ECE 754 / Modeling and Simulation of Photonic Devices and Circuits I (Passive Devices and Circuits)

3 unit(s)

W.P. Huang

Photonic devices and circuits are key components used for lightwave generation, amplification, transmission and detection in communication systems and networks. Photonic devices and circuits that utilize primarily photons, in conjunction with electrons can offer the tremendous bandwidth which is the key to a variety of applications, especially broadband communication systems and networks. This course will focus on the modeling of passive device physics through numerical approaches, the simulation of device terminal performances through mixed analytical and numerical methods and the extraction of device behaviour models. This course will also cover circuit level simulation for a variety of monolithic or hybrid integrated photonic circuits constructed on those devices.