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1	Background carrier distributions, pn junctions, carrier injection
2	Photodetectors absorption in bulk semiconductors, displacement currents, gain-bandwidth limits
3	Modulators absorption in quantum wells, quantum confined Stark effect
4	Optical amplifiers population inversion and gain, non-radiative recombination
5	Optical amplifiers coupled electron-photon rate equations, gain saturation, optical confinement
6	Lasers Fabry-Perot resonators, lasing threshold
7	Heterostructure materials optical and electrical properties of alloys, heterostructure band alignment
8	Distributed feedback (DFB) and surface emitting laser resonators T-matrix formalism and coupled mode theory, grating based resonators
9	Review, midterm
10	Tunable optics chirp in semiconductor media, electro-optic effects
11	Modulation small-signal and large signal analysis
12	Noise in optoelectronic devices Langevin theory, shot noise limits, relative intensity noise (RIN) of lasers
13	Systems WDM system design, noise and power budget for fiber optic systems

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