COURSE TITLE: EECS 308 Advanced Electromagnetics and Photonics

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Electromagnetic waves, transmission lines; impedance transformation; transients on lines; wave reflection and transmission; metallic waveguides and wave transmission; antenna and diffraction, antenna arrays, communication, and radar.

REQUIRED TEXTS:

Ulaby, Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics , Prentice Hall, 2004 Media Edition

Edminister, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Electromagnetics , McGraw-Hill

COURSE COORDINATOR: Horace Yuen

COURSE GOALS: To provide the electrical engineering student with detailed information regarding key applications of electromagnetic fields and waves in modern communications technology, especially antennas, fiber optics and photonic devices.

PREREQUISITE: EECS 224

ORGANIZATION: Three lectures per week with weekly labs. Weekly homework assignment.

DETAILED COURSE TOPICS:

Week 1 Review of Maxwell's equations and plane wave propagation. Review of plane
wave reflection and transmission at normal incidence

Week 2 Review of transmission lines, transients

Week 3 Plane wave reflection and transmission at oblique incidence.

Week 4 Geometric optics. Images formed by mirrors and lenses.

Week 5 Waveguides: Infinite parallel metal plate waveguide. Propagation and cutoff
phenomena. Hollow rectangular metal waveguide.

Week 6 Waveguides, continued: Hollow circular cylindrical metal waveguide. Dielectric waveguides including sheets and rods. Fiber optics.

Week 7 Radiation and antennas: The short dipole. Antenna radiation characteristics.
Half-wave dipole antenna.

Week 8 Radiation and antennas, continued: Aperture antennas. Antenna arrays.

Week 9 Contemporary applications of antennas: Friis transmission formula. Satellite
communication systems. Global positioning system. Cellular telephone systems. Radar and radar cross section.

Week 10 Contemporary photonic devices, including micron-scale waveguides, couplers,
resonators, photonic bandgap structures, and lasers.

LABORATORY PROJECTS:

Week 2. Transients on transmission lines, part 1.

Week 3. Transients on transmission lines, part 2.

Week 4. Sinusoidal excitation of transmission lines, part 1.

Week 5. Sinusoidal excitation of transmission lines, part 2.

Week 6. Propagation in unbounded media.

Week 7. Interference in electromagnetic waves.

Week 8. Sinusoidal excitation of waveguides.

Week 9. Propagation below cutoff frequency.

Week 10. Characteristics of antennas.

1) Key aspects of the behavior and design of antennas for wireless communications systems,
including satellite direct-broadcast and terrestrial cellular / personal communications systems.

2) Propagation and cutoff behavior of electromagnetic wave modes in metal waveguides
comprised of parallel plates, rectangular pipes, and circular pipes.

3) Waveguiding phenomena for light in optical fibers.

4) Electromagnetic phenomena associated with contemporary photonic devices, including
micron-scale waveguides, couplers, resonators, photonic bandgap structures, and lasers.

ABET CONTENT CATEGORY: 100% Engineering (Design component).