SC325 Semiconductor Photonic Integrated Circuits

Sunday, March 21, 2010
9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Chris Doerr; Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Level: Advanced Beginner (basic understanding of topic is necessary to follow course material)

Course Description

This course will discuss photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in InP and silicon, focusing on applications for optical communications. The course will start with optical waveguide fundamentals and move progressively toward more complicated state-of-the-art devices. Many examples of demonstrated devices will be presented and explained.

Benefits and Learning Objectives

This course should enable you to:

• Design optical waveguide structures.
• Simulate optical waveguide structures.
• Design photonic integrated circuits.
• Simulate photonic integrated circuits.
• Understand some of the device physics.
• Design electronics for driving photonic integrated circuits.
• Predict future abilities and costs of photonic integrated circuits.
• Debug problems in photonic integrated circuits.

Intended Audience

This course is intended for anyone who has basic optics knowledge but wants to learn more about photonic integrated circuits.

Biography

Christopher R. Doerr earned a bachelor's degree in aeronautical/astronautical engineering and a bachelor's, master's and doctorate in electrical engineering, all from MIT. He attended MIT on an Air Force ROTC scholarship. His doctoral thesis, on constructing a fiber-optic gyroscope with noise below the quantum limit, was supervised by Prof. Hermann Haus. Since coming to Bell Labs in 1995, Doerr’s research has focused on integrated devices for optical communication. He was promoted to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in 2000 and received the OSA Engineering Excellence Award in 2002. Doerr was editor-in-chief of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, and was an elected member of the LEOS Board of Governors. He became an IEEE Fellow in 2007 and an OSA Fellow in 2009.