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.
2024: Offered remotely as a complete series, registrations for individual lectures will not be permitted, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. daily
June 3, Monday
Waveguide Theory, Professor Pablo Postigo (Rochester)
June 4, Tuesday
PIC Sensors, Professor Ben Miller (Rochester)
June 5, Wednesday
Passive Devices, Professor Pablo Postigo (Rochester)
June 6, Thursday
Quantum Photonics, Professor A. Dutt (University of Maryland)
June 7, Friday
Design Basics, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)
June 10, Monday
Design Basics, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)
June 11, Tuesday
Advance Design, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)
June 12, Wednesday
Advanced Design/Photonic Circuit Simulation, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)
June 13, Thursday
Generating PIC CAD, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)
June 14, Friday
Modeling Si Modulator, Professor Jaime Cardenas (Rochester)