Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

 

The Ohio State University

 

ECE 694H - Integrated Optics - Autumn 2006

 

 

Instructor:      Ronald M. Reano

Office:             Caldwell Laboratory, Room 213

Phone:             614-247-7204

Email:              reano@ece.osu.edu

Office hours:   MWF 1:30 AM - 2:30 AM

 

Lecture:          MWF 2:30 - 3:18 AM, Caldwell Laboratory 102

 

Course Description: Fundamentals of planar lightwave circuits and guided wave devices; propagation in anisotropic media; electrooptic and nonlinear optical effects; emerging concepts in RF photonics and nanobiotechnology.

 

Course Objectives:

1. Students will learn the fundamentals of guided wave propagation in planar rectangular dielectric waveguides.

2. Students will learn concepts for design and synthesis of planar lightwave devices (modulators, resonators, switches, filters, couplers, interferometers, multiplexers, bistable devices).

3. Students will be exposed to emerging research topics in RF photonics and nanobiotechnology.

 

Text:   Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides, 2nd Ed., by Katsunari Okamoto, Academic Press

            ISBN: 0-12-525096-7

 

References (supplemental reading):

[1] Photonics, by Yariv and Yeh

[2] Optical Waves in Crystals, by Yariv and Yeh

[3] Nonlinear Optics, by Boyd

 

Prerequisites: ECE 312 (Electromagnetics II), or grad standing.

 

Downloads:

Syllabus

Course introduction slide

Computer lab start-up notes

Computer lab (3D simulations)

Computer lab (Drawing Arcs)

Homework assignment 1

Homework solutions 1

Homework assignment 2

Homework solutions 2

Homework assignment 3

Homework solutions 3

Homework assignment 4

Homework solutions 4

Homework assignment 5

Homework solutions 5

Homework assignment 6

Homework solutions 6

Project presentation schedule

Project presentation group assignments

Exam solutions

 

Links:

Make circuits with light!  Read an IEEE Spectrum article that illustrates a future where ordinary silicon chips will move data using light rather than electrons, unleashing nearly limitless bandwidth and revolutionizing computing.

 

Professor Reano's website