Tentative Course Outline

Week Topic Instructor Assignments

1 Class Overview, Introduction
Aug 30 Maxwell Equations
Boundary conditions, Dispersion
2 and lossy plane waves
Sep 4/6 Material Dispersion, Lorentz model,
Optical properties of Semiconductors and Insulators
3 Optical Properties of Metal (and conductors)
HW #1
Sep 11/13 SPP dispersion
4 Diffraction Limit, FT, SPP excitation
Sep 18/20 SPP excitation
5 SPP propagation, Chip-scale SPR
Sep 25/27 9: Dielectric particles, metallic particles
6 Intro to Photonic Crystals, Band diagram
HW #2
Oct 2/4 1D PC, Transfer Matrix
Omnidirectional reflectors and Fibers, 2D PC
7
2D PC, Spatial dispersion, Super-prism, HW #3
Oct 9/11
Self-Collimation, Negative index (HW#2 due)
2D PC slabs, PC fibers, waveguides, surface/defect
8 18th (330pm ETC 5.148) Modeling nanophotonic HW #4
Oct 16/18 devices (Project #1)
Review (HW#3 due)
9 ***Midterm*** HW #5
Oct 23/25 (class video on blackboard) (Project #2)

10 PC resonator, Scattering Matrix,

Temporal coupled-mode theory (CMT) HW #6
Oct
(Project #3)
30/Nov 1 CMT, Fano Resonance, Extraordinary transmission HW#4 due
3D PC, Photonic circuits, Whispering Gallery
11 mode, Ring resonators. Nanoscale WG and tapers
Nov 6/8
Stress, Optical Force, MST, Lorentz force HW#5 due
12 Optomechanics, RTOF
Nov 13/15 Emerging plasmonic app, Optical antennas HW#6 due
 13 Purcell effect, NSOM, super-resolution imaging
Nov 20/22 (Thanksgiving) -

14 Graphene optics I
Nov 27/29 Graphene optics II
15
Final Presentations -
Dec 4/6
Finals Final report
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Dec 16 due