Optoelectronics

References:

  • J. Wilson, J. Hawkes, Optoelectronics, An Introduction, Prentice Hall Europe, 1998.
  • Richard S. Quimby, Photonics and Lasers, An Introduction, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2006.
  • J. Singh, Optoelectronics, An Introduction to Materials and Devices, McGraw-Hill, 1996.
  • H. C. Casey JR., M. B. Panish, Heterostructure Lasers, Part A, Academic Press, 1978.
  • J. M. Liu, Photonic Devices, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  • G. P. Agrawal, Fiber Optic Communication Systems, John Wiley & Sons, 2002.
  • D. A. B. Miller, Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices, Stanford University, 1999.
  • P. Bhattacharya, Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices, Prentice Hall International, 2002.
  • E. G. Smith, Terry A. King, Dan Wilkins, Optics and Photonics: An Introduction, John Wiley and Sons, 2007.

Course Objectives

  • Understanding key design issues of optical communication link using optical fiber
  • Understanding the major semiconductor optoelectronic devices:
  • Physics and operating principles,
  • Design, characteristics and applications
  • Example of design considerations

Syllabus:

  • Introduction, Lectures 1-2
    • Lecture 1:
    • Optoelectronics, position, role, and trend
    • Lecture 2:
    • Review of light wave communication
  • Optoelectronic materials, hetero-structure semiconductor devices, optical and electronic properties of semiconductors, Lecture 3
    • Lecture 3:
    • States of materials: solids, liquid, gas, Liquid Crystals
    • Compound materials
    • Crystals
    • Interfaces
    • Poly crystals
  • Optical processes and light propagation in crystals (polarization, refraction, reflection, transmission, Maxwell’s equations and wave equations), Lecture 4-8
    • Lecture 4:
    • Maxwell’s and Helmholtz equations in a lossless medium
    • Lecture 5-6:
    • Maxwell’s and Helmholtz equations in a lossy medium
    • Lecture 7:
    • Types of polarizations
    • Lecture 8:
    • Superposition and concept of group and phase velocity
  • Light propagation in waveguides, Lecture 9
    • Lecture 9:
    • Optical fibers
    • Mode dispersion fibers
    • Planar waveguides
    • Couplers
  • Light emitting diodes, Lecture 10-13
    • Lecture 10:
    • Types of emission
    • Lecture 11:
    • Types of absorption
    • Lecture 12-13:
    • LED material systems
    • Physics of operation, structures, characteristics, and reliability
    • Lecture 14:
    • Modes of propagations
  • Laser diodes (spontaneous and stimulated emission, gain and loss, structures, time response, characteristics), Lecture 15-20
    • Lecture 15:
    • Einstein’s relations
    • Lecture 16:
    • Attainment of a population inversion and optical feedback
    • Lecture 17:
    • PI and threshold conditions
    • Lecture 18-20:
    • Different kinds of LDs
  • Optical detectors, Lecture 21
    • Lecture 21:
    • Optical absorption, physics of operation, structures, and characteristics

Project:

  • 04/08/98: Choose your project and email the title and related documents
  • 11/08/98: Confirm the project
  • 02/09/98: Report #1, introduction, history and explain next steps
  • 30/09/98: Report #2, illustrate your own results
  • 14/10/98: Report #3 and prepare your presentation
  • 12/11/98: Report #4 double column (paper template)

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