Integrated
Optics
The University
of Texas Arlington
Lecture Time: MON,WED 4:00 a.m. - 5:20 p.m. Location: 105 NH
Syllabus Schedule (updated), Integrated Optics Group and EE5386 Activity Schedule.
Important Announcements
HW12 on the web. Today lecture will be devoted to H12 solution and initiation to Beamprop. Other propblems can be revized. Bring your suggestions
Students are responsible for checking the class website for updated information and course materials.
EE5386 Integrated Optics course will cover the principles and fabrication techniques of modern integrated optics: planar light-wave circuits. Course will include theory of E-M propagation in various dielectric waveguide structures, design aspects of PLC devices: Couplers, Mach-Zehnder Interferometers (MZI), Interleavers, Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG), Planar Mode - Reshaper (PMRS) and Power combiners. Attention will be devoted to real fabrication process of PLCs: fabrication of photolithography masks, technology basis of PLC. Prerequisites: PHYS 3445 or by permission of the instructor.
Course Objectives: Will give you a strength to design and fabricate a Planar Light-wave circuits - future components of electronic integrated circuits, telecommunication devices. PLC devices are at the cutting edge of modern engineering research: all-optical processing, bio-sensors, high-power optical sources, quantum computing. Due to the fact that PLC circuits are produced at standard silicon foundry (same as for electronic integrated circuits), PLC considered today as a unique way to practical low-cost high-performance optical devices.
Prerequisites: EE4344 Optical System design, EE53xx Advanced Photonics, Advanced Optical Class or
by permission of the instructor.
Instructor: Dr. Nikolai Stelmakh
Office : Room 509 NH
Office hours : 10:30AM -11:45PM, Friday Wednesday and by appointment
E-mail
: nikolais@uta.edu
Web
: http://www-ee.uta.edu/eedept/faculty/stelmakh.htm
Principal text book: Katsunari Okamoto, Fundamentals of optical waveguides,
Recommended reading:
R.G. Hunsperger, “Integrated Optics”, Theory and Technology, Springer.,T.Tamir, Integrated OpticsB.E.A.Saleh, M.C.Teich: “Fundamentals of Photonics”, Eugene Hecht: “Optics”. 4th Edition, Feynman, Leighton, Sands: “The Feynman lecture on physics”
Planar Light-Wave Circuit (PLC) Technology Intro/Overview
Class Materials:
Lecture notes : Revision 1, BeamPropOverview, Cleaving Problem p1, p2, p3
Homework: HW1, HW2, HW3, HW4, HW5, HW6, HW7 with part of L12, HW8, HW10, HW11, HW12(BeamProp)
Homework Solutions
Quizzes&Quiz Solutions
Support Materials: Greek Alphabet, Trig Identities, ExtraFromBeamPropManual
1st Exam
2nd Exam
Grading Criteria:
Grading: Homework 10% Quizzes 20% Two exams 20% each, Project 30%
Grading system: C 61-71, B 71-85, A 86-100