E7 Photonic Device, Circuits and Systems

E7 211 (AUG) 3:0

Photonics Integrated Circuits

Principles: Introduction to photonics, optical waveguide theory, numerical techniques and simulation tools, photonic waveguide components – couplers, tapers, bends, gratings. Electro-optic, acousto-optic, magneto-optic and non-linear optic effects. Modulators, switches, polarizers, filters, resonators, optoelectronics integrated circuits. Amplifiers, mux/demux, transmit receive modules.

Technology: materials – glass, lithium niobate, silicon, compound semiconductors, polymers. Fabrication – lithography, ion-exchange, deposition, diffusion. Process and device characterization. Packaging and environmental issues.

Applications: photonic switch matrices. Planar lightwave circuits, delay line circuits for antenna arrays, circuits for smart optical sensors. Optical signal processing and computing. Micro-opto-electro-mechanical systems. Photonic bandgap structures. VLSI photonics

T Srinivas/T Badarinarayana

Pollock, C.R., and Lip Son, M., Integrated Photonics, Kluwer Pub., 2003.

Tamir, T. (ed.), Guided-wave optoelectronics, Second Edn, Springer Verlag, 1990.

Nishihara, H., Haruna, M., and Suhara, T., Optical Integrated Circuits, McGraw Hill, 1988.

Murphy, E.J. (ed.), Integrated Optical Circuits and Components: Design and Applications, Marcel and Dekker, 1999.

Current literature: Special issues of journals and review articles.

E7 213 (AUG) 3:0

Introduction to Photonics

This is a foundation level optics course which intends to prepare students to pursue advanced topics in more specialized areas of optics such as biophotonics, nanophotonics, non-linear optics etc.

Classical and quantum descriptions of light, diffraction, interference, polarization. Fourier optics, holography, imaging, anisotropic materials, optical modulation, waveguides and fiber optics, coherence and lasers, plasmonics.

Manoj Varma/Ambarish Ghosh

Saleh, B., and Teich, M., Fundamentals of Photonics, Wiley & Sons, 1991.

Hecht, E., Optics, Addison Wesley, 2001.

E7 221 (AUG) 2:1

Fiber Optic Communication

Introduction to fiber optics, light propagation. Optical fibers, modes, dispersion, low, nonlinear effects. Optical transmitters: LEDs, Semiconductor Lasers, Transmitter design. Optical receivers: photo-detectors, receiver design, noise, sensitivity. System design and performance: voice, video, data transmission, analog and digital systems, standards.

Broadband local area optical networks and WDM systems, coherent communication systems, long distance telecommunications using optical amplifiers and solitons. Introduction to topics of current interest: all optical networks, integrated optics, MOEMS. Microwave photonics.

Experiments on characteristics of optical fibers, sources and detectors, analog and digital link, WDM system, tutorial on optical fiber system design, simulation of optical fiber modes.

T Srinivas/E S Shivaleela

Selvarajan, A., Kar, S., and Srinivas, T., Optical Fiber Communications: Principles and Systems, Tata McGraw Hill, 2002.

Keiser, G., Optical Fiber Communications, Second Edn, McGraw Hill, 1991.

Kaminov, I.P., and Koch, T.L., Optical Fiber Telecommunications IIIA and IIIB, Academic Press, 1997.

E7 231 (JAN) 3:0

Fiber-Optic Networks

Introduction to Fiber-optic networks, components for optical networks. Broadcast and select networks, wavelength routing networks, virtual topology design. Control and Management. Access networks, deployment considerations, photonics switching. Recent developments and futuristic issues.

T Srinivas/E S Shivaleela

Prerequisite: E7 221 or equivalent

Ramaswami, R., and Sivarajan, K.N., Optical Networks: A practical Perspective, Second Edn, Morgan Kufmann Publishers, 2002.

Kattalopoulos, S.V., Introduction to DWDM Technology, IEEE Press, 2000.

Current literature: special issues of journals and review articles.

E7 312 (JAN) 3:0

Selected Topics in Photonics

This course surveys important current topic in photonics research through lectures and seminars.

We will cover selected topics in the following areas: plasmonics, metamaterials, photonic crystals, optical tweezers, nonlinear optics, sub-diffraction limit optical imaging and quantum optics.

Manoj Varma/Ambarish Ghosh

Reviews and research articles