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EE 802 – Integrated Photonics<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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  • Review of Maxwell’s equations and wave propagation in dielectric media and interfaces. Planar and channel optical waveguides. Single-mode and multimode waveguide design principles. Effective index method. Rib\/ridge waveguides. Waveguide dispersion and confinement. Waveguide bends and radiation loss.<\/li>\n
  • Modal coupling in integrated waveguides. Coupled Mode Theory (co- and contra-directional coupling). Directional coupling in waveguides. Diffraction Grating in waveguides. Distributed Bragg Reflectors (DBR). Sub-wavelength engineered gratings. Resonant and periodic structures.<\/li>\n
  • Power splitting and coupling \u2014 Directional couplers (DC), Multi-Mode Interference (MMI) couplers. Mach-Zehnder Interferometers (MZI). Microring Resonators (MRR) and quality factor. Arrayed Waveguide Gratings (AWG). Optical filters and delay lines.<\/li>\n
  • Thermo-optic and electro-optic effects. Integrated phase shifters. High-speed optical modulators (carrier plasma effect, Pockels effect). Electro-optic Mach-Zehnder modulators. Integrated light sources: heterogeneous integration of III-V materials. Integrated photodetectors: PIN and APD structures. Performance parameters.<\/li>\n
  • Fiber-to-waveguide coupling. Vertical grating couplers. Edge coupling. Adiabatic mode-size converters. Alignment tolerances and packaging considerations. Electrical interfaces and RF considerations.<\/li>\n
  • Material platforms and fabrication technologies. Reconfigurable and programmable architectures. Optical nonlinearity in integrated photonics. Applications of Photonic Integrated Circuits.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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    1. Silicon Photonics Design: From Devices to Systems, Lukas Chrostowski and Michael Hochberg, Cambridge University Press.<\/li>\n
    2. Integrated Quantum Photonics, Krishna Thyagarajan, Springer, 2025.<\/li>\n
    3. Integrated Photonics: Fundamentals, Gin\u00e9s Lifante, John Wiley & Sons, 2003.<\/li>\n
    4. Integrated Photonics, Clifford R. Pollock and Michal Lipson, Springer, 2003.<\/li>\n
    5. Optical Integrated Circuits, H. Nishihara, M. Haruna, and T. Suhara, McGraw-Hill, 1988.<\/li>\n
    6. Integrated Optical Circuits and Components, Edmond J. Murphy, CRC Press, 1999.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nEE802 - Integrated Photonics – EE IIT Bombay<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ee.iitb.ac.in\/web\/course_lists\/ee802-integrated-photonics\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"EE802 - Integrated Photonics – EE IIT Bombay\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"EE 802 – Integrated Photonics Review of Maxwell’s equations and wave propagation in dielectric media and interfaces. 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