Introduction to light as rays, waves, and photons. designs, properties and parameters of optical waveguide, dispersion and attenuation, overview of optoelectronic devices; integrated photonic devices – couplers, gratings, modulators; electro-optic and nonlinear effects; Dielectric waveguides, perturbation and coupled mode theory; Photonic crystals, metamaterials; Integrated optics and photonic integrated circuits; photonic sources and detectors, integrated photonic transceivers; Integrated optical interconnects