Sample Topic Ideas for Final Lab Project

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Devices or Systems

Nanotechnology

Optical Waveguides and Waveguide Devices

Lasers

GaAs/AlGaAs/InGaAsP

Silicon (new)

Waveguide Lasers

VCSELs

Integration of Lasers and Waveguides

Optical Fibers

Waveguide Transmission Lines in Integrated Circuits

Microstrip

Stripline

Coplanar

Power Lines

Resonators/Oscillators

Antennas

Arrays

Integrated

Optical

Plasmas

Engineered Materials/Devices

Polymers in Optical Devices

Photonic Bandgap Materials

Quantum Well Devices

Quantum Dot Devices

Thin/Thick-Film Devices

Modulators

Electro-optic

Acousto-optic

Electroabsorption

Amplifiers

Nonlinear Effects in Materials/Devices

Harmonic Generation

Nonlinear Absorption/Reflection

Nonlinear Polarization

Liquid Crystals