Bandwidth Foundry hosts courses in the fields of industrial robotics, microfabrication, photonic sensor technology, and an introduction to photonics workshop. These courses are provided upon request in Sydney and Melbourne locations.
Bandwidth Foundry can also provide customised training courses to meet the requirements of your business.
Course Outlines:
Industrial Robotics
A three-day course on industrial robotics held at the Bandwidth Foundry laboratories at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney. The course consists of hands-on learning exercises and background theory lectures. Attendees will learn about robot safety, jogging the robot, input-output control, different robot coordinate systems, entering programs, defining tool centre points, defining new coordinate systems, off-line programming, and control of the robot from a PC. Attendees who complete the course will attain a grasp of the fundamentals of operating an industrial robot and will be able to write simple programs for practical applications.
Microfabrication
A three day course on microfabrication held at the Microelectronics and Materials Technology Centre (MMTC), RMIT University, Swanston St. Melbourne. The course consists of lectures and practical work in microfabrication and photolithography, by which fine features can be patterned for microelectronic or photonics devices. Laboratory work for this course will require the participants to work in a cleanroom environment to fabricate a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) from a bare silicon substrate, and also to fabricate a polymer waveguide. Topics covered will include clean room operation, photolithography, oxide layer formation, doping silicon by diffusion, wet etching and dry etching, electrical and optical testing.
Photonic Sensor Technology
A three-day course on photonic sensor technology held at the Bandwidth Foundry laboratoratories at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney. The course addresses topics in photonic sensors of interest to a broad industrial-based audience. Attendees will first be introduced to the optical components which form the building blocks of optical fibre sensor systems. They will then learn to write fibre Bragg gratings and use these gratings to measure temperature and strain using different interrogation techniques. Students will construct a multiplexed fibre Bragg grating strain sensor using an interrogation system based on chirped fibre Bragg grating filters. interferometric techniques for fibre optic sensing will be investigated and a fibre optic gyroscope will be studied. Polarisation of light in optical fibres and highly birefringent fibres will be discussed and applied to building a temperature sensor.
Introduction to Photonics
A three-day course on photonics held in the Bandwidth Foundry laboratories at the Australian Technology Park in Sydney. This course is aimed at industry professionals and technical staff, who may lack a strong background in optics or physics, but who wish to gain an overview of how this technology is likely to impact upon their own field of work. The course consists of lectures to introduce the central principles interspersed with practical demonstrations of photonic device fabrication and characterisation. Topics include basic optical principles, light-matter interactions, optical fibres, light sources, detectors, passive and active photonic devices, optical storage media, fabrication and measurement methods, optical networks, optical sensors, instrumentation, and laser safety issues. Practical demonstrations will include the fabrication of fibre Bragg gratings, the use of standard test equipment for device characterisation. Participants will perform hands-on exercises covering laser and optical fibre safety, interferometry and optical diffraction, optical fibre handling, stripping, cleaving, splicing, fibre test methods and instrumentation, optical time-domain reflectometry, and device characterisation.
