Planar lightwave circuits - 4PMTPLC6

Informations générales

  • Number of hours

    • Lectures 12.0
    • Projects 0
    • Tutorials 6.0
    • 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 Panagiota MORFOULI, Clemens WINKELMANN, Malik KEMICHE

Content(s)

I. Waveguides: propagation of light in a waveguide, monomode and multimode waveguides, slab and channel wavegujides, Effective Index Method, Designing a Waveguide.
II. Elementary functions: Directional couplers, Y-junctions, Interferometers



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 

calculator allowed, no documents



100% written exam

Additional Information

Semester 8 - This course is given in english only EN

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