Nanophotonics
Goals
Significant advances have been achieved in Photonics, for light emission, processing, transport and detection, with implications in a wide range of application areas. Progress related to fabrication, which leverage the microelectronics infrastructure and expertise regarding the realization of micrometer scale devices, has enabled the implementation of new concepts of integrated optics for the control of light, which are now commonly used. Current research is very active in the field of sub-micrometer devices, such as photonic crystals, and will benefit to key application areas: information and communications, biology, energy. The aim of this course is to give the physics background underpinning these new technologies, for understanding a more specialized literature.
Programme
Polarization of light Planar guided wave optics Integrated Optics & Fiber Optics Nonlinear optics: Kerr effect, frequency doubling, wavelength conversion. Photonic crystals (using simulations) Perspectives and Applications
2 Lab works: Finite Difference Time Domain » simulation of integrated optics devices, Transmission of a signal using electro optic modulation 1 tutorial: Non linear Optics for wavelength conversion
Sustainable development
Sustainable Development Goals
DD&RS level 1
Activity contextualised through environmentally sustainable development and social responsibility and/or supported by examples, exercises, applications.
Programme elements related to sustainable development goals
Possibilities of optimising the energy efficiency of some optoelectronic devices (LEDs, solar cells) by patterning materials at sub-micrometre scales. Presentation of physical mechanisms (non-linear optics) that could underpin high-speed information and communication infrastructures with reasonable power consumption. Possibilities of optimising the detection threshold of optical devices (sensors) by periodically patterning matter.
Responsibles
- Emmanuel DROUARD
- Christelle MONAT