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to Photonics Master 1
Academic year 2010
2010--11, 1st semester in Photonics

Prof. Ramon Vilaseca

Departament de Física i Enginyeria Nuclear,
C
Campus d
de T
Terrassa, UPC
GAIA Research building
Rambla de Sant Nebridi, s/n
08222 Terrassa

ramon.vilaseca@upc.edu,
ramon.vilaseca@upc.edu Tel.
Tel. 93 7398557

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PROGRAMME: Chapters 0 and 1
1:: in Photonics

Chapter 0.- Introduction to the Course. Concept of Photonics.

Chapter 1.- “Light”: Fundamental characteristics (“what is it?”)

1.1.- Points of view of: Geometrical, Wave, and Electromagnetic Optics.

Types of light available.
1.2.- Point of view of Quantum Optics:
- Manifestations
M if t ti off the
th wave-particle
ti l duality.
d lit "Photons".
"Ph t "
- Manifestations of the uncertainty principle. "States of light".
- Manifestations of the superposition principle.
Quantum Information
- Manifestations of quantum entanglement.
1.3.- What can light be useful for?.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS in Photonics

Chapter 2..- Light-matter interaction..

2.1.- Linear effects:
effects: Interaction between light and: atoms, molecules,
semiconductors and metals.
2.2.- Nonlinear effects:
effects: Nonlinear optics and dynamics.
Solitons, slow and fast light.
Phenomena with cw and pulsed light. Solitons,
2.3.- Light generation and amplification: LED’s, Lasers, OPO’s,… Types of lasers.
2.4.- Light modulation and displaying. Modulation in time and in space. Filtering.
2.5.- Light detection. Energy and image detection.
2.6.- Action over the atom’s center of mass: cooling and trapping.
B
Bose-
Bose-Einstein
Ei t i condensation.
d ti

Chapter 3..- Propagation of light.

3.1.- Free propagation of light in uniform media (short
(short reminder)
reminder)
3.2.- Propagation of light in bounded or non-
non-uniform media:
Fibers, guides, and resonators (short
(short summary).
summary). Photonic crystals, metamaterials
metamaterials..

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TABLE OF CONTENTS in Photonics

Chapter 5..- Applications and Research. Photonics in different

Sectors.
(Most of these topics will be integrated into the preceding chapters)
Inter--sectorial applications: Sensing, reading, control, imaging.
Inter
Industry: material processing. Lighting, Energy.
Information technology and Communications.
Chemistry, materials analysis, contamination control.
Medicine biology
Medicine, biology.
Other applications.
New fields in research. Quantum information, nanophotonics, biophotonics, etc.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY in Photonics

Basic

- Fundamentals of Photonics.
Photonics. B.E.A. Saleh and M.C. Teich (Wiley, 2nd ed. 2007).
Photonics.. R. Menzel (Springer, 2001).
- Photonics
- Optoelectronics
Optoelectronics.. E. Uiga (Prentice Hall, 1995).
Optics.. C.C. Gerry and P.L. Knight (Cambridge, 2005).
- Introductory Quantum Optics

Advanced or complementary:
complementary:

- Photonics. Optical Electronics in Modern Communications

((Oxford Univ. Press,, 6th ed.,, 2006).
)
- Harnessing Light: Optical Science and Engineering for the 21st Century.
Century.
CPSMA (National Academy of Sciences, USA, 1998).
- Elements of Photonics. K. Likuza (Wiley, 2002).
Photonics.
- Optical radiation detectors.
detectors. E.L. Dereviak and D.G. Crowe (Wiley, 1984).

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EVALUATION CRITERIA in Photonics

EVALUATION CRITERIA

▪ Lectures attendance: up to 15
15--20
20%.
%.

▪ Visiting
Visiting--professors short-
short-courses attendance: up to 15%

(0.2 points for a ~1h seminar, and 0.3 points for a 2h seminar. At least
3 seminars must be from those organized directly by the Master in Photonics)

▪ Exams (and student’s work, if it is the case): 70%

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Chapter 0: INTRODUCTION. CONCEPT OF PHOTONICS in Photonics

• OPTICS

• Electro-optics
• Optoelectronics
• Lightwave Technology
?
• Quantum Electronics
• Quantum Optics
p

• “PHOTONICS
PHOTONICS””

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50 th anniversary of the LASER… Master 8
in Photonics

Theodore Maiman,
1960

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Increasing relevance of Optics & Photonics from both

the SCIENTIFIC & TECHNOLOGICAL points of view:
From the Technological point of view:
- Lighting (Illumination), vision
- Imaging, image processing
- Sensing, remote sensing, metrology
- Reading, printing, marking, arts,
- Materials p
processing g ((cutting,
g, welding,
g, drilling,…)
g, )
- Communications, connectors
- Nanophotonics, integrated photonics, …
- Biophotonics,…
- Energy: photovoltaics, controlled nuclear fusion,
- …

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KET: Key Enabling Technologies, for the EU in Photonics

The European Union (EU) has defined, in 2010, several

“Key Enabling Technologies” (KET)
for sustainable European industry:

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KET: Key Enabling Technologies, for the EU in Photonics

The following could be regarded as the most strategically relevant KETs, given their economic potential,
contribution to solving societal challenges and knowledge intensity :
Nanotechnology holds the promise of leading to the development of smart nano and micro
devices and systems and to radical breakthroughs in vital fields such as healthcare, energy,
environment and manufacturing;
Micro- and nanoelectronics, including semiconductors: essential for all goods and services
which need intelligent control in sectors as diverse as automotive and transportation, aeronautics
and space. Smart industrial control systems permit more efficient management of electricity
generation, storage, transport and consumption through intelligent electrical grids and devices;
Photonics is a multidisciplinary domain dealing with light, encompassing its generation,
detection and management. Among other things it provides the technological basis for the economical
conversion of sunlight to electricity which is important for the production of renewable energy, and a variety
of electronic components and equipment such as photodiodes,
photodiodes LEDs and lasers.
lasers
Advanced materials offer major improvements in a wide variety of different fields, e.g. in
aerospace, transport, building and health care. They facilitate recycling, lowering the carbon footprint and
energy demand as well as limiting the need for raw materials that are scarce in Europe;
Biotechnology brings cleaner and sustainable process alternatives for industrial&agri-food
operations. It will for example allow the progressive replacement of non-renewable materials
currently used in various industries with renewable resources, however the scope of applications
is just at the beginning;

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LASER World of PHOTONICS 2009 strengthens the industry’s confidence

Despite the difficult economic conditions around the world, the Laser World of Photonics
posted positive result. The show has recorded a rise in the number of exhibitors compared to
th last
the l t time
ti that
th t the
th eventt was held.
h ld
The exhibitors showcased numerous innovations and made intensive use of the tremendous
synergies be-tween industry and science that the trade show and the accompanying World of
Photonics Congress offer.
The attendees gave the trade show the best ratings in the event‟s history. With 1,040 exhibitors
(2007: 1,008), LASER World of PHOTONICS 2009 set a new record. The percentage of
companies coming from outside Germany rose from 53% in 2007 to 57% this year.
The
h exhibition
hibi i area was ex-panded d d from
f three
h h ll to four,
halls f which
hi h brought
b h the
h totall to 42,000
square meters of floor space. With over 24,000 attendees and visitors, the trade show
organiser‟s expec-tations were exceeded by a small margin (2007: 26,655).

Optimistic outlook for biophotonics, photovoltaics and illumination

Emphasis on the fostering of junior talent
http://world-of-photonics.net/link/en/21815775#21815775

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PHOTONICS21-- EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
PHOTONICS21 in Photonics

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PHOTONICS21-- EUROPEAN TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
PHOTONICS21 in Photonics

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See EOS Newsletter 2009.08 for more news from Photonics XXI at European Level

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From: FOTONICA 21

Optech Consulting, Oct. 2007

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Increasing relevance of Optics & Photonics from the

SCIENTIFIC point of view:

- New branches: Nonlinear Optics, Nanophotonics,

Plasmonics, Attoscience, Quantum Optics, Biophotonics.
- It pushes forward Atomic Physics, BEC, Quantum
information, Nuclear Physics,…
- Itt p
provides
o des too
tools
saand
d instruments
st u e ts for
o research
esea c in d
different
ee t
fields of Physics, Chemistry, Biology,…
- New materials: photonic crystals, optical metamaterials (for
integrated photonics, nanophotonics, communications,
information processing,…)
- Metrology,…

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50 years of the laser… Master 24
in Photonics

Charles H. Townes,
1954 Arthur Schawlow

Theodore Maiman,
1960

Charles H. Townes, 2010

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NOBEL PRIZE 1981 in Photonics

Nicolaas Bloembergen Arthur L. Schawlow

Harvard University, USA Stanford University, USA

“For their contribution to the development of laser spectroscopy”

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NOBEL PRIZE 1997 in Photonics

Claude
Steven Chu William D. Phillips
C h T
Cohen-Tannoudji
dji

“For development of methods to cool and trap atoms

with laser light"

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NOBEL PRIZE 2001 in Photonics

Eric A. Cornell Wolfgang Ketterle Carl E. Wieman

JILA and NIST MIT
Boulder,, CO,, USA Cambridge,
g , MA,, USA
Born in 1961 (Palo Alto) Born in 1957 (Heidelberg)
PhD 1990 (MIT) PhD 1986 (Universität München
and Max-Planck-Institut für
Quantenoptik, Garching)
JILA and Univ. of
Colorado
Boulder, CO, USA
Born in 1951( Oregon)
PhD 1977 at Stanford
University

“For the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali

atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates".

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NOBEL PRIZE 2005 in Photonics

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NOBEL PRIZE 2009 in Photonics

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