High Performance Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits
ENG-SCI 255
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Description
This course focuses on state-of-the-art electronic-photonic integrated circuits for high-speed communication and computation. It emphasizes the importance of electronic-photonic co-design: maximizing overall performance by holistically co-optimizing electronic and photonic circuits together. Topics span multiple layers of the computing stack, including materials (group IV, III-V, II-VI semiconductors), electro-optic devices (modulators, lasers, photodetectors, semiconductor optical amplifiers), circuits (transceivers, data converters), architectures (distributed computing systems, network switches), and integration techniques (three-dimensional integration of electronics and photonics, optical interposers, monolithic integration). Advanced topics include active optical metamaterials, non-linear optical devices, and digital signal processing in the optical domain.
Course Notes
Open to undergraduate students with instructor permission. Offered every other year.
Recommended Prep
ECE 152, CS 2480, CS 1410, ES 273, or ES 275.
Available for Harvard Cross Registration
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