Fall 2024 Electrical Engineering E4411 section 001

FUNDAMENTALS OF PHOTONICS

Call Number 15927
Day & Time
Location
W 4:10pm-6:40pm
331 Uris Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Michal Lipson
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description

Planar resonators. Photons and photon streams. Photons and atoms: energy levels and band structure; interactions of photons with matter; absorption, stimulated and spontaneous emission; thermal light, luminescence light. Laser amplifiers: gain, saturation, and phase shift; rate equations; pumping. Lasers: theory of oscillation; laser output characteristics. Photons in semiconductors: generation, recombination, and injection; heterostructures; absorption and gain coefficients. Semiconductor photon sources: LEDs; semiconductor optical amplifiers; homojunction and heterojunction laser diodes. Semiconductor photon detectors: p-n, p-i-n, and heterostructure photo diodes; avalanche photodiodes.

Web Site Vergil
Department Electrical Engineering
Enrollment 35 students (50 max) as of 9:05PM Thursday, January 2, 2025
Subject Electrical Engineering
Number E4411
Section 001
Division School of Engineering and Applied Science: Graduate
Open To Barnard College, Columbia College, Engineering:Undergraduate, Engineering:Graduate, GSAS, General Studies
Section key 20243ELEN4411E001