EDPO - Photonics

This doctoral level course will present an overview of nonlinear optical effects in waveguides. It includes:

- The review of properties of waveguides and the presentation of the difference sources of optical nonlinearites

- Putting in place basics behing light matter interaction, light propagation in medium, scattering processes ...

- The description of nonlinearities of the third order: the optical Kerr effect, self phase modulation, modulation instability, solitons, four wave mixing, parametric amplification, supercontinuum generation

- The description of inelastic scatterings: spontaneous Brillouin and Raman scatterings

- the introduction to microring resonators, linear and kerr nonlinearities

- Advanced applications: supercontinuum generation, optical combs ...


Optical aspects of 3D printing technology. This includes optical systems for scanning and excitation, photopolymers, glass and other photoactive materials, and optical components fabricated with 3D printing technology