Optical waveguides
- Planar dielectric waveguides
- Loss mechanisms, propagation and insertion loss
- Waveguide design (using the Lumerical software package)
- Planar waveguide fabrication
- Passive device characterisation
Optical fibres
- Step index fibre theory
- Gradient index fibre theory
- Optical fibre fabrication
- Optical fibre attenuation
- Optical fibre dispersion
Passive optical devices
- Couplers
- Splitters
- Filters
- Interferometers
- Resonators
- Multiplexers
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Teaching will consist of lectures, laboratory, tutorial, and feedback sessions. The lecturers will use electronic voting systems for in-class testing and peer instruction learning. Students will learn basics of photonic modelling software packages and will characterise the designed photonics devices in a photonic laboratory.
