Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Description
Modes in planar optical waveguides: TE and TM modes. Modal analysis of a parabolic index medium. Modes in channel waveguides: Effective index method, Perturbation method and Variational method. Modes in multilayered waveguides: Matrix method. Directional coupler: coupled mode theory, Integrated Optical devices: Prism Coupling, optical switching, modulators and wavelength filters, etc. Step Index and graded index fibers, Attenuation in optical fibers, LP Guided Modes of a step-index fiber, Single-mode fibers, Gaussian approximation and splice losses. Dispersion in optical fibers, Pulse dispersion, Dispersion management. Fabrication and characterization of optical waveguides. Fiber optic components and devices. Optical fiber sensors; Basic principles and applications.