Course Description

PC421 Photonics Devices W 0.5

Design and operation of modern optoelectronic devices. Some specific topics covered will be: general theory of determination band structure, optical modal gain and absorption in bulk and quantum well semiconductor heterostructures, double heterojunction semiconductor lasers, strained QW lasers, distributed-feedback lasers and VCSEL, highspeed modulation of semiconductor lasers, both small and large signals, including carrier transport effects, Franz-Keldysh effects and excitonic effects in bulk and QW semiconductors and electroabsorption modulators, interband and intersubband photo detectors.

Prerequisite: PC322, PC331, PC360, PC482.

Official electronic version updated at 4:25 p.m. December 18, 2003

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