Five year integrated MSc Degree Course in Photonics.pdf

MODULE 3
. Optical Instability- dispersive and absorptive cases Bell's inequalities in quantum optics, EPR
argument, experimental studies, nondemolition measurements, quantum coherence.
MODULE 4
Deflection of atoms by light. Kapitza- Dirac effect. Optical Stern -Gerlach experiment, Interaction
between Atoms and quantized fields- dressed fields, Jaynes - Cummings model.
REFERENCES
MODULE 1
Quantum optics-D P Walls& G H Milburn , Springer verlag.(1993) (Text).
Elements of quantum optics -Meysre and M Sargent , Springer verlag ,(1998) (Text )
press, (1995).
CEL 2E 10 PHOTONICS MATERIALS
Nano materials- nanocrystals, quantum dots and quantum wells, nanocrystals of Ill-V
compounds and indirect gap materials, energy states of quantum dots, photonics applications of
quantum dots and quantum wells, photonic switches and modulators using quantum dots and
quantum wells.
MODULE 2
Organic materials for photonics, evaluation of second order and third order optical.
non linearities, organic materials for second and third order nonlinear optics, photoreractive
polymers, polymers for light emiting sources, optical limiting, polymers for optical fibre.
MODULE 3
Sol-Gel materials for Photonics applications, method of preparations, electro optic-magneto
optic and acousto optic materials, Photonic devices based on EO.MO , AO effects. Fluoride glass
based fibres and their applications.
MODULE 4
Thin film optics based components, design and production of thin films, and reflection and dichroic
reflection coatings. DWDM filters, production and characterization of optical thin films- PLD,
CVD, PV,. MBE,dip,spin and spray coatings.
Optical IC and wave guide structures- coplanar waveguides, frequency doublers. mixers. MEMS,
Photonic band gap structures, waveguides of elevated and buried structures, optical Icsarchitecture
and applications.
REFERENCES
1 Optical properties of semiconductor quantum dots - V Woggon . Springer verlag.( 1997)
Optical properties of semiconductor nanocrystals- S VGaponeko, Cambridge University
Press(1998).
Sol-Gel for Photonics, B J Thompson. SP1E. (1998).
4. Practical design & production of optical thin films - R R Wiltey, Marcel & Dekker, (2002).
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