UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA College of Engineering Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences EECS 232: LIGHTWAVE DEVICES http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ee232/fa07/ Fall 2007 Prof. Ming C. Wu 261M Cory Hall, (510) 643-0808, [email protected] LECTURES Tuesday and Thursday – 9:30 to 11:00 am in 293 Cory OFFICE HOUR Thursday – 11:00 to 12:00 noon in 261M Cory TEXTBOOK S.L. Chuang, Physics of Optoelectronic Devices, John Wiley and Sons, 1995 REFERENCES (On reserve at Engineering Library) − Yariv & Yeh, Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications, Oxford University Press, 2006 − Coldren & Corzine, Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits, John Wiley & Sons, 1995 − Saleh & Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, John Wiley & Sons, 1991 [This is a great introductory textbook for a quick review of materials you are not familiar with.] COURSE OBJECTIVE − Develop a physical understanding of optoelectronic devices, including light-emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, photodetectors, modulators; − Acquire basic skills for analyzing and designing semiconductor optoelectronic devices. PREREQUISSITES − EECS 130: Simple p-n junction, semiconductor physics, concept of energy bands, Fermi levels. − PHYS 137A: recommended. Basic concept of quantum mechanics, perturbation theory − EECS 117: recommended. Concept of dielectric waveguide, electromagnetic waves. HOMEWORK Homework will be assigned every Thursday and due the following Thursday in class. Discussion and collaboration, as opposed to copying, is encouraged, but you must write your own derivations and do your own calculations. EXAM & GRADES Homework 30% 2 Midterms 20% + 20% Final Exam 30%EECS Department Policy on Academic Dishonesty: http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Policies/acad.dis.shtml TOPICS AND TENTATIVE SCHEDULE Week # Topics 1 Introduction to Optoelectronics (Chap. 1) Maxwell’s equations (§2.1); Semiconductor electronics (§2.2); 2 Basic quantum mechanics, square potential well (§3.1, 3.2); 3 Time-dependent perturbation theory; Fermi’s Golden Rule (§3.7); 4 Optical absorption (§9.1); Interband absorption and gain (§9.3) 5 Absorption and gain in quantum well structures (§9.4); 6 Intersubband absorption (§9.6); Double heterostructure lasers (§10.1); * <Midterm #1> 7 Optical waveguides, dispersion relations (§7.1, §7.6); Gain-guided and index-guided lasers (§10.2) 8 Quantum-well lasers (§10.3); Strain effects on band structures (§4.5); 9 Strained quantum-well lasers (§10.4); Distributed feedback lasers (§8.6 and §10.6); 10 Vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (§10.7); 11 Direct modulation of semiconductor lasers (§11.1); Rate equations * <Midterm #2> 12 Franz-Keldysh effect and excitons (§13.2, 13.3); Quantum confined Stark effect (§13.4); Electroabsorption modulators (§13.5); 13 Photodetectors (§14.1); p-i-n photodiodes (§14.2, 14.3); 14 Avalanche photodiode (APD) (§14.4) Intersubband photodetectors (§14.5) 15 Review/Discussions * Final Exam 3-hour final exam (time and place
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