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Lesson Information

Course Credit
Course ECTS Credit
Teaching Language of Instruction İngilizce
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience?
Course Coordinator Assist. Prof. Dr. EYLEM GÜLCE ÇOKER
Instructor (s)
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course This course is designed to teach students waveguides and optical fibers, optical resonators, principles of laser action, light emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, other lasers, optical amplifiers, optical modulators and switches, photodetectors, wavelength-division-multiplexing , solar cell, and other optical devices.
Course Content Review of electromagnetic theory relevant to optoelectronics. Propagation of rays, spherical waves and Gaussian beams. Optical resonators. Modulation and detection of optical radiation. Noise in optical detection and generation. Interaction of light and sound. Lasers and laser applications. Fiber optics and applications.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Maxwell equations. Wave equation. Transverse electromagnetic waves and Poynting vector.
2Phase velocity. Group velocity. Boundary conditions for dielectric interfaces. Refraction. Reflection. Total internal reflection.
3Waveguides. Planar slab waveguide. Eigenvalues for the slab waveguide. Optical mode confinement. Dispersion in waveguides.
4Coupling of modes between waveguides. Coupling between optical sources and waveguides. Grating couplers. The coupling coefficient.
5Propagation optical fibers. Dispersion.
6The solitons in nonlinear fibers.
7Optical nonlinearities in semiconductors. Electro-optic modulators.
8MIDTERM
9Optical detectors. Photoconductive detectors. The p-i-n diode.
10Spectral characteristics. Noise. Avalanche photodiodes.
11Optical sources. Radiation and amplification. Optical gain. Optical amplifiers.
12Semiconductor lasers. Transparency and threshold current. Materials for semiconductor lasers.
13Electro-optic and opto-electric transducers. Optical bistability.
14Optoelectronic integrated circuits. Optical fiber telecommunication. Optical signal processing and computing.

Resources

1-Xun Li, McMaster University, Ontario, "Optoelectronic Devices, Design, Modeling, and Simulation", Cambridge University Press, October 2009.