Università Roma Tre

• Reflection and interference phenomena
Maxwell's equations; Helmholtz’s equation; constitutive equations; spherical and plane waves; reflection and refraction laws; total internal reflection; Fresnel coefficients; etalon; Fabry Perot interferometer; interference between two or more waves; diffractive gratings; thin lens; spherical mirrors; image formation.

• Guided wave optics
Planar waveguides: dispersion equation; optical modes; coupled waveguides. Optical fibers: modes in a step-index fiber; multimode fibers; chromatic dispersion; non-linear effects: SPM, XPM, FWM, Raman scattering; WDM; design guidelines.

• Photonic Integrated circuits
Planar lightwave circuit (PLC) devices: power splitters; directional couplers; Mach Zehnder interferometer; optical filters; wavelength multiplexers; MMI coupler, Bragg grating,

• Wave optics
Plane wave expansion; angular spectrum representation; Rayleigh-Sommerfeld equation; Fresnel and the Fraunhofer approximation; diffraction from a rectangular and a circular aperture; paraxial wave equation; Gaussian beams; optical resonators; effect of a lens on a Gaussian beam; effect of a lens on the field propagation; optical resolution.

• Imaging and spectroscopy
Image formation with coherent and incoherent illumination; resolving power; numerical aperture; cameras; microscopes; optical spectrometer; blazed gratings; Fourier spectroscopy.

• Polarization and optical anisotropy
Polarization states; Jones calculus; Stokes parameters; Poincarè sphere; anisotropic crystals; half-wave plate, quarter-wave plate; liquid crystals.

• Laser and LED
Einstein equations; absorption and emission in a semiconductor; optical density of the states; LED, OLED; semiconductor lasers; rate equations; FP and DFB lasers.

• Optical Receivers
PIN and avalanche photodiodes; noise; bit error rate (BER); Q parameter; eye diagram; sensitivity; quantum limit of photodetection.

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