FYS-6656 Photonic Materials, 5 cr
Additional information
Suitable for postgraduate studies.
Person responsible
Laeticia Petit
Lessons
| Implementation | Period | Person responsible | Requirements |
| FYS-6656 2019-01 | 3 |
Laeticia Petit |
The requirements for completing the course are described on the General info tab of the implementation round page.The final grade of the course is defined by exercise, laboratory work, presentation and final exam. The presentation is based on a project assignment, which is to be completed as a result of a team work. The numeric assessment is based on weighting the exercise by 33%, laboratory work and presentation by 33% and final exam by 33%. Instructions how to achieve the learning outcomes of the week performance and the project assignment can be found from the Moodle. |
Learning Outcomes
The course highlights the important role that materials play in modern photonic technologies. It covers light-matter interactions in disordered (photonic glasses), partially ordered (liquid crystals), and ordered (crystalline) materials, as well as in periodic and nanostructured materials, elaborating on the most important use cases of the different materials classes in photonics. The course includes laboratory experiments. Having completed the course, the student is able to - comprehend the fundamentals of photonic materials and understand their design, fabrication and characterization, and interaction with light. - to identify different classes of photonic materials and describe the working principles of photonic devices based on glassy, liquid-crystalline, crystalline, and periodically ordered materials. The student also has knowledge on plasmonic materials and metamaterials, and the role of nanostructuring on the optical response.
Content
| Content | Core content | Complementary knowledge | Specialist knowledge |
| 1. | Optical glasses and polymers: Common materials used for photonics, fiber and film | Glass melting process; polymer preparation; fiber drawing; film deposition techniques; characterization techniques | Composition-structure-spectroscopic properties relations; Properties-fiber drawing/film deposition relations |
| 2. | Liquid crystals: common LC phases; light propagation in LCs; LC displays | Polarized optical microscopy; Defects in LCs; LCs in external fields | Structure; phase relations; Liquid crystal polymers; Liquid crystal lasers |
| 3. | Crystalline materials | Fabrication and characterization techniques; Linear and nonlinear optics | Others (ceramics, crystals for lasers¿) |
| 4. | Photonic crystals (1D, 2D, 3D), Metallic optical response | Fabrication processes for layered/periodic photonic materials; Plasmonic sensors | Bioinspired photonics; Metamaterials and metasurfaces |
Instructions for students on how to achieve the learning outcomes
The total mark is determined based on a final exam, laboratory works, and the student¿s activity in exercise classes. The relative weights of exam and exercise classes/laboratory work/presentation are 50% and 50%, respectively if the student gets at least 45% at the exam.
Assessment scale:
Numerical evaluation scale (0-5)
Correspondence of content
There is no equivalence with any other courses