ECE 6440 - Integrated Photonics

Light can be confined to sub-wavelength dimensions in dielectric devices with a highrefractive index contrast, allowing the size of the integrated optical devices to be shrunkby several orders of magnitude. These devices have profound applications, due to theircapability of large-scale integration on chip and monolithic integration with microelectronic systems. This course introduces the theory and applications of integrated photonic devices built with high refractive index contrast, especially those based on silicon. Topics include waveguides, couplers, resonators, photonic crystals and nonlinear optical devices. Both analytical and numerical techniques for device design will be discussed