Optoelectronics course:

Zahra Kavehvash

Course syllabus:

-           Wave Nature of Light – Conceptual Overview

Wave Equation, Refractive index, group and phase velocity, Pointing vector, Snell’s law, Fresnel’s equations, Optical Resonators, Optical Tunneling, Coherence, Diffraction

-          Optical communication systems and devices needs

Optical fiber, Optical waveguides, Optical amplifiers, Optical sources, Optical detectors.

-          Light Emitting Diodes (LED)

Science and engineering of light emitting diodes

-           Stimulated Emission Devices

Laser Diodes, Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs), Quantum well devices, Semiconducting Laser Amplifiers.

-          Photodetectors

pn junction, photodiode science and operation, avalanche and heterojunction photodiodes, phototransistors, photoconductive gain, CCD and CMOS sensors, sensing and imaging in different electromagnetic spectrum.

-          Polarization and Modulation of light

Polarization, propagation in anisotropic media, birefringent devices, integrated optical modulators, acousto-optic modulators, magneto-optic modulators, nonlinear effects.

-          Display devices (If time permits)

LCD and LED display devices, three-dimensional and light-field displays, MOEMS and MEMS displays.

-          Photovoltaic Devices (If time permits)

Solar energy spectrum, device principles, I-V characteristics, equivalent circuit, temperature effects, materials, devices, and efficiencies

-          Optical computing (If time permits)

Implementing different mathematical functions and processors with opto-electronics.

-          Practical organic optoelectronic devices (If time permits)

Use of organic thin films in active organic devices including organic LEDs, solar cells, photodetectors, transistors, chemical sensors, memory cells and organic non-linear optics.

Course Research Projects Topics (including some course topics that we may not have time to teach):

-          MEMS and MOEMS Displays

-          Organic Display devices

-          Opto-electronical processors and computers

-          The role of meta-materials in implementing optical processors

-          Compound eye sensors and cameras based on insects’ eyes

-          Applications of lasers and Laser Beam shaping in Optical Lithography

Textbook:

-          S. O. Kasap, Optoelectronics and Photonics: Principles and Practices, Prentice Hall, 2001.

-          Shun Lien Chuang , Physics of optoelectronic devices, Wiley, 1995.

-          John Wilson and John Hawkes, Optoelectronics, an introduction - 3^rd Edition, Prentice Hall 1998.

-          J. Singh, Optoelectronics: An introduction to materials and devices, McGraw-Hill, 1996.

-          P. N. Prasad, Nanophotonics, John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

Optional Reading:

1. G. P. Agrawal, Fiber optics communication system, John Wiley & Sons, 2011.

2. Saleh and Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, 2^nd ed. Wiley Interscience, 2007.

3. S. L. Chuang, Physics of Photonic Devices, 2^nd ed. Wiley, 2009.

4. A. Yariv and P. Yeh, Photonics: Optical electronics in Modern Communications, 6^th ed. Oxford University Press, 2007.

5. D. Birtalan and W. Nunley, Optoelectronics: Infrared-Visible-Ultraviolet Devices and Applications, 2^nd ed., CRC Press, 2009.