Course No：

Title：Basis of Optoelectronic Physics

Class Time:1-4 Each Week in Fall Semester                       Credit：2

Category：Required postgraduate course     Prerequisites： Physics(A) I and II

Audience：Postgraduates

Teaching manner：Lectures               Speakers: Yubo Li,  Mingjun Xia

Course Objectives and Basic Requirements:

This course aims to make the students know the fundamental knowledge of optoelectronic physics, providing students with an in-depth training in their capability of solving problems in the field of optoelectronic devices and light-matter interaction.

Students are required to grasp basic principles of light generation, absorption, dispersion and propagation, as well as to have a knowledge of the promising optoelectronic devices and their practical applications.

Course Introduction:

This course mainly introduces the fundamental knowledge of optoelectronic physics. It starts with basic description of light-matter interaction, band structure of different materials, electron transition; then the course focuses on the light generation process and some key optoelectronic devices such as kinds of lasers, besides, simulation method and simulation software are included in this course.

Syllabus and Lecture Schedule:

Section 1 Basic concept of optoelectronic physics            Courses 1-12

Part I Basic quantum mechanics

1 Introduction of Schrödinger equation

2 Band structure theory  

3 Electronic states

4 Intraband transition and interband transition

Part II Dispersion and spectral analysis

1 Relaxation and radiative recombination

2 Light dispersion in the propagation  

3 Absorption spectrum and Raman spectrum

4 Selection rules in optoelectronics

Section 2 Generation of light                              Courses 13-24

Part I Optical processes in semiconductor

1Optical transition using Fermi-Golden Rule

2Optical absorption and gain

3Spontaneous emission and stimulated emission

4 Gain spectrum in quantum well structure  

Part II Semiconductor lasers

1 Double heterojunction semiconductor lasers

2 Distributed feedback lasers

3 Surface emission lasers

4 Quantum cascade lasers

Section 3 Optoelectronic simulation                     Courses 25-30

1 Introduction of main simulation software for optoelectronic physics

2 Band structure calculation based on Material Studio

3 Laser simulation using MatLAB

Section 4 Review and presentation                      Courses 31-32

Course review and oral presentation

Test and Grading：

Full Grade: 100

Exercise (10%)

Presentation (40%)

Final exam (50%)

Suggested textbooks or references:

Solid State Spectroscopy , Optoelectronic Physics and Applications