ELL738: Micro and Nano

Photonics

• Professor teaching the course: Prof. Anuj Dhawan

• Office : Block II, Room 413-D

• E-mail: adhawan@ee.iitd.ac.in
 EEL738: Micro and Nano
Photonics
Dr. Anuj Dhawan
Professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi
E-mail: adhawan@ee.iitd.ac.in

(Previously at: Research Scientist, Fitzpatrick Institute of Photonics, Duke University,

NRC Fellow, Electronics Division, US Army Research Office,
Ph.D., North Carolina State University
B. Tech., IIT Delhi)
 ELL738: Micro and Nano
Photonics
• Books
– Text Book
• Fundamentals of Photonics (by Saleh and Teich)

– Reference Books

• Classical Electrodynamics (by J.D. Jackson)

• Principles of Optics (by Born and Wolf)

• Fundamentals of Plasmonics by Stefan Maier

 Micro and Nano
Photonics Syllabus

• Ray Optics
 Matrix Optics
• Wave optics
 Complex Wavefunctions
 Wavefronts
 Plane Waves
 Micro and Nano
Photonics Syllabus
• Wave optics contd..
 Paraboloidal Waves
 Spherical Waves
 Paraxial Waves, Paraxial
Helmholtz Equation
 Interference
 Micro and Nano
Photonics Syllabus
• Interference contd..
 Multiple wave Interference
 Polychromatic Light
• Beam Optics
 Gaussian Beam
• Polarization Optics
 Micro and Nano
Photonics Syllabus
• Electromagnetic optics
 Maxwell’s Equations
 Propagation of light in free
space
 Propagation of light in
dielectrics
 Maxwell’s Equations in Phasor
form
 Micro and Nano
Photonics Syllabus
• Electromagnetic optics contd..
 Helmholtz Equations
 Boundary Conditions
 Applications of boundary
conditions to practical
problems
 Micro and Nano
Photonics Syllabus
• Guided Propagation of Light:
 Helmholtz waveguide Equation
 Application of boundary
conditions
 Optical Waveguides &
Interconnects
 Additional Emerging topics
 Mark Distribution:
• Major – 45 %

• Minor – 35%

• Term Paper – 15%

• Class Participation/Quiz – 5%

Attendance Policy
• Students are encouraged to attend the classes
Thanks