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Course Description

ECE533 is a comprehensive graduate level course on semiconductor optoelectronics. Topics covered include fundamentals of optical interband transitions in semiconductors, semiconductor bandstructure, spontaneous and stimulated emission of photons in semiconductors, non-radiative transitions, semiconductor materials for optoelectronics, semiconductor heterostructures, optical absorption and gain, photodetectors, integrated optical waveguides, semiconductor optical amplifiers, light emitting diodes, semiconductor lasers, laser dynamics, quantum well, and quantum dot lasers, semiconductor band-structure engineering with strained epitaxial layers, integrated DFB and DBR structures, vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, widely tunable photonics, electro-absorption light modulators, all-optical switches, intersubband optical transitions, quantum cascade lasers, semiconductor optical devices in optical communication systems.

Lecturer

Professor Farhan Rana
316 Phillips Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: 607-255-6317       Fax: 607-245-3508
Email: farhan.rana at cornell.edu