ECE 531
ECE 531 - Theory of Guided Waves
Fall 2021
| Title | Rubric | Section | CRN | Type | Hours | Times | Days | Location | Instructor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Theory of Guided Waves | ECE531 | C | 60274 | LEC | 4 | 0930 - 1050 | T R | 3081 Electrical & Computer Eng Bldg | Victoria Shao |
| Theory of Guided Waves | ECE531 | ONL | 75743 | OLC | 4 | - | Victoria Shao |
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Official Description
Propagation of electromagnetic waves in general cylindrical waveguides; stationary principles; non-uniform inhomogeneously filled waveguides; mode and power orthogonality; losses in waveguides; analytical and numerical techniques; microwave integrated circuits waveguides; optical waveguides. Course Information: Prerequisite: ECE 520. Recommended: MATH 556.
Subject Area
- Electromagnetics, Optics and Remote Sensing
Description
Propagation of electromagnetic waves in general cylindrical waveguides; stationary principles; non-uniform inhomogeneously filled waveguides; mode and power orthogonality; losses in waveguides; analytical and numerical techniques; microwave integrated circuits waveguides; and optical waveguides.
Topics
- Review of electromagnetic theory
- General cylindrical waveguides, mode orthogonality, power flow
- Numerical technique for analyzing general shape waveguides
- Vector wave function and dyadic Green's function of a waveguide
- Inhomogeneously filled waveguide and mode orthogonality
- Probe excitation, input impedance, and aperture coupling in a waveguide
- Waveguide discontinuities and junctions
- Dielectric slab waveguides, optical fibers, and discontinuities in dielectric waveguides
- Weakly guided optical waveguide, WKB analysis
- Effective index method, beam propagation method, and ray tracing method for analyzing optical waveguides
- Microwave integrated circuits waveguides and its quasistatic and full-wave analysis
- Optical solitions, KdV equation, and their relation to inverse scattering
Detailed Description and Outline
Topics:
- Review of electromagnetic theory
- General cylindrical waveguides, mode orthogonality, power flow
- Numerical technique for analyzing general shape waveguides
- Vector wave function and dyadic Green's function of a waveguide
- Inhomogeneously filled waveguide and mode orthogonality
- Probe excitation, input impedance, and aperture coupling in a waveguide
- Waveguide discontinuities and junctions
- Dielectric slab waveguides, optical fibers, and discontinuities in dielectric waveguides
- Weakly guided optical waveguide, WKB analysis
- Effective index method, beam propagation method, and ray tracing method for analyzing optical waveguides
- Microwave integrated circuits waveguides and its quasistatic and full-wave analysis
- Optical solitions, KdV equation, and their relation to inverse scattering
Texts
Recommended:
R.E. Collin, Field Theory of Guided Waves, IEEE Press, 1992.
T.Okoshi, Optical Fibers, New York: Academic Press, 1992.
R.E. Collin, Field Theory of Guided Waves, IEEE Press, 1992.
T.Okoshi, Optical Fibers, New York: Academic Press, 1992.
Last updated
2/13/2013