Integrated Photonics Circuits

Course Description

Target Audience

This course is targeted for students, researchers, and engineers in industry, who want to learn both the fundamental and applied aspects of integrated photonics circuits.

Description

In this course you will learn photonic integrated devices from fundamentals to device layout. You will learn, hands-on, how to design a photonic integrated circuit and create a layout suitable for fabrication at a professional foundry using Synopsys Software.

The first week of the course covers the fundamentals of optical waveguides, how they can be used to create passive and active components for photonic integrated circuits, and the application of photonic integrated circuits to sensing. The second week of the course will teach students how to design, model, and generate a layout of photonic integrated circuits. The course starts from individual waveguides and waveguide bends all the way to a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The students will learn to use a commercial software package and learn the basic aspects of computer-aided design of integrated photonics circuits.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with optics and electromagnetics is a prerequisite. It is assumed that each attendee has taken a course on physical optics or electromagnetic theory in the past. However, no previous knowledge of integrated photonics or optical waveguides is required.

Please note: The course descriptions and instructors listed below are NOT final, it is possible that circumstances beyond our control could necessitate alterations.

2023: offered remotely from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily

June 5, Monday

Waveguide Theory, Professor Pablo Postigo (Rochester)

June 6, Tuesday

Passive Devices, Professor Pablo Postigo (Rochester)

June 7, Wednesday

PIC Sensors, Professor Ben Miller (Rochester)

June 8, Thursday

Quantum Photonics, Professor A. Dutt (RIT)

June 9, Friday

Design Basics, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)

June 12, Monday

Design Basics, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)

June 13, Tuesday

Advance Design, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)

June 14, Wednesday

Advanced Design/Photonic Circuit Simulation, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)

June 15, Thursday

Generating PIC CAD, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)

June 16, Friday

Modeling Si Modulator, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)