Course10810618664 lectures
Fundamentals of Nano and Quantum Photonics
Prof. Naresh Kumar Emani · IIT Hyderabad
About
The course objective is to familiarize students to the research frontiers in Nano and Quantum Optics. The course will discuss fundamental principles with emphasis on developing intuitive understanding and developing analytical techniques.
This course is primarily designed for post-graduate and PhD research scholars in Photonics. Senior undergraduate students pursuing ECE/EE/Physics or related programs will also benefit by exposure to this frontier area of research. Faculty interesting in expanding their knowledge base and/or prepare for research programs will also find it beneficial.
Prerequisites: Introduction to Semiconductor Devices (108106181 or equivalent), Introduction to Photonics (108106135), Elementary quantum mechanics.
Lectures
Week 1
- Review of Maxwell's Equations
- Wave Equation
- Dispersion Relation
- Propagating and Evanescent Waves
- Diffraction Limit and Spatial Frequencies
- Plane Waves
Week 2
- Optical Response of Materials
- Lorentz Model
- Properties of Lorentz Oscillator Model
- Drude-Lorentz Model for Metals
- Kramers-Kronig Relation
- Engineering Optical Response of Materials
Week 3
- Low dimensional systems
- Absorption in Semiconductors
- Optical gain in semiconductors
- Absorption in low-dimensional semiconductors
- Selection rules for optical processes
Week 4
- Scattering of EM radiation
- LSPR: Quasi-static approximation
- Size dependence of Plasmon Resonance
- Tuning Plasmonic Resonances
- Surface Plasmon Polariton(SPP)
- Understanding SPP Dispersion Diagram
- Exciting Surface Plasmon Polaritons
- Analytical Calculation of Scattering Coefficients - IPython code overview
Week 5
- EM Waves in Multilayer Stack - T Matrix formulation
- Photonic Bandgap in 1D
- EM Waves in 1D Photonic Crystal
- Diffracton Grating
- Applications of Photonic Crystals
- PhC in 1D - T-matrix examples
Week 6
- Introduction to Metamaterials
- Metamaterials at GHz and THz frequecies
- Negative index materials at optical frequencies
- Plasmonic Metasurfaces
- Dielectric Metasurfaces
Week 7
- Tunable and Active Metamaterials
- Radiative Absorption and Emission
- Miniaturization of Integrated Photonic Devices
- Evalution of Nanoscale Lasers
- Non-Hermitian Systems
Week 8
- Resonant light-atom interactions
- Experimental observation of Rabi oscillations
- Atom-Cavity Interaction - Weak and strong coupling regimes
- Experimental observation of weak and strong coupling
- Fabrication of nanophotonic structures - 1
- Fabrication of nanophotonic structures - 2
Week 9
- Measuring light quanta
- Photon Statistics
- Photodetection and shot noise limit
- Second order correlation function
Week 10
- Hanbury Brown-Twiss Experiment with Photons
- EM Waves as harmonic oscillator
- Vacuum fluctuations
- Coherent and squeezed states
Week 11
- Squeezed and photon number states
- Application of squeezed states
- Preliminaries for quantum theory of light
- Quantum theory of light
- Operator solution of quantum harmonic oscillator
Week 12
Syllabus and materials
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Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Hyderabad
- Department
- Electrical Engineering
- Teacher
- Prof. Naresh Kumar Emani
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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