Faculty of Science

Objectives

To drill on the principles, the materials and applications of photonics.

Contents

Waveguide fundamental properties, dispersion, advantages/disadvantages;  Integrated optics;  Optical coatings; design and applications;  Photonic crystals, wave propagation, applications to high-efficiency emitters, miniaturised photonic circuits and dispersion engineering; Photonic Materials: Semiconductor Physics :Band gaps, density of states, materials, optical and electronic properties, carrier generation and recombination, mobility and diffusion, low dimensional structures, quantum wells, wires and dots, heterostructures; Polymers and Liquid-Crystals: Semiconducting polymers photoluminescence and electroluminescence; Factors determining efficiency; light-emitting diodes and field effect transistors; Liquid crystals nematic, smectic and cholosteric phases; director and order-parameter; operation of twisted nematic display; Materials Growth & Fabrication, Ultrafast Photonics Pico/femtosecond techniques; Standing wave and travelling wave resonators; Active and passive modelocking schemes; Saturable gain and loss, Nonlinear optical effects for enhanced.