Lukas Chrostowski is Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He is the Program Director of the NSERC CREATE Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits (Si-EPIC) training program, has been teaching silicon photonics courses and workshops since 2008, and has been awarded the Killiam Teaching Prize (2014).
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Part I. Silicon Photonics - Introduction: 1. Fabless Silicon Photonics: 1.1 Introduction 1.2 Silicon photonics - the next fabless semiconductor industry 1.3 Applications 1.4 Technical challenges and the state of the art 1.5 Opportunities 2. Modelling and Design Approaches: 2.1 Optical Waveguide Mode Solver 2.2 Wave Propagation 2.3 Optoelectronic models 2.4 Microwave Modelling 2.5 Thermal Modelling 2.6 Photonic Circuit Modelling 2.7 Physical Layout 2.8 Software Tools Integration Part II. Silicon Photonics - Passive Components: 3. Optical Materials and Waveguides: 3.1 Silicon-on-Insulator 3.2 Waveguides 3.3 Bent waveguides 3.4 Code Listings 3.5 Problems 4. Fundamental Building Blocks: 4.1 Directional couplers 4.2 Y-Branch 4.3 Mach-Zehnder Interferometer 4.4 Ring resonators 4.5 Waveguide Bragg Grating Filters 4.6 Code Listings 4.7 Problems 5. Optical I/O: 5.1 The challenge of optical coupling to silicon photonic chips 5.2 Grating Coupler 5.3 Edge Coupler 5.4 Polarization 5.5 Code Listings 5.6 Problems Part III. Silicon Photonics - Active Components: 6. Modulators: 6.1 Plasma Dispersion E 6.2 PN Junction Phase Shifter 6.3 Micro-ring Modulators 6.4 Forward-biased PIN Junction 6.5 Active Tuning 6.6 Thermo-Optic Switch 6.7 Code Listings 6.8 Problems 7. Detectors: 7.1 Performance Parameters 7.2 Fabrication 7.3 Types of detectors 7.4 Design Considerations 7.5 Detector modelling 7.5.2 Electronic Simulations 7.6 Code Listings 7.7 Problems 8. Lasers: 8.1 External Lasers 8.2 Laser Modelling 8.3 Co-Packaging 8.4 Hybrid Silicon Lasers 8.5 Monolithic Lasers 8.6 Alternative Light Sources 8.7 Problems Part IV. Silicon Photonics - System Design: 9. Photonic Circuit Modelling: 9.1 Need for photonic circuit modelling 9.2 Components for System Design 9.3 Compact Models 9.4 Directional Coupler - Compact Model 9.5 Ring Modulator - Circuit Model 9.6 Grating Coupler - S Parameters 9.7 Code Listings 10. Tools and Techniques: 10.1 Process Design Kit (PDK) 10.2 Mask Layout 11. Fabrication: 11.1 Fabrication Non-Uniformity 11.2 Problems 12. Testing and Packaging: 12.1 Electrical and Optical Interfacing 12.2 Automated Optical Probe Stations 12.3 Design for Test 13. Silicon Photonic System Example: 13.1 Wavelength Division Multiplexed Transmitter.
