ECE 5412 - Fundamentals of Optoelectronics

This is an introductory lecture course to the fundamental principles of semiconductor optoelectronic devices. Together with ECE 5410, these two courses provide a full introduction to fundamentals of optics and optoelectronics. This course will first review basic elements of quantum mechanics, light-matter interaction, and semiconductor physics. After that, we will study modern optoelectronic devices for the generation, detection, and modulation of light. Device examples include laser diodes, light-emitting diodes, optical modulators, photoconductors and photodiodes. At the end of this course, cutting-edge research such as optical machine learning hardware will be introduced.