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M.Sc. in MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
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MEMY-490
Photonic Materials and Devices

Course Type
Elective
Semester
Second
ECTS Credits
7

Syllabus

Photonic Materials and Devices

Light and matter
Light waves, absorption and emission, optical properties of matter.
Modern lasers
Operation principles, new technologies and applications.
Optics of short laser pulses
Theory and applications.
Nonlinear optics
Materials, systems and spatio-temporal phenomena.
Optical fibers and telecommunications
Optical fibers – telecommunications.
Photonic crystals
Photonic crystals.
Metamaterials
Metamaterials.
Terahertz photonics
Terahertz photonics.

Learning Outcomes

Elective postgraduate course that gives a broad view of the field of Photonics, with emphasis on modern applications, like in telecommunications and nano-photonics.

Suggested Bibliography

  1. Fundamentals of Photonics, B.E.A. Saleh and M.C. Teich, 2nd edition, Wiley.
  2. Photonics, A. Yariv and P. Yeh, 6th edition, Oxford University Press.
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