Photonic Materials, 5 op

Core content

• Optical glasses and polymers:
  Common materials used for photonics, fiber and film
• Liquid crystals:
  common LC phases; light propagation in LCs; LC displays
  
• Crystalline materials
• Photonic crystals (1D, 2D, 3D), Metallic optical response

Complementary knowledge

• Glass melting process; polymer preparation; fiber drawing; film deposition techniques; characterization techniques
• Polarized optical microscopy; Defects in LCs; LCs in external fields
• Fabrication and characterization techniques; Linear and nonlinear optics
• Fabrication processes for layered/periodic photonic materials; Plasmonic sensors

Specialist knowledge

• Composition-structure-spectroscopic properties relations; Properties-fiber drawing/film deposition relations
• Structure; phase relations; Liquid crystal polymers; Liquid crystal lasers
• Others (ceramics, crystals for lasers¿)
• Bioinspired photonics; Metamaterials and metasurfaces