Photonics Lectures 2021-2022
0
Slides
5/10/2021
Introduction to the course
1
YY 1,0-5
8/10/2021
Maxwell Equations, energy density and Poynting vector
2
Slides
11/10/2021
Wave packet: group velocity and group velocity dispersion; Propagation in anisotropic media: natural birefringence
3
JJ pp. 6-12, 22-24
13/10/2021
Light propagation in periodic media (1)
4
JJ pp. 44-61
18/10/2021
Photonic Crystals
5
Notes + arXiv 2110.04340 + PRE 69, 016604 (2004)
20/10/2021
Quantization of the electromagnetic field
6
Notes + Loudon Ch. 5*
22/10/2021
Single-mode quantum states
7
YY 3.0-3.2 + Notes + Slides
25/10/2021
Light propagation in dielectric slab waveguides
8
YY 3.3, JJ 58-61, Aurelio PRB 2017+ Notes
27/10/2021
Asymmetric slab waveguides, slot, waveguides, Bragg waveguides and BSW
9
YY 3.3-3.5 , JJ pp 156-161 +Notes
03/11/2021
Optical fibers, Ridge waveguide, PhC fibers
10
Note+Slides+ YY 3.6 + Liscidini JOSAB 2012
17/11/2021
Hybrid systems + Losses
11
Notes + YY 12.4
19/11/2021
Coupled mode theory
12
Notes + YY 4.9
22/11/2021
Coupled mode theory (2) + Transfer Matrix Method
13
Notes + YY 4.0-4.1, YY 12.3
24/11/2021
Fabry-Pérot resonator and planar microcavity
14
YY 4.8 + Notes+ Slides
29/11/2021
Ring resonators, microdisks, micropillars
15
Notes
01/12/2021
PhC cavities, spontaneous emission
16
YQE 8.1-8.2, pp. 157-164
06/12/2021
Two-level system, atomic susceptibility
17
YQE 8.3-8.6 + Notes
13/12/2021
Spontaneous emission and induced transitions, gain broadening, LASER oscillations
18
YQE 9.1,9.3 + Notes
15/12/2021
Frequency pulling, rate equations, output power from a LASER
19
YQE 20.1-20.2 (main concepts) + Notes
17/12/2021
LASER dynamical behaviour, LASER systems
20
YY 8.0-3 +Notes +Slides
20/12/2021
Introduction to nonlinear optics
21
YY 8.4 + Notes + Slides
22/12/2021
Second harmonic generation, OPO, OPA
22
YY 8.6 (first part), YY 8.8, YY 14.1
10/01/2022
Third-order nonlinear processes, Kerr effect, SPM, XPM, and TPA
23
Slides + Notes
12/01/2022
Generation of nonclassical light via parametric fluorescence
24
Slides + Notes
17/1/2022
Qubit encoding with photons