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Week of

Topics

1

8/29

Introduction to Optoelectronics (Chap. 1)
Maxwell’s equations (§2.1);
Semiconductor electronics (§2.2);

2

9/5

<9/5: Labor Day>
Basic quantum mechanics, square potential well (§3.1, 3.2);

3

9/12

Time-dependent perturbation theory;
Fermi’s Golden Rule (§3.7);
Optical absorption (§9.1)

4

9/19

Optical absorption (continued, §9.1);
Interband absorption and gain (§9.3)

5

9/26

Absorption and gain in quantum well structures (§9.4);
Intersubband absorption (§9.6);

6

10/3

Double heterostructure lasers (§10.1);
Optical waveguides, dispersion relations (§7.1);
Wave guidance in gain and lossy media (§7.6);

7

10/10

<Midterm #1 on 10/10, Covers materials up to Week 5>

Gain-guided and index-guided lasers (§10.2)

8

10/17

Quantum-well lasers (§10.3);
Scaling laws;

9

10/24

Strain effects on band structures (§4.5);
Strained quantum-well lasers (§10.4);

10

10/31

Distributed feedback lasers (§8.6 and §10.6);
Vertical cavity surface-emitting lasers (§10.7);

11

11/7

Direct modulation of semiconductor lasers (§11.1);
<Midterm #2 on 11/9: Covers materials up to Week #10>

12

11/14

Franz-Keldysh effect and excitons (§13.2, 13.3);
Quantum confined Stark effect (§13.4);

13

11/21

Electroabsorption modulators (§13.5);
Photodetectors (§14.1);
p-i-n photodiodes (§14.2, 14.3);

14

11/28

Avalanche photodiode (APD) (§14.4)
Intersubband photodetectors (§14.5)

15

12/5

Review/Discussions

12/7

<Final Exam on 12/7: Covers all materials>