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Lightwave Devices  --  Electrical Engineering  (EL ENG) 232 [4 units]
Course Format: Three hours of lecture and one hour of discussion per week.
Prerequisites: Electrical Engineering 130 or equivalent; Physics 137A and Electrical Engineering 117 recommended.
Description: This course is designed to give an introduction and overview of the fundamentals of optoelectronic devices. Topics such as optical gain and absorption spectra, quantization effects, strained quantum wells, optical waveguiding and coupling, and hetero p-n junction will be covered. This course will focus on basic physics and design principles of semiconductor diode lasers, light emitting diodes, photodetectors and integrated optics. Practical applications of the devices will be also discussed.
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