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High Speed Semiconductor Optoelectronics

Code EE5670
Type Theory
Credits 3
Semester Aug-Nov 2026
Segments 16
Time Slot A
Classroom EE-20-2F
Instructor Dr. Naresh Emani
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Contents

Module I: III-V alloy engineering, heterojunction band alignment, strain, quantum well physics, and optical confinement.

Module II: Optical gain, LED, laser, modulator, and photodetector DC operation, plus device characterisation techniques.

Module III: Laser rate equations, small-signal modulation, bandwidth analysis for modulators and photodetectors, large-signal transient simulation, and chirp propagation.

Module IV: Photonic integration, coherent transceivers, SOAs, and AI optical interconnect architectures, including co-packaged optics and the 800G–1.6T–3.2T transceiver roadmap.