ECE 69500 - Optical Processes in Solids

Course Details

Lecture Hours: 3 Credits: 3

Counts as:

Experimental Course Offered:

Fall 2016

Requisites:

ECE 311 or equivalent

Requisites by Topic:

Basic electromagnetics; basic solid state theory

Catalog Description:

The course is focused on the optical physics of solid state materials. It begins with the discussion of the fundamentals of the electrodynamics of continuous media, with the emphasis on light propagation and scattering. Subsequently, it covers the quantum mechanical treatment of optical absorption and luminescence, and the excitonic effects, followed by the description of the optical properties of insulators, semiconductors and metals. The course also includes a discussion of the optical properties of photonic crystals, metamaterials and other nanophotonic systems.

Required Text(s):

  1. Optical Processes in Solids , Y. Toyozawa , Cambridge University Press , 2003 , ISBN No. 978-0521556057
  2. Principles of the Theory of Solids , J. M. Ziman , Cambridge University Press , 1979 , ISBN No. 978-0521297332

Recommended Text(s):

  1. Optical Properties of Solids , 2nd Edition , M. Fox , Oxford University Press , 2010 , ISBN No. 978-0199573370
  2. Principles of Optics: Electromagnetic Theory of Propagation, Interference and Diffraction of Light , 7th Edition , M. Born, E.Wolf, A. B. Bhatia, P. C. Clemmow, D. Gabor, A. R. Stokes , Cambridge University Press , 1999 , ISBN No. 978-0521642224
  3. Quantum Theory of Solids , C. Kittel , Wiley , 1987 , ISBN No. 978-0471624127

Lecture Outline:

Week Major Topics
1 Radiation field and the fundamentals of electrodynamics
2 Electromagnetic response of continuous media: linear response theory, Kramers-Kronig relations, non-locality, etc.
3 Quantum mechanics and the light-matter interactions
4 Electronic vs. nuclear motions and the optical spectra of localized electrons
5 Lattice vibrations
6 Single-electron states
7 Inter-band transitions
8 Lattice absorption and phonon polaritons
9 Excitons
10 Light interactions with metals and doped semiconductors
11 Plasmonics
12 Magnons and ferromagnetic resonance
13 Impurity centers
14 Light scattering
15 Optical properties of metamaterials and photonic crystals