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 Malik KEMICHEContent(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
Course list
Curriculum->NANOTECH->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