EE 8392

Photonic Waveguides

Fall 1998

Course description: this course develops the fundamental concepts and tools required for understanding optical propagation in complex dielectric waveguides. Both active and passive optoelectronic devices, including slab waveguides, ridge-waveguides, grating filters, lasers, splitters, and modulators will be studied.

Text: Required: Fundamentals of Optoelectronics, C. Pollock

References:

1. An Introduction to Optical Waveguides, M. J. Adams, John Wiley & Sons, 1981

2. Optical Waveguides, N. S. Kapany and J. J. Burke, Academic Press, 1972

3. Integrated Optics, T. Tamir, editor, Springer-Verlag, 1975

4. Light Transmission Optics, D. Marcuse, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972

5. Dielectric Optical Waveguides, D. Marcuse, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978?

6. Optical Waveguide Theory, A. W. Snyder and J. D. Love, Chapman and Hall, 1983

7. Semiconductor Lasers and Heterojunction LEDs, H. Kressel and J. K. Butler, Academic Press, 1977

Week Course Topics

1 course overview, electromagnetics overview,

2 1D planar dielectric waveguides

3 1D planar dielectric waveguides (cont’d)

4 1D planar dielectric waveguides (cont’d)

5 far-field distributions

6 1D QW laser structures (MODEIG)

7 2D planar dielectric waveguides:

8 effective index method,

9 CSP, ridge-guides

10 complex dielectric waveguides

11 circular (fiber) waveguides

12 coupled mode theory (CMT)

13 CMT (cont’d)

14 optical modulators and switches

15 optical modulators and switches (cont’d)

Projects:

we will do two of the following:

1. Measure near- and far-field patterns of semiconductor lasers and compare with theoretical predictions.

2. Write a computer program to calculate near-field intensities and mode charts for circular fibers.

3. Analyse 1.55 µm InGaAsP laser structures
  1. Analyse 0.65 µm AlGaInP laser structures
  2. Analyse gain and index guiding in ridge-type lasers

Grade: the course grade will be determined based on class discussions, homework, and projects