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EE232, Spring 2016
Lightwave Devices

TOPICS AND TENTATIVE SCHEDULE (more updated schedule will be posted on the web)

Week#

Topics

1

Introduction to Optoelectronics (Chap. 1)
Maxwell’s equations (§2.1);
Semiconductor electronics (§2.2);

2

Basic quantum mechanics, square potential well (§3.1, 3.2);

3

Time-dependent perturbation theory (§3.5-3.6);
Fermi’s Golden Rule (§9.1);

4

Optical absorption, spontaneous and stimulated emission (§9.2);
Interband absorption and gain in bulk semiconductor (§9.3)

5

Absorption and gain in quantum well structures (§9.4-9.5);

6

Intersubband absorption (§9.7);
Double heterostructure lasers (§10.1);

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<Midterm #1>

7

Optical waveguides, dispersion relations (Chap. 7, §10.2 );

8

Quantum-well lasers (§10.3);
Strain effects on band structures (§4.5);
Strained quantum-well lasers (§10.4);

9

Distributed feedback (DFB) lasers, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), Microcavity and photonic crystal lasers; quantum cascade lasers (Chap. 11)

10

Direct modulation of semiconductor lasers, Rate equations (Chap. 12);

11

Franz-Keldysh effect and excitons (§14.2, 14.3);
Quantum confined Stark effect (§14.4);
Electroabsorption modulators (§14.5);

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<Midterm #2>

12

Photodetectors (§15.1);
p-i-n photodiodes (§15.2, 15.3);

13

Avalanche photodiode (APD) (§15.4)
Intersubband photodetectors (§15.5)

14

Solar Cells (§15.6)

15

Review and discussions

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Final Exam (Group 20): Friday, May 15, 2015   7-10P
(May have early final)

Last updated January 26, 2016