Syllabus:
Rays and Optical Beams
Introduction to ray optics, optical beam, Gaussian beam
Planar Waveguides
Planar mirror waveguides, Planar dielectric waveguides, Two dimensional waveguides, TE and TM Confined Modes in symmetric Slab Waveguides, TE and TM Confined Modes in Asymmetric Slab Waveguides,
Numerical methods
Effective index method, Beam propagation method
Optical fibers
Fiber modes, Step index fiber, Multimode fiber, Attenuation in Silica Fibers, Waveguide Dispersion in Optical Fibers, Optical Coupling in Waveguides
Photonic Crystal waveguides
Periodic structures, photonic crystals, Holy fiber
Plasmonic waveguides
Plasmonic structures,
References:
1- B.E.A. Saleh, Teich, Fundamentals of Photonics, and M.C. Wiley, 1991
2- Yariv and P. Yeh. Optical Electronics in Modern Communications (6th ed), Oxford.
3- E. Hetch, Optics, Addisson Wesley 2000
4- S.A. Maier, Plasmonics: fundamentals and applications, Springer, 2007.