss measurement and characterisation, multi-branch networks, fault location & analysis
         

ED-AMP

ED-LASE

ED-WDM

ED-AMP Erbium Doped Fibre Amplifiers: EDFA gain variation with signal & pump power, small & large signal gains, gain and pump characteristics, ASE-ASE & Signal-ASE beat noise, output SNR, noise figure.
Also available:LASE (Module), Fibre lasers extension to ED-AMP
ED-LASE Fibre Lasers: EDF ring laser construction, gain medium characterisation, slope efficiency, lasing threshold, effect of intra-cavity loss & output transmission ratio, laser dynamics, relaxation oscillations, laser onset time ED-WDM Series WDM Components, WDM Systems and Bragg Gratings: Modular range of kits investigating, analysing and characterising WDM Fibre Optic Components, 1310/1550nm WDM Systems, Dense WDM Systems, and Fibre Bragg Gratings NEW KITS Kits currently under development:

Raman Amplifiers; Introductory Optics; Fibre Optics; Fibre Sensors; Optical Receivers, Biophotonics; Nanophotonics
INTEGRATED TRAINING LABS IN PHOTONICS: Combining OptoSci's extensive range of educator kits with third party instrumentation we can also design and supply fully integrated teaching and training labs covering areas from basic optics, fibre optics and optical communications, through to advanced optical communication applications, instruments and technology.

Each OptoSci education kit saves the tutor significant course, literature, and hardware development effort and includes:

  • all optoelectronic hardware required to perform the experimental programme
  • manuals to guide the students through the background theory and experimental programme
  • an instructor's manual which contains sample results and solutions for all of the experiments and exercises
  • a comprehensive set of background / lecture notes (incorporating tutorial examples, design exercises and case studies plus solutions)


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