Optoelectronic Devices (EE 383P) Course Format

COURSE: EE 383P UNIQUE #: 14990 TIME: M-W 10:00 11:30 CLASSROOM: ENS 126 INSTRUCTOR: Joe C. Campbell Office: ENS 413 & MER 2.606D Phone: 471-9669 office email: jcc@mail.utexas.edu Hours: M-W 8:00 10:00 ENS 413 Other times - MER 2.606D TEXT: "Fundamentals of Optoelectronics" Clifford Pollack, Irwin Press Supplementary texts on reserve in the Engineering Library (See list of books on reserve) Class Notes CLASS NOTES: (1) Almost all of the exam questions will come from the class notes. (2) A copy of my notes will be available on the WEB at imac1.mer.utexas.edu PREREQUISITES: Solid State Devices (EE339) or equivalent (definite). Some background in quantum mechanics and/or optics would be helpful but not absolutely necessary. GRADE: 200 Points - Two Semester Exams 100 Points - Out-of-class talk

100 Points - Homework 150 Points - Final Exam The final grades are determined just before I fill out the grade sheets. I look for distributions and consider those near the break points individually. Example: Last years' final grades.

EXAMS: Closed book - equation sheet provided - some fill in the blank or list-type questions and some numerical problems. (1) Graded anonymously (2) If a mistake in grading occurs please write a note explaining the situation and I will regrade the problem. (3) Example of one of last years' exams Exam #1: ~ February 19th or 21st Exam #2: ~ April 2nd or 4th No class February 19th and 21st (may do a makeup) Final Exam: May 15th 9:00am to 12:00pm ATTENDANCE: Attendance is not optional.

HOME WORK: (1)Limited number of assignments (6 to 8) (2) Home work is not optional (3) Home work is due at the beginning of class (4) Grader (5) No solutions will not be posted but I will try to post solutions on the WEB. Questions about grading should first be addressed to the grader. HANDOUTS: During the semester I will pass out supplemental material such as an article on the history of the invention of the laser. These articles are fair game for a simple question on the exam. I throw away the extra copies of the handouts so if you miss class, please contact another student for the notes. CHEATING: There is no excuse for cheating and it is ridiculous that we should have to discuss it. With regard to homework, the problems are a

learning tool and some discussion about general approaches may be beneficial. However, direct duplication of another student's homework will incur my wrath. If I find any cheating on an exam, I promise to impose the maximum penalty permitted by the University. There will be no excuses accepted and no second chances. Copying previously published material is plagiarism. I have delt severely with plagiarism in the past and I will not tolerate it in this course. DROP POLICY: The fourth day of University classes in a long-session semester is the last day of the official add and drop period. After this official period for adds and drops, all course changes must be initiated with the student's academic dean and must have the approval of a departmental advisor and the dean's representative. Drops in the College of Engineering are not automatic, but require strong justification, usually from an unforseeable and non-academic circumstance. (In other words, dropping a class in the College of Engineering is most unusual... doing poorly or flunking out of school is not a justification for dropping a class.)

COURSE DESCRIPTION: In the next decade fiber optic systems and optoelectronic circuits will become core technologies for several key technical areas such as telecommunications, information processing, optical storage, and sensors. The widest deployment of fiber optics has, so far, been in the area of longdistance (> 5 miles) transmission by commercial telecommunications companies. For example, the present-generation long-haul transmission system in the United States is a 2.5 Gbit/s fiber optic network. In the near term, these systems will be upgraded to 10 GBit/s systems with advanced development of 40 Gbit/s systems currently in advanced development. In addition to long-haul applications, fiber optic technology is rapidly being incorporated into the local loop, into local area networks, and into connections between and within computers. Fiber optic technology relies on optoelectronic devices to generate, modulate, switch, and detect the optical signal. In this course we will develop the fundamentals of lasers and optoelectronic devices. This course will cover the primary components of a fiber optic system, namely, optical fibers, emitters (semiconductor lasers and light emitting diodes), and photodetectors. I will also try to provide an overview of the characteristics and underlying physics of guided wave devices and optoelectronic integrated circuits. EE 383P Optoelectronic Devices Lecture #1 - Overview Lectures #2 to #6 - Optical Fibers Theory of Dielectric Waveguides Attenuation Dispersion Fabrication Techniques Splices and Connectors (probably assigned reading) Lectures #7 to #16 - Emitters Heterojunctions

Current Injection Carrier Confinement Light Emitting Diodes Critical Parameters State-of-the-art Devices Communications Displays - particularly blue LEDs Optical Amplifiers Semiconductor Lasers Optical Gain Threshold Condition Device Characteristics Structures LI Characteristic Field Intensity Mode Structure Output Power Linewidth - DFBs and DBRs Bandwidth Lecture #17 Modulators Lectures #18 and 19 WDM Devices MUX/DEMUX Optical add-drop Wavelength conversion Optical switching Lectures #20 to #23 - Photodetectors Physics of Photodetectors PIN Photodiodes Responsivity

Dark Current Bandwidth MSM Photodetectors Responsivity Bandwidth Avalanche Photodiodes Gain Mechanism Bandwidth and Gain-Bandwidth Product Multiplication Noise - Conventional Structures and Multiple Quantum Well APDs Integrated Waveguide/Photodetectors Advances in Photodetection Techniques

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Courses: EE 339 (or equivalent) _____ Quantum Mechanics ______ Optics______

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