Università Roma Tre

- Elements on light propagation in anisotropic crystals : principal axes, index ellipsoid, ordinary and extraordinary waves, birefringence.
- Electro-optic effect: introduction, polarization and amplitude modulation, phase modulation, longitudinal and transverse modulation.
- Acousto-optic effect: introduction, Raman-Nath and Bragg regimes, acousto-optic modulation and deflection, acousto-optic isolators.
- Integrated optics: planar waveguides and ray-propagation, eigenwaves and eigenvalues, TE and TM dispersion relations, channel waveguides, coupling. Coupled-mode theory. The coherent coupler. The integrated optical Mach-Zehnder interferometer and modulator. Co- and counter-propagating modes, Bragg reflection.
- Introduction to quadratic nonlinear optics: phenomena, coupled equations, second-harmonic generationa, phase-matching.
- Introduction to cubic Kerr-like nonlinear optics: phenomena, nonlinear refraction, self-effects.

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