This UE covers both some fundamental content and application oriented courses related to nanophotonics.
Half of the courses will be dedicated to introduce and explain the basic concepts underlying the generation, manipulation, guiding, extraction and confinement of light at the micro- and nanoscale. This will include some lectures on optical microcavities, micro/nanolasers, optical waveguides, and plasmonics. Tutorials will be organized in link with these lectures, on plasmonics, microlasers, and photonic crystals.
The other half of the courses and related tutorials will present some applications of these concepts for biosensing, photonic integrated circuits, as well as light trapping and extraction for solar energy harvesting and lightning.
In addition, 4 practicals are organized, enabling the students to get some expertise on both simulation and experimental aspects (Erbium doped fiber amplifiers, and sol-gel photonic crystal fabrication) of micro/ nanophotonics technologies.
The UE includes an additional assignment regarding the analysis of a journal paper on nanophotonics, which will be presented in front of all students during a final session.
At least 2h of seminars from industry representatives (Thalès, CEA, ST…) are also included in the program to give a broader and industrial perspective of the potential of nanophotonic technologies
