Description:

Description of the most important integrated-optical components and devices for applications in optical communication and sensing. Theoretical backgrounds, numerical modelling and fabrication technology. Physical principles of passive, dynamic (externally controllable), active (amplifying) and optically nonlinear integrated photonic devices. Contemporary trends of their development: silicon photonics, photonic crystals, plasmonics.

Contents:

1.Introduction. Electromagnetic theory of planar and channel optical waveguides. Methods of calculation of eigenmodes. Radiation from waveguide bends.Eigenmodes of curved waveguides.
2."Beam propagation methods?. Fourier transform BPM, mode expansion propagation methods. Commercial software packets.
3.Introduction into fabrication technology of integrated photonics. Material bases: glass, silica-on-silicon, LiNbO3, semiconductors A3B5, SOI (silicon on insulator).
4.Charakterization methods for optical waveguides. Prism and grating coupling, mode spectroscopy of planar waveguides. Mode field distribution measurement. Loss measurement in planar and channel waveguides, method of Fabry-Perot resonances. Group index measurement. Application of SNOM.
5.Overview of basic physical effect utilized in integrated photonic devices. Thermo-optic, electro-optic, acousto-optic, magneto-optic and nonlinear optical effects. Plasma dispersion effects, Franz-Keldysh effect, electrorefraction and electroabsorption. Quantum confined Stark effect.
6.Passive integrated optical devices (power splitters, polarizers and polarization splitters, spectral de/multiplexors). Dynamic devices - modulators, tunable filters, polarization convertors. Er3+-doped and Raman optical waveguide amplifiers and lasers.
7.High-contrast devices, microresonator-based devices, silicon photonics.
8.Theoretical fundamentals of photonic crystals. Waveguides and microcavities in 2D photonic crystals. Fundamentals of plasmonics.
9. Applications of integrated photonics in information technologies and sensing.

Recommended literature:

Key references:
[1] Copies of presentations from lectures: www.ufe.cz/~ctyroky/fjfi/into
Recommended references:
[2] T. Tamir, ed.: Guided-wave optoelectronics, Springer, 1988
[3] D. L. Lee: Electromagnetic Principles of Integrated Optics, John Wiley and Sons, 1986.
[4] E.J.Murphy, ed.: Integrated optical circuits and components, Dekker, New York 1999.
[5] B. E. A. Saleh, M. C. Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, John Wiley and Sons, 1991.
[6] J. D. Joannopoulos, R. D. Meade, J. N.Winn, Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light. Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995.
[7] K. Okamoto: Fundamentals of Optical Waveguides, Academic Press, 2005.

Keywords:

Integrated optics (integrated photonics), optical waveguides, optical communications, optical sensors, silicon photonics, photonic crystals, plasmonics.

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar