The students are expected to acquire both some fundamental knowledge regarding basic nanophotonics concepts (how to trap, guide, generate and extract light at the micro/nanoscale) as well as some expertise on how to implement them for applications in various fields (telecommunications, life science, solar energy harvesting and lightning). Both tutorials and practicals should also help the students to become familiar with standard simulation tools or some experimental characterization techniques and technologies that are used in the micro/ nanophotonics field.
This course includes both some fundamental content and application oriented courses related to nanophotonics, as per the following program: -Introduction/ reminders on light-matter interaction -Light confinement at the microscale/ micro-cavities -Microlasers -Optical waveguides -Plasmonics -Biophotonics -Nanophotonics for light trapping and extraction -Nonlinear optics Half of the courses will be dedicated to introduce and explain the basic concepts underlying the generation, manipulation, guiding, extraction and confinement of light at the micro- and nanoscale. This will include some lectures on optical microcavities, micro/nanolasers, optical waveguides, and plasmonics. Tutorials will be organized in link with the lectures on plasmonics, microlasers, and photonic crystals. The other half of the courses and related tutorials will present some applications of these concepts for biosensing, photonic integrated circuits, as well as light trapping and extraction for solar energy harvesting and lightning.
4 practicals are organized, enabling the students to get some expertise on both simulation and experimental aspects (Erbium doped fiber amplifiers, and sol-gel photonic crystal fabrication) of micro/ nanophotonics technologies. At least 2h of seminars from industry representatives (Thalès, CEA, ST…) are also included in the program to give a broader and industrial perspective of the potential of nanophotonic technologies.