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1. Introduction.-
2. Theory and Measurement Approaches.-
2.1 Geometrical Optics and Experimental Setups.-
2.1.1 Application: Optical Characterization of a CTO Bulk Type Nanocomposite Sample.-
2.2 Optical Modes and Measurements Approaches.-
2.2.1 Modes of a Slab Waveguide.-
2.2.2 Modes of a Ridge Waveguide.-
2.2.3 Modes of an Artificial Anisotropic Ridge Waveguide.-
2.2.4 Microtube Modes and Measurements.-
2.3 Coupled Mode Theory.-
2.3.1 Mode Coupling in Nonlinear Waveguide: Fundamental and Second Harmonic Co-propagating Modes.-
2.3.2 Coupling Guided Mode with Radiation Modes.-
2.4 Optical Fiber Modes and Measurements.-
2.4.1 Measurements of Radiating Truncated Optical Fiber and Comparison with Numerical and Analytical Results.Photonic Crystal Fiber.-
2.4.2 Measurement Approach of Photonic Crystal Fiber.-
2.5 Photonic Crystal Modes and Interpretation of Measurements.-
2.6 Scattering and Diffraction of a Discontinuous Optical Waveguide.-
2.7 Quantum Electronics and Measurements.-
2.8 Transmission line Modeling.-
2.8.1 Even and Odd Modes of a Slab Waveguide.-
2.8.2 Arrow waveguides.-
2.8.3 3D Dielectric Corner.-
2.8.4 Metallic Probes.-
3. Optical and Wireless Devices, Fabrication Process and Applications.-
3.1 Optical Sensors.-
3.1.1 Optical Fiber Sensor for Oil Spill.-
3.1.2 IR Spectroscopy Measurements: Hydrocarbon Pollutant Determination.-
3.1.3 Micro Rectangular Aperture as Antenna Sensor and Technological Aspects.-
3.2 Distributed Bragg Reflectors.-
3.2.1 GaN/AlGaN DBR: Technology and Nonlinear Applications.-
3.2.2 4x4 GaN/AlGaN Add Drop Multiplexer Filter.-
3.3 Plasmonic Antenna.-
3.3.1 Plasmonic Permittivity Sensor and Laser Texturing Technology.-
3.3.2 Measurement Approach for Plasmonic Waveguides.-
3.4 Optical Gratings: Induced Artificial Anisotropy.-
3.4.1 Laminated Polarization Splitter (LPS).-
3.4.2 Integrated Optical Gratings.-
3.4.3 Bragg Reflector.-
3.5 Biomedical Optical Devices: Photonic Crystal Devices.-
3.6 Nonlinear Optics: Second Harmonic Generation Processes and Design of 2 Waveguides.-
3.6.1 SH Generation in Ridge Waveguides.-
3.6.2 SH Generation Process in Circular Photonic Crystals.-
3.7 Modeling of SH Generation Process in Optical Cavities.-
3.8 Vertical Microcavity Laser: Active Materials and Modeling.-
3.9 Wireless Sensors: Introduction of Ultrasonic Sensors.-
3.10 Small antenna: Design and Modeling.-
4. Nanotechnology and MEMS: Design, Technology and Measurements.-
4.1 Fabrication Process of Mo/AlN/Mo RMEMS.-
4.1.1 Piezoelectric RMEMS Antennas: Circuital Characterization, Measurements and Manufacturing.-
4.1.2 Image Approach for the Displacement Evaluation.-
4.2 Energy Harvesting measurements of RMEMS.-
4.2.1 RMEMS Modeling and Degenerate Modes.-
4.2.2 Preliminary Experimental Setup.-
4.2.3 Accurate Experimental Setup and Measurements.-
4.3 RF MEMS and Implementations.-
4.3.1 Mo/AlN/Mo Pressure Sensor: Experimentation and Measurements.-
4.3.2 Textured Layouts and Approach to the Measurements.-
4.4 Photonic Crystal by Gold Pillars.-
4.5 Optical Spherical Nanoantennas.-
4.6 Plasmonic Waveguide Design.-
4.7 Modeling of Passive Micro-Nanodevices, Cantilever MEMS and Small Antenna.-
4.7.1 GPU Simulations of Passive Micro/Nanodevices.-
4.7.2 Piezoelectric Cantilever Beam.-
4.7.3 Application: Skin Cancer Wireless Detection System.-
4.7.4 3D Micrometric Antenna for Wireless Systems.-
5. Nanocomposite Materials and Optical Sensors.-
5.1 Introduction of Nanocomposite Materials.-
5.1.1 Polymers and Metallic /Organic Inclusions: Light Scattering.-
5.1.2 Electromagnetic Aspects: EM Absorbing Properties and Optical Enhancement.-
5.1.3 Mechanical Characterization of the PDMS-Au Nanocomposite Material.-
5.1.4 Experimental Setups for the Gold Nanoparticles Generation.-
5.2 Nanocomposite Sensors for Robotics.-
5.2.1 Some Technological Aspects: CTO-Au, PDMS-Au and Optical Fiber Systems.-
5.2.2 Characterization of Nanocomposite Materials.-
5.2.3 Algorithms for Robotics.-
5.2.4 Totally Optical Reflection System by Nanocomposite Tip.-
6. Instrumentation for Measurement Procedures.-
6.1. Measurement issues and its impacts.-
6.2. Common standard parameters for measurements and instrumentation.-
6.3. Instrumentation example for measurements
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6.4. Design of experimentation in Measurements: Errors, accuracy and repeatability.-
7. Electronic Measurements and Signal processing.-
7.1 Analog and digital chains of measurements.-
7.2 Types of measurements.-
7.3 Experimental setup descriptions, signal processing and hardware.-
7.4 Digital signal processing techniques and hardware.-
7.5 Advanced techniques.-
8. Noise.-
8.1 Definitions and sources.-
8.2. Noise in bipoles and double bipoles.-
8.3. Design of noise removal: measurements and architectures.-
8.4. Practical examples.