Course Content
* Module 1: Electromagnetic Foundations and Guided-Wave Optics: Review of Maxwell`s equations and wave propagation in dielectric media and interfaces, Planar and channel optical waveguides, Single-mode and multimode waveguide design principles, Effective index method, Rib/ridge waveguides, Waveguide dispersion and confinement, Waveguide bends and radiation loss. * Module 2: Coupled Mode Theory and Bragg Structures: Modal coupling in integrated waveguides, Coupled Mode Theory (co- and contra-directional coupling), Directional coupling in waveguides, Diffraction Grating in waveguides, Distributed Bragg Reflectors (DBR), Sub-wavelength engineered gratings, Resonant and periodic structures. * Module 3: Integrated Passive Photonic Components: Power splitting and coupling-Directional couplers (DC), Multi-Mode Interference (MMI) couplers. Mach-Zehnder Interferometers (MZI), Microring Resonators (MRR) and quality factor, Arrayed Waveguide grating (AWG), Optical filters and delay lines. * Module 4: Active Photonic Devices: Thermo-optic and electro-optic effects, Integrated phase shifters, High-speed optical modulators (carrier plasma effect, Pockels effect), Electro-optic Mach-Zehnder modulators, Integrated light sources: Heterogeneous integration of III-V materials, Integrated photodetectors: PIN and APD structures, Performance parameters * Module 5: Coupling and Packaging in Integrated Photonics: Fiber-to-waveguide coupling, Vertical grating couplers, Edge coupling, Adiabatic mode-size converters, Alignment tolerances and packaging considerations, Electrical interfaces and RF considerations. * Module 6: Material Platforms and Fabrication Technologies, Reconfigurable and Programmable Architectures, Optical Nonlinearity in Integrated Photonics and Applications of Photonic Integrated Circuits
Text / References
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- 4 Integrated Photonics, Clifford R. Pollock, Michal Lipson, Springer, 2003.
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- 6 Integrated Optical Circuits and Components, Edmond J. Murphy, CRC Press, 1999.