Courses

The following courses are relevant to the science and technology of Semiconductor & Integrated Photonics.

OSE5312 Light Matter Interaction

Microscopic theory of absorption, dispersion, and refraction of materials; classical and quantum mechanical description of optical properties.
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OSE6432 Guided Waves and Optoelectronics

Principles of guided wave optics; electro-optics, acousto-optics and optoelectronics.
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OSE6525 Laser Engineering

Principles of laser amplification and oscillations; design of lasers; general characteristics of excitation systems.
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OSE5414 Fundamentals of Optoelectronic Devices

Operation, fabrication, applications, and limitations of various optoelectronic devices including quantum well semiconductor devices.
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OSE6125 Computational Photonics

Computational methods for photonic guided wave structures, periodic structures, and integrated photonics structures and devices.
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OSE6445 High Speed Photonics

Generation, transmission, detection and manipulation of high-speed optical signals.
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OSE6455C Photonics Laboratory

Experimental study of photonic devices and systems including liquid crystal displays, fiber-optic sensors, laser diodes, electro-optic modulation, acousto-optic modulation, lightwave detection, optical communications, and photonic signal processing
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OSE6536 Semiconductor Lasers

This course covers the light-matter interaction, thermal physics and solid state physics needed to understand, analyze, and engineer semiconductor lasers with different active region dimensionalities.
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OSE6615C Optoelectronic Device Fabrication Laboratory

Design and micro-fabrication of semiconductor optoelectronics devices including passive waveguides, light emitting diodes (LEDs), laser diodes (LDs), photodetectors and electro-optic modulators.
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OSE6650 Optical Properties of Nanostructured Materials

Theory and applications of nanostructured optical materials: effective medium theory, nanostructured surfaces, plasmon waveguides, nanophotonic circuits, metallic near-field lenses, collective modes in nanoparticle arrays, metamaterials.
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OSE6938S ST: Integrated Photonic Devices

The course reviews working principle, system functionality and design and fabrication issues of semiconductor integrated photonic devices and circuits for optical telecommunication and interconnect applications.
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EMA6611 Optoelectronic Materials Processing

Techniques for materials preparation, doping, metallization, effect of materials properties on device (e.g., solar cells, lasers and transistors) performances, electronic and optical characterization of device materials. PR: EMA 5317, Graduate standing or C.I
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OSE6314 Optics of Low Dimensional Semiconductors

Optical properties and semiconductor physics of low-dimensional systems (quantum wells, wires, and dots), nano-photonic devices, and future nano-optical concepts.
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OSE6421 Integrated Optics

The propagation and loss characteristics in dielectric optical waveguides, fundamental concepts of both integrated and fiber optic devices, numerical modeling of complex integrated optical components. As of Spring 2008, this course replaced OSE5421.
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OSE6457 Photonics Signal Processing

Design, building, and testing of photonic information processing systems using fiber-optics, bulk polarization optics, acousto-optics, electro-optics, liquid crystals, micromirrors, and integrated optics.
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OSE6534 Solid State Laser

An in depth study of issues in solid state laser systems covering, choices of materials, pump sources, rod and slab geometries, thermal effects, resonator concepts, limiting factors, and performance definitions and specification.

OSE6644 Advanced Microlithography

New types of microlithography techniques for smaller features generation, ArF, Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV), X-ray proximity, ion beam, and electron beam (Scalpel).

OSE6854 Near Field Optics

An introduction to the underlying phenomenology and the potential applications of near-field optics in using light to locate, identify, and manipulate structures on nanometer scales.
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