Introduction to Optoelectronics and Photonics

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This is part of my series on semiconductor physics (often called Electronics 1 at university). This is based on the book Semiconductor Physics and Devices by Donald Neamen, as well as the EECS 170A/174 courses taught at UC Irvine.
Hope you found this video helpful, please post in the comments below anything I can do to improve future videos, or suggestions you have for future videos.

[@adityavarmamuppala437]

Hey Jordan I'm currently doing a PhD in electronics and would like to say you're doing a great service with these videos. Keep them up.

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

Aw thanks :D I wish you much success in your Ph.D.

[@adityavarmamuppala437]

Jordan Edmunds You too!

[@ThomasCorfield]

Your digital blackboard is so satisfying to watch. Thanks so much for this excellent content.

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

Thank you sir :)

[@aatt3209]

I absolutely share your enthusiasm for phontonics+optoelectronics, given that it is multi-disciplinary, it truely keeps you on your toes learning as much as you can.

[@navyjosh1]

Okay due to covid-19 all my classes are online. I'm taking opto-electronics... and this playlist is DEFINITELY going to be a huge resource for me.0

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

Yeah me too xD Hope it’s useful.

[@adrianastros1584]

These videos mean the world to me.

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

This comment made me smile :)

[@ano255t3]

My prof. from solid state devices course made a heterostructure with AlGaAs and GaAs to make a infrared detector in 2005. He mentioned it in one of his lectures. Thank you for sharing these videos. It helps a lot to learn a subject from different perspective.

[@srijanisallyouneed]

Great Series Sir 🎉 ♥️ From Kolkata, India🇮🇳🙏🏻

[@liadsagi3]

As an ECE student , this videos are awesome! Thanks! [ By the way, I like the balance of explanations to equations but, it might be nice if you could make extra videos where you go more deeply to some of the math.] Thanks again :)

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

Oh don’t worry, this intro video is just to get my thoughts together. There will be plenty of math ;)

[@liadsagi3]

​@@JordanEdmundsEECS 😅 awesome.

[@sazzadhossain9655]

@@JordanEdmundsEECSthanks for not overwhelming with equations! I’m a keen student and enthusiast of Electrical engineering but the intense amount of math and equations scares me off. I would love to get the big ideas and concepts right first before diving into the math. Would love your advice on that on how to navigate around that since I have genuine interest in the field.

[@lambda4931]

Thank you! I really enjoy your videos! In my own amateur way I am working on finding a way to modulate light with only light.

[@IldarNabi]

Jordan, thanks for your videos! Just to clarify - in the case of InGaAs/GaAs quantum well the energy gap of GaAs should be larger than that of InGaAs.

[@jordanedmunds4460]

Whoops, silly me.

[@rabihramadan6252]

very informative and to the point and really a good basics foundation

[@atzinesmeralda]

Hey! You forgot to mention the relation with Solid State Chemistry ! Anyway, it was a really nice video. Thanks.

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

XD Ah my ignorance of chemistry rears its head once again. Someday...

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

Thanks!

[@user-uk9bj1qg3q]

thank you

[@vineethsasidharan5067]

you are just awesome!

[@mmjafarabadi]

Thanks a lot for sharing the video. Where can I watch the rest of this playlist? I mean how is this video going to be continued?

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

You can find the playlist here: m.kzbin.info/aero/PLQms29D1RqeJQhEGjEqZVXDtuQWtuqr1h

[@vineethsasidharan5067]

could you cover leds and may be sleds also

[@vishalpawar4150]

Explanation is very excellent sir. Your topic of interest is absorption! I want to investigate about reflection? Where and how can I go further? Please guide if you know! I want relation between reflection of a em wave and Fermi energy of materials which reflects it? What should I refer?

[@kava8902]

Jordan have you heard of the company POET Technologies? They've apparently created a revolutionary Optical Interposer and Optical Engine. All their testing is complete and they are working with customers to integrate into products. I'd be interested in your opinion on the technicals they've released.

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

No I have not, it sounds cool but since it's wafer-level that's going to be very annoying for all the poor folks that don't buy whole wafers and rely on other fabs to send them chips. A whole wafer can easily run in the multiple millions of dollars, so it's not cheap.

[@yarabanda9639]

Thanks for this amazing playlist!! Could you please recommend a beginner-level/basic book on optoelectronics and photonics?

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

Hmmm, I don’t know that there are any good “beginner” books, the simplest one is probably the one by S.O. Kasap, it’s pretty decent.

[@user-my4vb8pd4v]

Thanks sir

[@venumadhavrallapalli]

I am a non-electronics (mechanical) student. What are the pre-requisite subjects to be covered to understand this course?

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

1. A course in introductory semiconductor physics (I have a whole playlist for that) and 2. A basic circuits class (so you understand things like RC circuits and frequency response) and 3. An understanding of plane waves / basic electromagnetism and 4. A basic grasp of quantum mechanics and understanding the wavefunction (this is usually bundled into a semiconductor physics course or a course on modern physics)

[@krystianczekaj4639]

thank you so much

[@ashlynnundlall]

Can you cover LED's and Laser Diodes. Gas detection with a laser.

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

Yup I will be covering LEDs, most of the Course is on semiconductor lasers (which are the same thing as laser diodes).

[@NeyPenido]

Im from Brazil and I guess the only way I am going to get contact with classes like these are internship in a lab, even our undergrad best courses in the country do not have optoelectronics.

[@wilurbean]

What background or degree path is best for this? Seems like a dual degree in applied physics and ece

[@ashlynnundlall]

Hi where the Playlist you had on Neaman's book ?

[@JordanEdmundsEECS]

That’s my semiconductor physics and devices playlist

[@limlisan1718]

Hello, do anyone know if I can use BSc optoelectronics/photonics to apply a MSc of Electrical Engineering? What job can a graduate of BSc optoelectronics/photonics have?

[@joanaggas3079]

Is there any to use the Weyl semimetal in medicine?

[@KidNamedVashin]

Kid named thank you

[@yunestaku50]

thank you so much