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EE232, Spring 2018
Lightwave Devices

INSTRUCTORS

LECTURES              Tuesday and Thursday – 12:40 to 2:00 pm in 293 Cory

DISCUSSION SESSION       Wed – 2:10 to 3:00 pm in 293 Cory

TEXTBOOK

  • S.L. Chuang, Physics of Photonic Devices, Second Edition, John Wiley and Sons, 2009

                                                                                        
REFERENCES (On reserve at Engineering Library)

  • Yariv & Yeh, Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications, Oxford University Press, 2006
  • L A Coldren; S W Corzine; Milan Mashanovitch, Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits, John Wiley & Sons, 2012
  • Saleh & Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, 2nd Ed. Wiley, 2007
  • [Reference for discussion session] Lukas Chrostowski and Michael Hochberg, Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems, Cambridge University Press, 2015

                                                                                                    
COURSE OBJECTIVE

  • Develop a physical understanding of optoelectronic devices, including light-emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, photodetectors, modulators; solar cells
  • Acquire basic skills for analyzing and designing semiconductor optoelectronic and photonic integrated devices.

PREREQUISSITES

  • EE 130: p-n junction, semiconductor physics, concept of energy bands, Fermi levels.
  • PHYS 137A/B: (recommended) Basic concept of quantum mechanics, perturbation theory
  • EE 117: (recommended) Concept of dielectric waveguide, electromagnetic waves.

HOMEWORK
Homework is usually assigned on Thursdays and due the following Thursday in class. Discussion and collaboration is permitted, but you must write your own derivations and do your own calculations.

EXAM & GRADES (grades will be posted in bCourses)
Homework                  20%
2 Midterms                  20% + 20%
Final Exam                  20%
Final Project                20%

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 Last updated January 17, 2018