Course No：11120071
Title：Optoelectronics
Class Hours/Week: 2.5 - 1 Credit：3.0
Category：Specialty
Prerequisites：Applied Optics，Physical Optics
Audience：Undergraduates
Teaching manner：Classroom instruction and labs
Course objectives and basic requirements:
This course instructs the students in technical knowledge and training in the optoelectronics field, so as to improve their technical background and engineering skills. In this course students will learn the concepts of semiconductors, theories of laser amplifiers and laser oscillation, typical laser technology, guide-wave and optical fiber, principles of nonlinear optics, and the characteristics of the optoelectronics system. Through the course, the students can be trained and have some ability to do research and develop work in the optoelectronics technology field.
Course introduction:
The course comprises the primary concepts and theory of optoelectronics, including semiconductor physics, laser theory and technology, wave-guide optics and nonlinear optics. The semiconductor physics covers the contents of photons in semiconductors, light-emitting diodes, semiconductors. The laser theory and technology covers the contents of Gaussian beam optics, resonator optics, laser amplifier and oscillation, typical lasers, electro-optics and acousto-optics. The wave-guide optics includes planar wave-guide and finer optics. The nonlinear optics includes nonlinear opticsl media and second-order nonlinear optics.
Syllabus and lecture schedule:
Chapter 1 Gaussian beam and resonator optics 4 class hours
§1-1 Introduction of optoelectronics
§1-2 Solution of Gaussian beam and transmission through optical components
§1-3 Characteristics of resonator and confinement condition
Chapter 2 Laser amplifiers 6 class hours
§2-1 Concept of energy leval, thermal light
§2-2 Interactions of photos and atoms
§2-3 Theory of laser amplifiers
§2-4 Rate equations
§2-5 Amplifiers Nonlinearity and gain saturation
Chapter 3 Lasers 8 class hours
§3-1 Theory of laser oscillation
§3-2 Characteristics of laser output
§3-3 Mode selection
§3-4 Pulsed lasers
§3-5 Q-switching
§3-6 Mode locking
§3-7 typical lasers
Chapter 4 Semiconductors 8 class hours
§4-1 Concepts of semiconductors
§4-2 Semiconducting materials
§4-3 Interactions of Photos with Electrons and holes
§4-4 Light-emitting diodes
§4-5 Semiconductor laser amplifiers
§4-6 Semiconductor injecting lasers
§4-7 Typical semiconductor lasers
Chapter 5 Guide-wave optics 4 class hours
§5-1 Planar dielectric waveguides
§5-2 Optical coupling in waveguides
§5-3 Step-index fibers
§5-4 Graded-index fibers
Chapter 6 Optical modulate 4 class hours
§6-1 Principles of Electro-optics
§6-2 Electro-optics of anisortropic media
§6-3 Interactions of light and sound
§6-4 Acousto-optics devices
Chapter 7 Nonlinear optics 4 class hours
§7-1 Nonlinear optical media
§7-2 The nolinear wave equation
§7-3 Second-order nonlinear effect
§7-4 Second-harmonic generation
Review and discussion 2 class hours
Related teaching sections:
Classroom instruction:40 class hours，including theoretical instruction, reports and discussion
Experiments：16 class hours
Measurement of He-Ne laser’s parmeters 4 class hours
Measurement of semiductors lasers’s parmeters 8 class hours
Build up the Nd:YVO4 laser and second-harmonic generation experiment 4 class hours
Test and Grading Criteria：
Exercise, final examination and experiment reports
Suggested textbooks or references:
1. 1. Bahaa E.A Saleh.《Fundamentals of Photonics》, Wiley-Interscience Publication，1991