The demand for highly qualified engineers trained in Photonics in research and industry is expected to increase significantly in the coming decade, and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Zhejiang University (ZJU) have therefore decided to expand the education in the Photonics area. Thus the Joint Research Center offers a Joint Master Program in Photonics since 2005. The program is intended as a continuation after a Bachelor degree in science or engineering, and it consists of two academic years of study and one semester for thesis work. Students divide their time of study between KTH and ZJU. Lecturers from KTH teach throughout most of the program. Students completing this track will receive a double M.Sc. degree in Photonics issued by KTH and ZJU respectively. The program is open for international students; all courses given by KTH lecturers will be taught in English.

The area of Photonics has undergone dramatic changes during the last few years. From a situation with low visibility and little hope for expansion photonics has become a key area of technology, along with mobile communications, both in large companies and through a number of new enterprises, so called "startups".The Master Program provides a specialization in photonics and optical networking, which is suitable both for industry work and research, where the student after graduation will be attractive on the international job market. The primary direction of the education is towards photonics for data and telecommunications. Other areas of applications, such as biophotonics, are also included.

Career prospects

80% of the students who have graduated from the Joint Sino-Swedish Masters Program in Photonics so far have continued with studies for their PhD degrees at several different universities around the world, including Denmark, Holland and Sweden. The photonics job market is global and expanding due to the increasing use of bandwidth for internet access, increased use of mobile phones etc.

The organizers

The Royal Institute of Technology
The Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, has 1/3 of the Swedish engineering research and university engineering education. The research and education are of high international standard in subjects ranging from all areas of engineering to architecture. KTH is located at several different sites in the Stockholm area, and the KTH departments working in information technology which form the School for Information and Communication Technology, located at the satellite campus in Kista in the northern part of Stockholm. The School of Information and Communication Technology consists of the following departments:
- Computer and Systems Science
- Applied IT with Entrepreneurship
- Microelectronics and Applied Physics
- Electronics and Computer Systems
- Communication Systems
At the Kista campus the Kista Photonics Research Center is also located. The Kista Photonics Research Center is an umbrella organization promoting and giving a structure to the collaboration in the field of Photonics between the private research institute Acreo and the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), in Kista. It regroups about 120 researchers, PhD students and technicians with activities ranging from basic research and education to commercialization of research results and creation of spin-off companies. The KPRC is one of the major centers for Photonics in Europe and is expected to grow in importance with the present coordination of efforts of its two complementary components.
The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) www.kth.se
Laboratory of Photonics and Microwave Engineering www.imit.kth.se/info/OPQ/FMI
Kista Photonics Research Center www.kprc.se

Zhejiang University
Zhejiang University (ZJU) is one of the few top-rank research institutions of higher learning in China. It is a center of high-level teaching and research, where renowned academics from China and other countries work together contributing to the economic development and social progress of China and the world.
ZJU is located in the coastal city Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province. It is a major research university comprised of 21 colleges and has about 43000 full-time students (including undergraduates, graduate students working for master degree, doctoral candidates, and foreign students).
In September 1998, a new Zhejiang University was established on the basis of the amalgamation of the four former individual universities, namely Zhejiang University, Hangzhou University, Zhejiang Agricultural University and Zhejiang Medical University, which were all located in the garden city of Hangzhou. Approved by the State Council, the founding of the new Zhejiang University has been a significant move in the reform and development of China's higher education. The four universities have grown out of the same ancestry, the Qiushi (with the literal meaning of "seeking truth" in Chinese) Academy, which was founded a century ago as one of the earliest institutions of higher learning in China. As a result, they have all inherited from it the spirit of "Qiushi" and at the same time, built up their own distinctive features in teaching and research.
The Department of Optical Engineering, one of the classical and prominent research departments at Zhejiang University, has fostered many optical scientists and engineers in China. For the past 50 years, generations of professors have worked to develop it to be one of the most outstanding research institutions in the nation. The Department of Optical Engineering at Zhejiang University was the first optical engineering specialty established in China, and its fame has been continuously growing both nationally and internationally ever since it’s foundation.
The Department of Optical Engineering Department has close relations to universities, institutes and hi-tech companies with the same research areas all over the world. Every year 15~20 foreign experts visit the Department for lecturing and research collaboration. The Department annually sends 10 persons abroad to attend international conferences and to work at visiting researchers at foreign universities and research institutes. Cooperating with Hamamatsu, a world famous photo-electric company from Japan, the Department has established an international photonic sub-laboratory at Zhejiang University, a cooperation that helps the Department to keep pace with the world technology trends. The researchers in the Department can make full use of available resources in the world to engage in the high level projects.

Zhejiang University: www.zju.edu.cn
Department of Optical Engineering: www.zjuopt.com
Centre of Optical and Electromagnetic Research: www.coer.cn

Joint Research Center of Photonics

The Joint Research Center of Photonics of the Royal Institute of Technology and Zhejiang University (JORCEP) is joint collaboration in research and education between KTH and ZJU. The mission of JORCEP is to enable KTH and ZJU to stay in the forefront of photonics research and acts as a center of excellence in the area of photonics of both universities. As excellence in research can only be maintained by excellence in learning, the center collaborates on both research and education. Thus JORCEP conducts joint research of highest international standard, collaborates on PhD education and offers an international masters program on photonics. The center also organizes international workshops and conferences.
JORCEP was founded in 2003 and has already established itself as one of the most comprehensive Sino-European research collaborations in existence. The center is headed by two Chief Scientists Prof. Lars Thylen and Prof. Sailing He, with the Presidents of the two universities serving as Cochairmen of the board.

Joint Research Center of Photonics www.kth-zju.org

Curriculum

The Joint Masters Program in Photonics is a unique program where lecturers from Sweden and China have joined forces to create a cutting edge photonics education on the international forefront. The program curriculum is based on existing photonics programs at KTH and ZJU. The studies are divided between Sweden and China and students of the program will upon successful completion of their studies receive a double MSc degree from KTH and ZJU. The courses are taught at ZJU in Hangzhou China during the first academic year and at KTH in Stockholm, Sweden during the second academic year. The thesis project can be done either in China or Sweden depending on the student’s preference. All courses, with some exceptions (marked *), are taught in English by lecturers from both KTH and ZJU.
 

Course descriptions

· Advanced Semiconductor Materials

Aim
The aim of the course is to give (i) knowledge on the direct and indirect bandgap semiconductors, their transport and optical properties, (ii) an understanding of various bulk and epitaxial techniques used to fabricate the compound semiconductors, (iii) usefulness of doping and exploitation of compound semiconductor heterostructures for several optical and electrical components, (iv) introduction to organic semiconductors.
After the course, the student should be able to use the properties of compound semiconductors for fabricating high performance electronic and optical component structures. One should be able to propose the necessary processes for fabricating these components and relate their performance to the component structure. One should also be able to understand how an organic semiconductor functions.

Syllabus
Elemental and compound semiconductors, differences in their bandstructures, crystal structure, electrical and optical properties, shallow and deep level dopants , bulk and epitaxial crystal growth techniques, heterostructures, quantum wells, quantum wires, quantum dots, bandgap engineering, optical and electronic components, process technology for fabricating these components, organic semiconductors.

· Fiber-optical Communication

The course content is knowledge of fiber-optical components, links, and systems.
Aim
The course content is knowledge of fiber-optical components, links, and systems. The systems relevant parameters of devices are derived from a physical description, and this forms the basis for designing fiber-optic links. After a completed course the participants should be able to:
- Understand, describe, analyze, and compare the most important devices: light sources, fibers and detectors.
- Design of digital fiber-optic links.

Syllabus
Dielectric wave guides: Attenuation, wavelength dispersion. Light sources: Semiconductor laser, light-emitting diode, rate equations, output power, modulation, noise, laser amplifiers, chirp. Detectors: PIN diode, avalanche diode, responsitivity, bandwidth, noise Systems: Direct detection systems, heterodyne systems, attenuation limitations, dispersion limitations, signal dependent noise, additive noise, bit error rate, optical networks, solitones.

The course content is a treatment of microwave devices and circuits.
Aim

1. After the course the participants should be able to:
2. Understand the theory and characteristics of wave guides and transmission lines
3. Describe, analyse and design simple microwave circuits and devices e g matching circuits, couplers, antennas and amplifiers
4. Describe and coarsely design common systems such as radar and microwave transmission links
5. Handle microwave equipment and be able to make measurements

Syllabus
Circuit theory, wave guides, scattering parameters, impedance transformation, matching, antennas, resonators, passive and active microwave devices, microwave communication systems, radar, microwave measurements.

· Optical Networking

Aim
The aim of this course is to make the students familiar with optical networks and transmission systems engineering, give examples of implemented systems and knowledge of future development including networking issues, limitations and possibilities of the fibre medium and the relevant device technology. The course starts with basics on communication networks. With this review as a background we describe new generation optical networks that attempt to perform several functions in the optical domain. Further we show the design and optimisation issues in WDM networks. Finally we describe transmission properties of optical fiber links and give an overview of important optical devices for optical networks and systems. It is assumed that the student has a prior knowledge in fibre optics systems, e.g. Agrawal: Fibre-optical communications systems or similar.
Syllabus

• Basics on communication networks and layered network models
• The optical layer
• WDM network elements and design
• Optical packet and burst switching
• Optical network survivability
• Transmission system engineering.
• Optical devices and systems

· Optics

Aim
The course has primarily two goals
- to give a deeper and broader insight into optics as a science and a technology, its basic physics and phenomena and their importance for technical applications
- to be a starting point for the following, more specialised courses within the special area of optics and photonics.
The course aims to give the participants the ability of using literature to penetrate most of the problems in optics, be they scientific or technical problems in nature.

Syllabus
Electromagnetic fields, propagation in vacuum and matter. Wave optics. Polarization, interference, optics of thin films, optical measurement techniques. Diffraction, fourier optics, optical information processing. Coherence. Quantum phenomena, lasers and current applications, non-linear optics. Geometrical optics and image formation, optical analysis and design, image quality. Transfer of energy and information; radiometry and photometry.

· Photonics

The course is intended to give a comprehensive treatment of photonics with emphasis on telecommunications. Other major photonics areas of application are also covered.
Aim
To give in depth knowledge of optical communication technology and devices (including photonic integrated circuits, optical amplifiers, semiconductor lasers and optoelectronic integration), and introductory knowledge in some other important areas of photonics (including near-field optics, optical sensors and bio-photonics).
Syllabus

· Principles of Communications

Aim
The course gives a basic knowledge of the principles of communications. It deals with analogue and digital modulation methods, random signals and noise, binary data transmission, information theory and coding.
After the course the participants should be able to:
- Describe and analyze e.g. signal to ratios in linear and angle modulated systems with additive white Gaussian noise
- Describe and analyze e.g. bit error rates in digitally modulated systems with additive white Gaussian noise
- Describe basic information theory and coding

Syllabus
Review of signal and linear systems analysis.
Linear, angle, and pulse modulation
Random signals and noise (additive white Gaussian noise)
Signal to noise ratios in modulations systems
Bit error rates in data communication systems
Introduction to information theory and coding


· Quantum Electronics

The course content is the physics of lasers, non-linear optics and optoelectronic devices.
Aim
The aim of the course in quantum electronics is to give the students a solid basis in modern quantum electronics, ranging from electromagnetic fields and propagation, to the interaction of light and matter, and its application in linear and non-linear optical systems such as lasers and modulators. By employing an internationally widespread textbook, the students will acquire a "standard" knowledge in the area. After the course you should be able to follow the engineering literature on the subject, such as IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics.
Syllabus
Optical resonators, interaction between radiation and atoms, laser oscillation, basic non-linear optics, electro optical modulation, noise in optical systems, detection of light, quantum optics

Admission requirements

As students who successfully complete the program will receive double M.Sc. degrees from KTH and ZJU the admission requirements of both universities apply. Information about the ZJU admission requirements are described elsewhere and below are the requirements from KTH.
A completed Bachelor's degree, corresponding to a Swedish Bachelor's degree (180 ECTS), or equivalent academic qualifications from an internationally recognised university. The university has to be listed in the latest edition of the International Handbook of Universities (http://www.unesco.org/iau/onlinedatabases/list.html).
The Bachelor's degree should be in physics, electrical engineering or equivalent degree, including courses in wave theory, optics and electromagnetic theory (electrostatics and electrodynamics) equivalent to at least 30 ECTS credits, and mathematics (including vector analysis, Fourier analysis, probability density functions, partial differential equations) equivalent to at least 30 ECTS credits.
A very good knowledge of written and spoken English is also required.

Tuition fee

For the first year the tuition fee is, besides the regular tuition to ZJU, 17.500 RMB. The second year there is no tuition fee at all.

Contact

For further inquires please contact:
Prof Lars Thylén: lthylen@kth.se
Prof Sailing He: sailing@zju.edu.cn or sailing@kth.se
Assoc. Prof Erik Forsberg: erikf@zju.edu.cn
Assoc. Prof Gabriel Somesfalean: gabriels@zju.edu.cn

East Building No.5, Zijingang Campus,
Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China
Tel/Fax: +86 571 88206513
Email: jorcep@zju.edu.cn

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