ENEE 738 - Characteristics of Semi-conductor Opto-electronics

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Introduction to current semi-conductor opto-electronic devices and survey of new research results: review of semi-conductor physics and device characteristics; optical receiver concepts, such as photo-conductors, metal semi-conductor concepts, MSM, pin, receiver design and APD; waveguide concepts, such as waveguide devices, waveguide modes, waveguide couplers, EO effects and modulation, periodic waveguides, polarization devices, waveguide filters, BPM and LED amplifier; and laser concepts, such as edge/surface emitting, optical gain, traveling wave amplifiers, FP, DFB, DBR, QW lasers, active filters, small-signal modulation, mode-locking, line width and noise.
Prerequisite: Prerequisites: ENEE 630, ENEE 631, ENEE 680 and ENEE 683 or consent of instructor.