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Fall 2016

OSE6335 - Nonlinear Guided Wave Optics

The physics and applications on nonlinear interactions in fibers and planar waveguides is discussed, including parametric processes, all optical effects and solutions.

Nonlinear guided wave optics will play an ever increasing important role in tomorrow’s optical science and technology. This course aims to introduce graduate students to the fascinating and exotic world of nonlinear photonic structures and nonlinear dynamics. Topics to be covered range from nonlinear effects in optical fibers to some very recent developments in nonlinear optical lattices and photonic crystal systems.

Prerequisites:

OSE6334 – Nonlinear Optics

List of topics:

Aspects of nonlinear dynamics-integrability
Diffraction, dispersion, waveguides-coupled mode theory
Nonlinearities, nonlinear waveguide structures
Self-phase modulation, cross-phase modulation, nonlinear non reciprocity
Beam propagation methods
Optical Solitons, modulational instability, optical compression
Basic nonlinear waveguide devices
Bragg and gap solitons, vector solitons
Spatial solitons, Kerr, chi-2, photorefractive,
Discrete solitons and nonlinear waveguide lattices
Incoherent self-trapping
Ginzburg-Landau systems and amplifiers
Nonlinear optics in particle suspensions
Self-induced transparency
Stimulated Raman and Brillouin amplification effects
Four wave mixing