Description: Credit 4. Propagation in thin films and fibers; mode launching, coupling, and losses; sources, detectors,
 modulators, interferometers; fabrication and measurement techniques; and fiber optics systems. 

Prerequisites: ECE 520 

Recent Textbook: P. Yeh, Optical Waves in Layered Media, New York, New York: John Wiley and Sons Publishing
Company, 1988. 

Topics: 

• Dielectric slab waveguide 
• Directional coupler 
• Step-index and graded-index cylindrical fibers 
• Anisotropic waveguides 
• Coupling mode theory 
• Numerical techniques for model analysis 
• Mode launching 
• Losses 
• Semiconductor optical sources 
• Detectors 
• Integrated optical devices 
• Fabrication, measurement and testing