Phelma Formation 2022

Planar lightwave circuits - 4PMTPLC6

  • Number of hours

    • Lectures 14.0
    • Projects 0
    • Tutorials 4.0
    • Internship 0
    • Laboratory works 0

    ECTS

    ECTS 2.0

Goal(s)

This course aims at giving an introduction to the field of Planar Ligthwave Integrated Circuits. It gives the fundamentals of dielectric waveguides, introduces elementary integrated functions and gives an overview of advanced devices and their realization technologies.

Contact Jean-Emmanuel BROQUIN

Content(s)

I. Introduction: From Colladon's fountain to PLCs, more than one century of technological and scientific evolution.
II. Waveguides: propagation of light in a waveguide, monomode and multimode waveguides, slab and channel wavegujides, Effective Index Method, Designing a Waveguide.
III. Elementary fucnctions: Directional couplers, Y-junction, Interferometer, Resonnators
IV. Overview of advanced devices: Add and Drop Mux, AWG, Bragg grating waveguides etc.



Prerequisites

Notions of geometrical and wave optics. Knowledge of the mathematical formalism of waves (complex exponentials, Maxwell equations)

Test

Semester 8 - The exam is given in english only 

2h written exam



100% written exam

Additional Information

Semester 8 - This course is given in english only EN

Course list
Curriculum->Engineering degree->Semester 8

Bibliography

Fundamentals of Photonics, Saleih and Teich, Wiley and Sons
Electromagnetic principles of Integrated Optics, Donald L. Lee.
Encyclopedic Handbook of Integrated Optics, Edited by Kenichi IGA and Yasuo Kokubun, Taylor and Francis