NPTEL : NOC:Physics of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Waveguides (Physics)

Co-ordinators : Prof. Samudra Roy


Lecture 1 - Wave Equation, Maxwell’s equation, Plane wave

Lecture 2 - EM wave in vacuum, Poynting vector, Maxwell’s equation in Dielectric Medium

Lecture 3 - Poynting Vector, Maxwell’s equation in dielectric medium (Continued...)

Lecture 4 - Total Internal reflection, Evanescent wave

Lecture 5 - Step-index fiber (SIF), Light guidance in SIF

Lecture 6 - Light guidance in SIF (Skew Ray), V-Parameter, Discrete Ray

Lecture 7 - Cutoff wavelength, Fiber characteristics

Lecture 8 - Fiber Loss, dB units, Dispersion

Lecture 9 - Dispersion, Ray Path constant

Lecture 10 - Ray path constant, Ray equation

Lecture 11 - Ray equation (Continued...)

Lecture 12 - Ray transit time

Lecture 13 - Ray transit time (Continued...)

Lecture 14 - Material dispersion

Lecture 15 - Material dispersion (Continued...)

Lecture 16 - Material Dispersion (Continued...), Dispersion Coefficient

Lecture 17 - Pulse Broadening

Lecture 18 - Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Medium

Lecture 19 - Pulse Propagation in Dispersive Medium (Continued...)

Lecture 20 - Concept of Modes

Lecture 21 - TE and TM Modes

Lecture 22 - TE and TM Modes (Continued...)

Lecture 23 - Modes in Slab waveguide

Lecture 24 - Modes in Slab waveguide (Continued...)

Lecture 25 - Modes in Slab waveguide (Continued...)

Lecture 26 - Modes in Slab Waveguide (Continued...)

Lecture 27 - Waveguide Dispersion

Lecture 28 - Physical Understanding of Modes

Lecture 29 - Power Associated with a Modes

Lecture 30 - Modes in an Optical Fiber

Lecture 31 - Modes in an optical fiber (Continued...)

Lecture 32 - Modes in an optical fiber (Continued...)

Lecture 33 - LPlm mode structure

Lecture 34 - Optical fiber mode morphology (Continued...)

Lecture 35 - Effective area of mode, Fiber optics components

Lecture 36 - Directional Coupler

Lecture 37 - Coupled Mode Theory

Lecture 38 - Coupled Mode Theory (Continued...)

Lecture 39 - 3 dB power splitter

Lecture 40 - Working principle of WDM coupler

Lecture 41 - Fiber Bragg Grating

Lecture 42 - Fiber Bragg Grating (Continued...)

Lecture 43 - Reflectivity Calculation

Lecture 44 - Reflectivity Calculation (Continued...)

Lecture 45 - Reflectivity calculation of FBG (Continued...)

Lecture 46 - Reflectivity calculation of FBG (Continued...)

Lecture 47 - Reflectivity calculation of FBG (Continued...)

Lecture 48 - Bandwidth of reflectivity

Lecture 49 - Basic nonlinear optics

Lecture 50 - Frequency mixing, Optical Kerr effect

Lecture 51 - Optical Kerr effect (Continued...)

Lecture 52 - Self Phase Modulation

Lecture 53 - Self Phase Modulation (Continued...)

Lecture 54 - Self Phase Modulation (Continued...)

Lecture 55 - Pulse propagation in nonlinear waveguide

Lecture 56 - Pulse propagation in nonlinear waveguide (Continued...)

Lecture 57 - Pulse propagation in nonlinear dispersive waveguide

Lecture 58 - Pulse propagation in nonlinear dispersive waveguide (Continued...)

Lecture 59 - Concept of optical soliton

Lecture 60 - Concept of optical soliton (Continued...)