March 12, 2019
Design and device implementation of diode pumped solid state lasers, nonlinear frequency conversion, Q-switching, mode locking, and pulsed second harmonic generation. The goal of this course is to understand the fundamental issues in designing and building lasers. The course consists of a sequence of six inter-connecting experiments based on a diode-pumped Nd:YAG laser. The experiments…
March 12, 2019
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. The goal of this course is help the students relate what they have learned in classroom to what they can see in the lab of a variety topics…
March 12, 2019
Introduction of the forefront of attosecond optics research. Topics include the fundamental theories and latest journal publications. Frontiers in Attosecond Optics Prerequisites: OSE 6349 Applied Quantum Mechanics for Optics and Engieering OR PHY 5606 Quantum Mechanica I; AND OSE 6111 Optical Wave Propagation, OR PHY 5346 Electrodynamics I or OSE 6525 Laser Engineering Course assignments/exams: 11…
March 12, 2019
Generation, transmission, detection and manipulation of high-speed optical signals. This course deals with the fundamentals and applications of the generation, transmission, detection and manipulation of high speed optical signals. The course is broadly divided into four sections. The first part of the course discusses the primary methods used to generate high speed optical signals. The…
March 12, 2019
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. Course Goals The course complements the OSE courses on ‘fundamentals of optoelectronic devices’, ‘computational photonics’ and ‘optical communication systems’ to deepen students’ education in photonic engineering. The course’s goal is…
March 12, 2019
Presents the elements of quantum mechanics that are essential for understanding many areas in modern optics and photonics. The aim of this course is to present the elements of quantum mechanics that are essential for understanding many areas in modern optics and photonics. This course will be useful background for pursuing more advanced courses in…
March 12, 2019
Semi-classical treatment of light/matter interaction (quantized atomic states and Maxwell’s equations), density matrix theory, coherent optical transition, pulse propagation. This course covers quantum optics in the semi-classical approximation. In this approximation the atomic/molecular system is described quantum-mechanically with a finite number of discrete quantum energy levels, while transitions between those levels are considered as if…
March 12, 2019
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…
March 12, 2019
Maxwell’s equations in linear and nonlinear media, 2nd and 3rd -order optical nonlinearities, nonlinear crystals, phase-matching, frequency conversion techniques, stimulated scattering, self-phase modulation, pulse compression, solitons. This course studies the interaction of intense light with optically transparent media when the interaction becomes non-linear, that is, when Newton’s principle of superposition ceases to operate. Starting with…
March 12, 2019
Design principles of lens and mirror optical systems; evaluation of designs using computer techniques. Lens design used to be a skill reserved for a very few professionals. They used company proprietary optical design and analysis software which was resident on large and expensive mainframe computers. Today, with reasonably priced commercially-available optical design software and powerful…
March 12, 2019
Use of fiber optics as a communication channel. Principles of fiber optics, Mode theory, transmitters, modulators, sensors, detectors, and demodulators. As of Spring 2008 this course replaced OSE5143. OSE 6143 Fiber-Optic Communication is a system-oriented course that emphasize end-to-end performance. End-to-end means starting from electrical signals at the transmitter and end up with electrical signals…
March 12, 2019
Computational methods for photonic guided wave structures, periodic structures, and integrated photonics structures and devices. Credit Hours: 3 hours Prerequisite: OSE-6111 or consent of instructor. Learning outcomes: Upon completion of this course, students will be familiar with the most widely used computational photonics techniques including: rigorous coupled-wave analysis (RCWA) frequency-domain eigen modes approach,, finite difference frequency-domain (FDFD), and…