Photonic Materials

3-0-9 units · Undergraduate

Provides a review of Maxwell's equations and the Helmholtz wave equation. Optical devices: waveguides and cavities, phase and group velocity, causality, and scattering. Light-matter interaction in bulk, surface, and subwavelength-structured matter, thermal radiation. Lorentz, Drude, Sellmeier, and Debye models for dielectric permittivity. Effective media, dispersion relationships, waveguiding, surface polariton modes, light interaction with nanoparticles, anisotropic and nonlinear materials, photonic crystals, and metamaterials. Provides instruction and practice in computational methods and includes description of the experimental tools for realization and measurement of photonic materials and effects. Students taking graduate version complete additional assignments.