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Amazon logo Readings are from Saleh, B. E. A., and M. C. Teich. Fundamentals of Photonics. New York, NY: Wiley, 1991. ISBN: 9780471839651.


LEC #TOPICSREADINGSREFERENCES AND RESOURCES
1Optical Materials Design 1Chapter 5Glass, A. M. "Optical Materials." Science 235 (February 27, 1987): 1003-1009.

Kimerling, L. C. "Bands and Bonds." (PDF)

Handout: Materials Design by Property Maps (PDF)#

Periodic Table of the Elements

EM Teaching Tool: A Web site that shows dynamic visualization of electromagnetic (light) field profile as a function of wavelength.
2Optical Materials Design 2Chapter 5Berger, L. I., and B. R. Pamplin. "Properties of Semiconductors." CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. CRC Press LLC, 2000.

Glass, A. M. "Optical Materials." Science 235 (February 27, 1987): 1003-1009.

Kimerling, L. C. "Bands and Bonds." (PDF)

Villars, P. "A Three-Dimensional Structural Stability Diagram for 998 Binary AB Intermetallic Compounds." Journal of the Less-Common Metals 92 (1983): 215-238.
3System Design: TDM, WDMChapter 22Kartalopoulos, S. V. "Elastic Bandwidth: The Flexibility of DWDM in Handling Continually Increasing Bandwidth Demands for Future Optical-Fiber Communication Networks." IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine (January 2002): 8-13.

Supplemental Handouts (PDF)
4Ray Optics, EM Optics and Guided Wave OpticsChapter 6Griffiths, D. J. Introduction to Electrodynamics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998, chapters 4 and 8.

Haus, H. A. Waves and Fields in Optoelectronics. Chapeter 1.

Yeh, P. Optical Waves in Layered Media. New York, NY: Wiley, 2005, chapter 2.

Handout: Dielectric Response in an SiO2 Optical Fiber (PDF)
5Waveguide DesignChapters 7 and 8Glass, Alastair M., David J. DiGiovanni, Thomas A. Strasser, Andrew J. Stentz, Richard E. Slusher, Alice E. White, A Refik Kortan, and Benjamin J. Eggleton. "Advances in Fiber Optics." Bell Labs Technical Journal 5, no. 1 (January - March 2000): 168-187.

Amazon logo Hopper, F. "Basics on Optical Waveguides: Materials, Systems, and Technologies." Quaderni di Fotonica. Vol. 8, Societa italiana di ottica e fotonica, 2001, pp. 65-80. ISBN: 9788879571234. (PDF)# (Courtesy of Fred Hopper. Used with permission.)

Nagel, Suzanne R. "Optical Fiber - The Expanding Medium." IEEE Circuits and Devices Magazine (March 1989): 36-45.

Yeh, P. Optical Waves in Layered Media. New York, NY: Wiley, 2005, chapter 11.

Handout: 2D Approximation for Waveguide Effective Refractive Index neff (PDF)

Handout: Energy Conversion Chart (PDF) (Figure by MIT OCW.)

Handout: Waveguide Propagation Loss (PDF)
6WDM Filters: The Microcavity and the Ring ResonatorHaus, H. A. Waves and Fields in Optoelectronics. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1983, chapter 7.

Wippich, Mark, and Kathy Li Dessau. "Tunable Lasers and Fiber-Bragg-Grating Sensors." The Industrial Physicist (June/July 2003): 24-27.

Handout: Coupled Ring Resonators (PDF)

SiON Ring Resonators: IBM Zurich's online project overview for high WDM performance Silicon Oxynitride microrings.

III-V Microring Filters: An online presentation of the process flow to create micron-scale ring resonators out of In GaAsP material.
7Photonic CrystalsOullette, Jennifer. "Seeing the Future in Photonic Crystals." The Industrial Physicist (December 2001/January 2002): 14-17.

Yablonovitch, Eli. "Photonic Crystals: Semiconductors of Light." Scientific American (December 2001): 46-55.

Yeh, P. Optical Waves in Layered Media. New York, NY: Wiley, 2005, chapters 6 and 11.

Parker, G., and M. Charlton. "Photonic Crystals." (A Physics World online article introducing photonic crystal structures.)

Measuring Photonic Crystals: A Physics Web online news article about recent success in determining photonic crystal properties from direct experiment.
8Electrons in SemiconductorsChapters 9, 12, and 15Kressel, Henry, and J. K. Butler. "Resume of Relevant Concepts in Solid State Physics." Chapter 1 in Semiconductor Lasers and Heterojunction LEDs. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1977.

Pierret, R. F. "Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI: Advanced Semiconductor Device Fundamentals." Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1983.

Yu, P. Y., and M. Cardona. "Fundamentals of Semiconductors." New York, NY: Springer, 2005, chapters 7 and 9.

Bragg's Law: Wikipedia's online description of Bragg's Law. The schematics are very helpful for visualization of the concept, and its impact in X-ray crystallography.

Bragg Diffraction: Wikipedia's online description of Bragg Diffraction, the K-space visualization of Bragg's Law. This is very helping for better understanding Tool Box (12).
9Photons in Semiconductors and DielectricsChapters 9, 12, and 15Kressel, Henry, and J. K. Butler. "Resume of Relevant Concepts in Solid State Physics." Chapter 1 in Semiconductor Lasers and Heterojunction LEDs. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1977.

Pierret, R. F. "Modular Series on Solid State Devices, Volume VI: Advanced Semiconductor Device Fundamentals." Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1983.

Yu, P. Y., and M. Cardona. "Fundamentals of Semiconductors." New York, NY: Springer, 2005 chapters 7 and 9.

Fermi's Golden Rule: Wikipedia's online description of Fermi's Golden Rule. The "More information..." link takes you to another online detailed description.
Design Review 1
10LEDsChapters 15 and 16Craford, George M. "LEDs Challenge the Incandescents." IEEE Circuits and Devices 8, no. 5 (1992): 24-29.

Nakamura, S. "A Bright Future for Blue/Green LEDs." IEEE Circuits and Devices 11, no. 3 (May 1995): 19-23.

Amazon logo Coldren, L. A., and S. W. Corzine. Diode Lasers and Photonics Integrated Circuits. New York, NY: J. Wiley and Sons, 1995, chapters 1 and 4. ISBN: 9780471118756.
11Optical Amplifiers and LasersChapters 13 and 14Brinkman, William F., Thomas L. Koch, David V. Lang, and Daniel P. Wilt. "Lasers Behind the Communications Revolution." Bell Labs Technical Journal (January - March 2000): 150-167.

Ryan, James. "In Vending Machine, Brains that Tell Good Money from Bad." The New York Times, April 1999.

Amazon logo Coldren, L. A., and S. W. Corzine. Diode Lasers and Photonics Integrated Circuits. New York, NY: J. Wiley and Sons, 1995, chapters 2, 3, and 5. ISBN: 9780471118756.

Unger, P. "Introduction to Power Diode Lasers." High-Power Diode Lasers: Fundamentals, Technology, Applications (2000): 1-54. Contributions by Numerous Experts. Edited by Roland Diehl.

Amazon logo Zory, P. S., Jr., P. F. Liao, and P. Kelley, eds. Quantum Well Lasers. San Diego, CA: Elsevier, 1993, pp. 165-241. ISBN: 9780127818900.
12Crystal GrowthAlles, David S., and Kevin J. Brady. "Packaging Technology for III-V Photonic Devices and Integrated Circuits." AT&T Journal (January/February 1989): 83-92.

Clemans, Jim E., Theophilus I. Ejim, William A. Gault, and Eric M. Monberg. "Bulk III-V Compound Semiconductor Crystal Growth." AT&T Journal (January/February 1989): 29-42.

Dautremont-Smith, C. William, R. J. McCoy, Randolph H. Burton, and Albert G. Baca. "Fabrication Technologies for III-V Compound Semiconductor Photonic and Electronic Devices." AT&T Journal (January/February 1989): 64-82.

Johnston, W. Dexter, Jr., Michael A. Digiuseppe, and Daniel P. Wilt. "Liquid and Vapor Phase Growth of III-V Materials for Photonic Devices." AT&T Journal (January/February 1989): 53-63.

Kimerling, L. "Phase Transformations." (PDF)#

Panish, Mortan B. "Molecular-Beam Epitaxy." AT&T Journal (January/February 1989): 43-52.
13Nonlinear Optics and ModulatorsChapters 18, 19 and 31Amazon logo Boyd, R. W. Nonlinear Optics. 2nd ed. San Diego, CA: Elsevier, 2002. ISBN: 9780121216825.

Amazon logo Rosencher, E., and B. Vinter. Optoelectronics. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780521778138.
14Defects and StrainKimerling, L. C. "Defect Engineering." MRS Bulletin (December 1991): 42-47.

———. "Notes on Defects in Solids." (PDF)#

———. "The Influence of Electronic Excitation on the Performance and Reliability of Semiconductor Devices." Reviews of Solid State Science 4 (1990): 335-354.

Liu, Jifeng, et al. "Deformation potential constants of biaxially tensile stressed Ge epitaxial films on Si(100)." Physical Review B 70 (2004): 155-309.
15III-V ProcessingCho, Alfred. Y., and Alastair. M. Glass. "Photonic Materials and Processing." AT&T Technical Journal (November/December 1990): 77-91.

Fitzgerald, E. A. "In Search of Low-Dislocation-Density Hetero-Epitaxial Structures." Journal of Materials (April 1989): 20-24.
16Detectors 1Chapter 17
Design Review 2
17Detectors 2Giovane, Laura. Excerpt from thesis "The Role of Strain in Optical Properties of Semiconductors." (PDF)#
18Microphotonics 1Kimerling, L. C. "Silicon Microphotonics." (PDF)

Pavesi, L., and D. J. Lockwood, eds. Silicon Photonics. New York, NY: Springer, 2004, chapter 3.

Photonics (Wikipedia)

IBM Silicon Nanophotonics: IBM's Si photonics group at the T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights (NY).

Intel Silicon Photonics: Intel's Si Photonics group at the Intel Site, Santa Clara (CA).

Light Reading: Online resource for popular science articles about photonics.

Photonics.com: Online portal for popular articles and links to the global photonics community.
19Microphotonics 2Kimerling, L. C. "Silicon Microphotonics." (PDF)
20NanophotonicsPavesi, L., et al. "Optical gain in silicon nanocrystals." Nature 408 (2000): 440-444.

Zia, R., J. A. Schuler, A. Chandran, and M. L. Brongersma. "Plasmonics: The Next Chip-Scale Technology." Materials Today 9 (2006): 20.
Design Review 3 (Part 1), Real-Time Design Review 4 (Part 1)
Design Review 3 (Part 2), Real-Time Design Review 4 (Part 2)
21Photonics Toolkit
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