Lecture notes
Lecture slides will be uploaded at the end of each week.
Week 1, Optical Processes and Semiconductor Optics [DH]
Week 1, Mon: Band structure, Fermi distribution, Density of States (DOS) etc
Week 1, Thu: Transitions, Optical Joint DOS etc
Week 2, Semionductor Photon Sources [DH]
Week 2, Mon: Light Emitting Diodes and Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers
Week 2, Thu: Laser Diodes
Week 3, Fiber Waveguides [CA]
Week 3, Guided wave optics
Week 3, Fiber Optics
Week 4, Semionductor Photon Detectors [DH]
Week 4, Mon: Photodiodes
Week 4, Thu: Noise and avalanche photodiodes
Week 5, Fiber Commuication [CA]
Week 5, Attenuation, Dispersion, and Optical Amplifiers
Week 5, Interconnects Switches
Week 6, Optoelectronic Devices [DH]
Week 6 Mon: Cameras
Texts on imaging devices:
Chapter 5 from Image Acquisition and Preprocessing for Machine Vision Systems by P. K. Sinha (requireslogin to LU network)
Week 6 Thu: Photovoltaics
Week 7, Coherent communication [CA]
Mon: Optical fiber communication and Scaling of optical Networks