PH 5520 - MY 4710 SYLLABUS - Spring 2008

Photonics and Micromechanical Materials and Devices

 

Miguel Levy

Office: 115 Fisher Hall

mlevy@mtu.edu

(906) 487-2084                          Office Hours: MTh 12noon to 1pm                     Classes: MWF 2:05pm MSE U205

                                                            Make up classes: by arrangement, MSE U205

Textbook

Optical Waves in Crystals

A. Yariv and P. Yeh, John Wiley & Sons

            Reference

            Optical Integrated Circuits,

Nishihara, Haruna & Suhara (in Library Reference Section)

 

            Homeworks

            Solutions

 

 

Topics

 

Wk 1: Jan 14                 Optical Modulators and the Electro-Optic Effect – Index Ellipsoid – Sect 43.3 & Chapter 7

                       

            Wk 2: Jan 21                 MLK Recess Monday- Electro-Optic Effect and Materials– Chapter 7                                    

 

Wk 3: Jan 28                 Magneto-Optic Devices and the Faraday Effect – Sect 4.10

 

Wk 4: Feb 4                  WC Recess Friday – Magneto-Optics and Materials 

 

            Wk 5: Feb 11                Magnetism and Magneto-Optics

 

Wk 6: Feb 18                Exam 1  & Elasto-Optics and the Photoelastic Effect – Chapter 9                      

 

            Wk 7: Feb 25                Waveguide Optics – Chapter 11

 

Wk 8: Mar 3                 Waveguide Optics – Chapter 11                        

           

            Wk 9: Mar 10                Spring Break 

 

            Wk 10: Mar 17              Guided-Wave Excitation: Prism & End-Fire Coupling & Lab Demos

                                                                       

            Wk 11: Mar 24              Guided-Wave Excitation and Microfabrication Techniques & Lab Demo             

 

            Wk 12: Mar 31              Exam 2 & Photonic Crystals                            

 

            Wk 13: Apr 7                Photonic Crystals and Magneto-Photonic Crystals                                                          

 

            Wk 14: Apr 14              Symmetry and Band Structure in Photonic Crystals

           

            Wk 15: Apr 21              Piezoelectrics, Ferroelectrics & Micro-electromechanical Devices                                              

 

Wk 16: Apr 28              Final Exam Week

 

Grading:                        Problem Sets:                40%

                                    Hour Exams (2):            40%

Final:                            20%