Enseignements dans le programme de formation doctorale "Europhotonics" Erasmus Mundus / PhD lecture for the "Europhotonics" Erasmus Mundus PhD programme

Technical modulus "Computational Photonics" in the frame of the PhD school ED 352

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Teacher:

G. Renversez

Objectives:

This course is an introduction to several modal methods in the frequeny domain used nowadays in numerical electromagnetism. After a review of the theoretical backgrounds used by these methods several methods are described.

Duration:

15h

Outline:

• Overview
• Symmetries properties
• Finite element method
• Finite-Difference Time-Domain method

Part "Nonlinear Optics" of the technical modulus "Applications of Computational Photonics" in the frame of the PhD school ED 352

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Teacher:

G. Renversez

Objectives:

To provide the basics of nonlinear optics with an emphasis on propagation problems.

Outline:

• Derivation of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLSE)
• Main properties of the NLSE
• Townes spatial soliton