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ENGPHYS 3PD4

Photonic Devices

Undergraduate

Winter 2027

Topics

  • Course covers the theory
  • Design and operation of photonic devices
  • Waveguides
  • Couplers
  • Modulators
  • Detectors and lasers
  • Fiber optical systems
  • Information processing and sensing

Readings

  • (available for free via the McMaster library): Robert G. Hunsperger, Integrated Optics: Theory and Technology, 6th Ed., Springer, 2009
    6th Ed · recommended
  • Govind P. Agrawal, Fiber-Optic Communication Systems, 4th Ed., Wiley, 2010 Lukas Chrostowski and Michael Hochberg, Silicon Photonics Design, Cambridge University Press, 2015
    4th Ed · recommended
Sources