The graduate student must know:
• nature and properties of light, genesis of photonics, basics of interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter, principle of operation of laser and quantum amplifiers;
• scale of electromagnetic waves, light sources, methods of manipulation and amplification, methods and means of detection;
• modes of operation of lasers, types of lasers, their characteristics, practical application of lasers and high-power LEDs in industrial technologies, biomedical engineering, information and diagnostic systems, environmental control;
• alternative lighting and photon energy technologies (solar energy);
The graduate student must be able to:
• use the advantages of optics and photonics in the design of devices and technological processes;
• design separate units of optoelectronic devices, solar energy converters;
• develop selected operations of the technological process based on the source of photons;
• operate optoelectronic devices and perform technological operations using lasers and high-power LEDs;
• use knowledge of optical engineering.

– prerequisites: Analytical and numerical research methods;
– co-requisites: Plasmonics.

The nature of light and the phenomenon of the photon as an alternative to the electron carrier of information and energy are considered. Schematic diagrams and designs of optoelectronic devices, basic generation units (radiation sources of a certain spectral range - manipulation and amplification devices - electromagnetic radiation detectors) are given. Optical information display systems (displays), environmental monitoring devices (lidars and scanners) are considered. Fiber-optic communication lines, solar energy converters (photovoltaics, solar concentrators, solex systems). Modern photonic technologies in industry (laser cutting, welding, hole punching, surfacing, hardening), microelectronics (ghettoization, photostimulated diffusion processes, surface cleaning and modification, etching, deposition) are considered. Modern knowledge of femtonics and plasmonics in the field of nanotechnology is given.

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3. Bobytskyi Ya.V., Matviishyn H.L. Laser technologies: Part 2: textbook. – Lviv: Lviv Polytechnic Publishing House, 2020. – 112 p. (in Ukrainian)
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• current control (30%): written reports on practical works, oral examination, reference work;
• final control (70%): exam (written-oral form).