OE 460 - Silicon Photonic Devices and Applications
- Credit Hours: 3.5R-1.5L-4C
- Term Available: F
- Graduate Studies Eligible: Yes
- Prerequisites: PH 292
- Corequisites: None
Energy bands in semiconductors, minority and majority carriers and n/p-type doping. PN-junction in semiconductors, free-carrier absorption and recombination, forward and reverse bias pn-junction diodes. Thermo-optic effect, Franz-Keldysh effect, and plasma dispersion effect in semiconductors. TE/TM-mode propagation in semiconductor waveguides. Modeling passive and active silicon photonic (SiPh) devices. Examples of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and applications. Fabrication of passive and active SiPh devices and PICs. Laboratory experiments will cover performance characterization of passive and active SiPh devices and PIC systems.