EE 599-003: Nanophotonics

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Tenative Course Schedule and Class Notes

Date	Topic
08/26/09	Introduction and Overview
08/28/09	Electromagnetics Review/Primer
08/31/09	Optical Materials: Properties and Models
09/02/09	Reflection and Refraction, T-Matricies for Thin Films, Total Internal Reflection
09/04/09
09/07/09	Class does not meet
09/09/09	T-Matricies for Thin Films, Total Internal Reflection (continued)
09/11/09	Guided Wave Optics: Dielectric Waveguides - 1D
09/14/09	Guided Wave Optics: Dielectric Waveguides - 2D
09/16/09	Numerical Methods for Photonics
09/18/09	Guided Wave Optics: Bends, Couplers, and Filters
09/21/09	Guided Wave Optics: Bends, Couplers, and Filters (continued)
09/23/09	Guided Wave Optics: Bragg Gratings
09/25/09	Guided Wave Optics: Resonators
09/28/09	Resonant Structures Continued
09/30/09	Review 1
10/02/09	Exam 1
10/05/09	Integrated Optical Interferometers
10/07/09	Integrated Optical Interferometers (continued)
10/09/09	Electrooptics (Modulators and Switches)
10/12/09	Introduction to Photonic Crystals
10/14/09	Photonic Crystal Waveguides
10/16/09	Photonic Cyrstal Devices
10/19/09	Intro to surface plasmons, surface-plasmons on thin films
10/21/09	Exciting surface plasmons, Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors
10/23/09	Project Information and Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors Continued
10/26/09	Class does not meet
10/28/09	Localized Surface Plasmons I
10/30/09	Localized Surface Plasmons II
11/02/09	Localized Surface Plasmons Continued
11/04/09	Review 2
11/06/09	Exam 2
11/09/09	Nanoscale optical materials: Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots
11/11/09	Nanoscale optical materials: Quantum Wells, Wires and Dots - Part 2
11/13/09	Applications of Quantum Confined Structure
11/16/09	Nanoscale Optical Lithography
11/18/09	Nanoscale Optical Microscopy
11/20/09	Extraordinary Optical Transmission
11/23/09	Nanoscale optical materials: Metamaterials
11/25/09	Class does not meet
11/27/09	Class does not meet
11/30/09	Nanoscale optical materials, negative refraction, cloaking
12/02/09	Nanoscale optical materials, negative refraction, cloaking
12/04/09	Presentations
12/07/09	Class does not meet
12/09/09	Presentations
12/11/09	Presentations

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