Seminar - 40 Years of Photonics Modelling at UFE

You are warmly invited to attend the George Green Institute for Electromagnetics seminar on Friday, 11 March.

Guest Speaker: Prof. Jiří Čtyroký from Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Photonics and Electronics, Prague, Czech Republic

Title: 40 Years of Photonics Modelling at UFE

Abstract: 

Modelling and numerical simulation of integrated photonic structures and devices performed over the past 40 years in the Institute of Photonics and Electronics (UFE) will be briefly reviewed. Following topics will be (tentatively) mentioned:

• About UFE (incl. current researches and experimental facilities at the UFE)
• Methods
  • mode solvers for planar graded-index waveguides
  • mode-matching mode solvers for straight and bent waveguides
  • bi-directional mode expansion propagation method
  • 2D and 3D Fourier modal methods
• Structures and devices
  • leaky modes in anisotropic waveguides
  • surface plasmon waveguide polarizers
  • waveguide structures with an (un)balance of loss and gain
  • subwavelength grating waveguides and devices

 Biography:

Jiří Čtyroký (FinstP, CPhys, IEEE SM, OSA SM) received his Ing. (eqv. Ms) and CSc. (eqv. PhD) degrees from the Czech Technical University in Prague and the DrSc. degree from the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Since 1973 he has been with the Institute of Photonics and Electronics (formerly Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics), presently as Deputy Director for Science. Since 1990 he has also been lecturing at the Czech Technical University, since 2005 as full professor of applied physics. Most of his scientific career he has been interested in theory, numerical modelling, design and simulation of integrated-optic structures and devices.