2011 - Silicon photonics: motivation and history

Given by: Professor Michal Lipson
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cornell University

Content:

  • Introduction, types of waveguides, bandwidth, photonics applications.
  • Derivation of wave equation from Maxwell's equations, solutions to the wave equation. Total internal reflection, wave optics vs Ray optics.
  • Planar slab waveguide, graphical and numerical solutions, numerical aperture, Slots waveguides, Couplers, Inverse tapers, Normalized propagation parameters, rectangular waveguide, effective index method. Attenuation, absorption, losses in rectangular waveguides
  • Coupled mode theory, analysis of a coupler, degenerate mode coupling. Circular waveguides, ring resonators
  • Modulators.
  • Novel low loss waveguides.
  • Nonlinear silicon photonics.