Advanced Engineering Science II(Photonics and Opto-electronics)

http://www.ultrafast.ee.uec.ac.jp/ueno-classes.html

Modern photonics and electronics have been deeply spread to both academy and industry of our Real World, without country borders. It is because photonics and opto-electronics have realized terabit-per-second network infrastructures, optical-disk memories (DVD&CD's), compact and accurate laser diodes (from infrared to blue), and flat displays, in industry uses and home uses. In these science and technology, particle-based photonic properties of representative materials are almost always fully combined with their wave-based optical properties, in "bright" manners.
In this course, typically 15 weeks, participants are expected to study and understand the scientific fundamentals of these photonic technology, and also to develop interests to on-going, long-term (i.e. large-scale) R&D activities in our world.

fundamentals of electro-magnetic waves (propagating in speed of light).
fundamentals of electronics such as basic diodes and transistors.

fundamentals of quantum mechanics (particles and waves).
fundamentals of crystalline materials and their basic, electronic properties.

1) Saleh and Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, 2nd edition, Wiley, 2007.
2) Amnon Yariv and Pochi Yeh, Photonics: Optical Electronics in Modern Communications, 6th edition, Oxford, 2006.

1st-5th weeks:
(1) Areas of science and technology where photonics and opto-electronics play particularly important roles in our world.
(2) Representative photonic devices and materials that many of us must use and rely on, in these areas of science and technology.
(3) Fundamental properties of silicon and other few important types of semiconductor crystals. Basics of direct transition (for light-emitting diodes and lasers), in contrast to indirect transition (for sensors and solar cells, for example).
Then, basics of quantum-particle-based properties such as conservation laws in unit of electron-volts, in contrast to quantum-wave-based properties. (All of these are well understood and designed in all LED's, laser diodes, optical sensors, solar cells, for example.)

6th-10th weeks:
(4) General relationship from electrons to electron waves. That from lightwaves (em waves) to photons.
(5) Device's internal structures (of light-emitting diodes and light-absorbing sensors), and their working principles.
(6) Energy conversion law and general limits in energy-conversion efficiency, from electronic energy to photonic energy. That in the opposite direction, that is, from photonic energy to electronic energy.

11th-15th weeks:
(7) advanced groups of lasers, consisting of cavities and waveguides, which are deeply and broadly used in advanced systems such as network infrastructures (terabit per second), optical-disk memories (DVD&CD's), compact and accurate laser diodes (from infrared to blue).
(8) high-density light energy in time and 3D-space dimensions (total four dimensions), that is rather simply generated by laser oscillators in particular. (Several kinds of experimental research are going on in our UEC campus, as well.)

Both personal and group studies, efficiently before and after each weekly classroom, are encouraged.

Understanding level of each student is evaluated, in the final test in the end of the 15-week course.

6th period, Tuesdays. (Notify me Ueno by email, when I was not available in the period of tuesday.)

The number of participants to this course will be around 10, too, and, could be slightly less. So, this lecturer Ueno welcomes questions from participants sometimes in the middle of 90 minutes, rather than after it. Your asking good questions to lecturer inspires the other participants, too, basically.

Lecturer Ueno's international activities:
http://www.ultrafast.ee.uec.ac.jp/ueno-cv.html