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