Theory and Design of Phase-locked Loops
Event no:
L.048.26013
Event type:
Lecture V2, Exercise Ü2
Credit points:
6
Time mode:
Winter term
Time and place:
For information on the venue and time of the event, please refer to PAUL
Brief description
This lecture discusses the working and fundamental theory of integrated photonic devices, constraints involved in the device designs and overcoming strategies.
Pre-requisites
Knowledge on electromagnetic fields and waves
Experience with MATLAB/Python scripting would be beneficial
Contents:
Introduction
Historical evolution of integrated photonics and relevance in today’s world
Brief overview on the required background theory
Electromagnetic waves and Maxwell’s equations
EM waves propagation in different media
Theory of optical waveguides: Device #0
1-D waveguide analysis
Ray optics model
Vector wave equation and boundary conditions
2-D waveguide analysis
Overview of waveguide platforms and effective index method
Overview of the full vectorial method
Dispersion, polarization and orthogonality of guided modes
Coupled-mode theory: analytical formulation
Passive integrated photonic devices
Directional coupler (DC): Device #1
Multi-mode interferometers (MMI): Device #2
Distributed Bragg reflector (DBR): Device #3
Tunable/active integrated photonic devices
Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) / modulator (MZM): Device #4
Microring resonators (MRR) / modulator (MRM): Device #5
Overview of phase shifters: thermal, electro-optic and MEMS-based
Fabrication variability and tolerances of the integrated photonic devices
Overview of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) analysis, introduction to compact-modeling and electronic-photonic design automation (EPDA)
Literature:
Graham T. Reed, “Silicon Photonics: the state of the art”, Wiley, 4th edition, 2008
Chrostowski, Lukas, and Michael Hochberg. “Silicon photonics design: from devices to systems”. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
More references will be listed in the lecture notes
