Introduction to Lasers and Optical Electronics

Lecture Notes:

Week 1: Maxwell equations (Chapter 5.1-5.4)

Week 2: Polarization, Snell's law (Chapter 6.1 and 6.2)

Week 3: Dielectric Waveguide (Chapter 8.2 and 8.3)

Week 4: Fiber Optics (Chapter 9)

Week 5: Resonator Optics (Chapter 10)

Week 6: Photon and Atom (Chapter 13)

Assignments & Solutions:

HW 1    Solution 1

HW 2    Solution 2

HW 3    Solution 3

HW 4

HW 5

COURSE DESCRIPTION:                                 

• Basic tools in understanding a wide range of engineering applications of photonics
• Guided-wave optics: planar waveguides, optical fibers
• Resonant cavities, lasers, pn junctions, semiconductor lasers
• Photodetector, optic modulators, integrated optics elements
• Polarization and modulation of light