Light-Matter Interaction in Quantum Structures

Part I (CV+EB) : Optical properties of solids and nano-structures, opto-electronic devices

- complex dielectric permittivity ; metals and dielectrics

- metals : plasmons, surface plasmons and applications (plasmonics)

- semi-conductors : semi-classical approach to light-matter interaction ; absorption, fluorescence, super-radiance, light amplification

- nano-structures : envelope function approximation ; application to quantum wells, nano wires and quantum dots ; novel nano-structures : 2D materials, nanotubes, perovskites

- photodetectors : elements of device physics, photoconductors, p-n and p-i-n junctions, responsivity, quantum efficiency, noise performances, quantum well infrared photodetectors

-photoemitters :  Kirchhoff's laws, incandescence, electroluminescence, semiconductor laser, SC quantum wells in lasers, quantum cascade lasers

-experimental techniques (single emitter PL, PLE, absorption, micro-cavities...)

Part II (SD): integrated linear and nonlinear semiconductor photonic devices

- Integrated linear photonics: waveguides, coupled mode theory, ring resonators, applications

- Integrated nonlinear photonics: nonlinear coupled wave equations, phase matching and efficiency, applications

- Generation and characterization of quantum states of light: Purcell effect, Jaynes-Cummings model, nonlinear Hamiltonian, photon counting, single and two-photon interferences

Examples of experimental projects :

- single photon generation by perovskite QDs; photon correlations

- 2D materials exfoliation and vdW stacking and PL characterization

- Coupling single colloidal SC QDs to a plasmonic antenna.

- Photon pair generation in SC waveguides

- Quantum cascade IR detector : fabrication and characterization

30% : Experimental project and written report
70% : written final examination : critical discussion of a research paper