Syllabus
Introduction. Electromagnetic theory of planar and channel dielectric waveguides.
Methods of calculation of eigenmodes in planar and channel waveguides. Radiation from waveguide bends, analysis of bent waveguides. “Rigorous” and approximate coupled mode methods, beam propagation methods.
Mode expansion propagation method, Fourier modal methods. Freely available and commercial program packets for the analysis and design of integrated optical structures.
Introduction into fabrication of integrated photonic structures. Optical and electron-beam lithography.
Ion exchange, epitaxial growth, thin-film deposition. Glass, organic polymers, LiNbO3, semiconductors AIIIBV, SiO2, silicon on insulator.
Characterization methods for waveguide structures. Coupling prism and grating, mode spectroscopy. Field distribution and attenuation measurement, group refractive index.
Application of a near-field optical microscope. Overview of physical effects frequently used in integrated optics.
Thermooptic, electrooptic, acoustooptic, magnetooptic and nonlinear optical effects. Franz-Keldysh effect, effects in quantum confined structures (QCSE).
Passive integrated optic structures (power, polarization and mode splitters, spectral de/multiplexers). Dynamic devices - modulators, tunable filters etc.
High-contrast structures and devices. Microresonators, silicon photonics.
Fundamentals of photonic crystals, waveguides mad microcavities in photonic crystals. Fundamentals of plasmonics, subwavelength waveguide structures.
Applications of integrated photonics in optical communications, information technologies and sensing, perspectives of further development.
Annotation
Fundamentals of the theory of planar and channel dielectric waveguides. Methods for the calculation of propagation constants and field distributions of eigenmodes.
Fundamentals of numerical methods for the analysis and design of mode complex waveguide structures. Coupled mode theory, beam propagation methods, Fourier modal methods.
Basic technological platforms of integrated optical devices. Physical and technical principles of integrated optical devices.
Passive, dynamic, active, and nonlinear devices. Examples of devices important in applications.
Photonic crystals, waveguides in photonic cr