• Organization and administrivia
• Mathematical and physical background
• Introduction to GWO via slab waveguides
• Modal analysis of cylindrical fiber waveguides
• Modal analysis of ridge waveguides in planar circuits
• Silicon photonics
• Bragg waveguides
• Losses and nonlinearities
• The coupled mode method
• Coupling sources to guides including tapers
• Guided wave modulators
• Resonators and filters