TEK9480 - H2018

Table of Contents

• Course Contents
• Study Material
• Teaching
• Study Schedule
• Problems
• Final Examination

Course Contents

• Photonic crystals in one, two and three dimensions.
  1D: Periodic multilayer films, planar diffraction gratings, fiberoptic Bragg gratings.
  2D: Nanostructured thin films.  Optical fibres with air holes,
  3D: Crystal structures with an optical band gap
• Bloch-waves in one, two and three dimensions
  Bloch-waves in at zero frequency: optical metamaterials
  Brillouin zones, band diagrams
  Numerical methods for Bloch-waves
• Evanescent waves
• Bloch-waves used in series expansions for electromagnetic fields
• Defects in photonic crystals
• Applications: Solar Cells and Biosensors

List of recommended reading material (tentative):

1. John D. Joannopoulos, Steven G. Johnson, Joshua N. Winn, and Robert D. Meade, ¡°Photonic Crystals: Molding the Flow of Light,¡± Second Edition, Princeton University Press 2008, ISBN: 9780691124568, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8696.html . Chapter 1 (PDF): http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s8696.pdf   PDF of the entire book: http://ab-initio.mit.edu/book/photonic-crystals-book.pdf

2. J. B. Pendry, A. J. Holden, D. J. Robbins, and W. J. Stewart, ¡°Magnetism from Conductors and Enhanced Nonlinear Phenomena,¡± IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Techn., vol. 47(11), Nov. 1999.

3. D. R. Smith, S. Schultz, P. Markos and C. M. Soukoulis, ¡°Determination of effective permittivity and permeability of metamaterials from reflection and transmission coefficients,¡± Phys. Rev., vol. B65, 195104 (19 April 2002)

4. ¡°Next generation solar cells: Trapping sunlight with microbeads,¡±  http://www.apollon.uio.no/english/articles/2013/trapping-sunlight.html , http://www.apollon.uio.no/artikler/2013/1_energi_sollyset.html

5. J. Gjessing, ¡°Photonic crystals for light trapping in solar cells,¡± Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Physics, University of Oslo 2012, ISSN 1501-7710, No. 1163.

6. S.G. Johnson, S. Fan, P.R. Villeneuve, J.D. Joannopoulos, and L.A. Kodolziejski, ¡°Guided modes in photonic crystal slabs,¡± Phys. Rev., vol. B60, no. 8, pp. 5751-5758, 1999.

7. S. Fan and J. D. Joannopoulos, ¡°Analysis of guided resonances in photonic crystal slabs,¡± Phys. Rev., vol. B65, p. 235112, 2002.

8. J.O. Grepstad: "Patterned Dielectric Membranes designed for Optical Sensing of Nano-Particles," Doctoral thesis at NTNU, 2014:108 .

9. J. Blad and A.S. Sudb?, ¡°Evanescent modes in out-of-plane band structure for two-dimensional photonic crystals,¡± Optics Express, vol. 17, No. 9, 27 April 2009, pp. 7171-7187, http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-17-9-7170 .

10. A.S. Sudb?, ¡°Film Mode Matching: A Versatile Numerical Method for Vector Mode Field Calculations in Dielectric Waveguides,¡± Pure and Applied Optics, 2, 211-233 (1993). 

11. A.S. Sudb?, ¡°Mode Matching for Photonic Crystal Slabs.¡±

12. J. Plouin, E. Richalot, O. Picon, M. Carras, A. de Rossi, ¡°Photonic band structures for bi-dimensional metallic mesa gratings,¡± Optics Express, vol. 14, No. 21, pp. 9982-9987, 2006. 

13. T.A. Birks, J.C. Knight, and P.St.J. Russell, ¡°Endlessly single-mode photonic crystal fiber,¡± Opt. Lett. 22, 961 (1997). 

14. Reeves, W. H.; Knight, J. C.; Russell, P. S. J.; Roberts, P. J., ¡°Demonstration of ultra-flattened dispersion in photonic crystal fibers,¡± Optics Express, 15 July 2002; 10(14). 

Another Textbook

J.M. Lourtioz, H. Benisty, V. Berger, J.M. Gerard, D. Maystre, A. Tchelnokov ¡°Photonic Crystals: Towards Nanoscale Photonic Devices,¡± Second Ed., Springer, 2008, (published in French by Hermes Science, France, 2003), ISBN: 978-3-540-78346-6, 514 pages,http://www.springer.com/physics/optics/book/978-3-540-78346-6  

Teaching

2 hours discussion of reading material and 1 hour discussion of problem sets every week.

Every Wednesday 13:15-16:00 in office 212 at UNIK, first time 31 August, 2017.

Students and teacher will all read the study material every week, and all prepare questions for the discussion. Topics for the problem sets are delayed one week in relation to the topics for discussion.

Students may also benefit from the course by attending it via web and email.

Study Schedule Autumn 2017:

Problems Autumn 2017, with due dates

Final Oral Examination, date in December negotiable.

Updated 4 October, 2017, by Aasmund.