Daily Schedule

Week Date Lecture Topic Reference Due
1 1/10 Introduction and organization
1/12 Wave equation 2.1-2.4
1/14 Plane wave solutions 2.5-2.8
2 1/17 No Class - MLK
1/19 Plane wave solutions 2.5-2.8
1/21 Fresnel equations 2.9
3 1/24 Total internal reflection 2.10-2.12
1/26 Slab waveguide 3.1-3.4
1/28 Eigenvalue problem 3.5 HW #1
4 1/31 Symmetric slab waveguide 3.6-3.9
2/2 Symmetric slab waveguide 3.10-3.12
2/4 Rectangular waveguide 5.1-5.2
5 2/7 Rectangular waveguide 5.2
2/9 Effective index approximation 5.4
2/11 Material dispersion 6.1-6.3 HW #2
6 2/14 Waveguide dispersion 6.4-6.6
2/16 Waveguide attenuation 8.1-8.6
2/18 Simulation methods 9.1, 9.9
7 2/21 No Class - Pres Day
2/23 Finite difference beam propagation method HW #3
2/25 MIDTERM EXAM I solutions
8 2/28 Split-step beam propagation method 9.2-9.7
3/2 Perturbation theory Perturbation theory 10.1 - 10.2
3/4 Perturbation theory - intramode coupling 10.3.1
9 3/7 Perturbation theory - intermode coupling 10.3.2
3/9 Perturbation theory - degenerate mode coupling 10.4
3/11 Perturbation theory - periodic perturbation 10.5
10 3/14 No Class
3/16 Waveguide coupling 11.1-11.3
3/18 External coupling to waveguide 11.3
11 3/28 Prism coupling 11.4
3/30 Grating coupling 11.5
4/1 Waveguide modulators 12.1-12.2
12 4/4 Thermo-optic effect, Mach_Zehnder modulators 12.4
4/6 Carrier modulation 12.7.2
4/8 Waveguide gratings 14.2
13 4/11 Grating resonators 14.3-14.4
4/13 MIDTERM EXAM II solutions
4/15 Bending losses and ring resonators 14.5-14.8
14 4/18 Ring resonator circuits
4/20 MMI devices
4/22 MMI devices
15 4/25 No Class
4/27 No Class
5/5 FINAL EXAM PERIOD - Presentations 1:00-3:00