Planar lightwave circuits - 4PMTPLC6

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.

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

Semester 8 - The exam is given in english only 

One written exam at the end of the course

Calcul de la note

N1=100% written exam

Semester 8 - This course is given in english only 

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