Lecture Notes

This page presents notes for a subset of class lectures.

LEC # TOPICS
1 Optical Materials Design 1 (PDF)
2 Optical Materials Design 2 (PDF)
3 System Design: TDM, WDM (PDF)
4 Ray Optics, EM Optics and Guided Wave Optics (PDF)
5 Waveguide Design (PDF)
6 WDM Filters: The Microcavity and the Ring Resonator
7 Photonic Crystals
8 Electrons in Semiconductors
9 Photons in Semiconductors and Dielectrics
10 LEDs (PDF)
11 Optical Amplifiers and Lasers (PDF)
12 Crystal Growth (PDF)
13 Nonlinear Optics and Modulators
14 Defects and Strain (PDF)
15 III-V Processing (PDF)
16 Detectors 1 (PDF)
17 Detectors 2 (PDF)
18 Microphotonics 1
19 Microphotonics 2
20 Nanophotonics
21 Photonics Toolkit