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.