PIC Course University of Vigo
10:00 – 15/09/2020
1.1 Photonic design and software tools
- Introduction & PIC design flow
- Modelling methods (mode solving, propagation, others)
- Circuit simulation
- Software tools
10:00 – 29/09/2020
1.2 Waveguides
- Basic Concepts
- What is the light?
- What is a wave?
- Can we guide the light?
- Integrated optics
- What is a mode?
- Waveguide types
- Refractive index
- Mode properties
- Polarization
- Propagation losses
- Bending losses
10:00 – 06/10/2020
1.3 In/out couplers
- Introduction
- Y-junction
- Directional couplers
- Multimode interferometer
10:00 – 13/10/2020
1.4 Waveguide splitters and couplers
- Introduction
- Y-junction
- Directional couplers
- Multimode interferometer
10:00 – 20/10/2020
1.5 Interferometers
- Basic Concepts
- What is interference?
- What is the phase of a wave?
- What is the propagation constant?
- What is the FSR?
- Types of interferometers
- Fabry-Pérot Interferometer
- Sagnac Interferometer
- Michelson Interferometer
- Mach–Zehnder Interferometer
10:00 – 27/10/2020
1.6 Waveguide filters
- Introduction
- Arrayed waveguide grating (AWG)
- Gratings
- Echelle grating
- Ring resonators
10:00 – 03/11/2020
1.7 Polarization: Rotation and splitting in waveguides
- Introduction
- Polarization of light
- Superposition
- Polarization in waveguides
- Polarization filters in PICs
- Polarization rotator in PICs
10:00 – 10/11/2020
1.8 PIC applications: communications
- Long haul coherent communications
- Datacenter transceivers
10:00 – 24/11/2020
1.9 PIC applications: biophotonics
- Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)
- Biosensing
10:00 – 01/12/2020
1.10 PIC applications: Signal processing
- LIDAR
- Quantum optics
