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

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