Douglass
Schumacher
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Course Announcement | Laser Facilities |
January 4. First day of class.
January 5. Lecture notes section
created. Go download the notes for next Monday's lecture (starting
on page 17).
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| Lecture | Notes | 2/22 | p104 laser-output |
| 1/9 | p17 - 22a | 2/27 | p110 survey 1: output coupling, NLO, spectrum, Q-Switching |
| 1/18 | p31
(degenerate states) p33-37 (saturation) |
2/29 | p134 modelocking |
| 1/23 | p38-45 (matrix optics) | 3/5 | p145 coherence |
| 1/30 | p47-54_gaussian | 3/7 | short FEL discussion |
| 2/1 | p55-63_cavity | ||
| 2/6 | p64-73_cavity | ||
| 2/8 | cavity recap and hw1.5 | ||
| 2/13 | p76 stability against perturbations | ||
| 2/20 | p98 laser operation |
| #1 | Assignment | solution |
| #2 | Assignment | solution |
| #3 | Assignment Excel Sheet | solution |
| #4 | Assignment | solution |
| #5 | Assignment | solution |
| #6 | Assignment | solution |
| #7 | Assignment | solution |
| Gaussian Modes Illustrated | Computer generated idealized case, as opposed to the handout I gave you. |
| Cavity Mode | Shows your location in the stability diagram as you modify cavity parameters. Find a configuration that gives you a large mode everywhere. Try other variations. |
| Laser dynamics | You select the pump/loss/decay parameters and it solves the rate equations. Excellent for understanding self-Q-switching, transient response, and the approach to steady-state. |
| Fourier Synthesis | Uses your speakers so you can hear the result. |
| Movies | There are a couple movies at this site near the bottom of the page. Probably not anything you don't already understand (after taking this course), but satisfying to watch anyway. |
| Group velocity and phase velocity | Simple illustration of how a wave looks when differing speeds are used. Try it at the highest frequency and follow the motion near the node in the envelope function. |
| Group Velocity Demonstration | Allows you to superpose two arbitrary waves specified using C-like syntax. |
| Fermat's Principle | Illustrated for reflection and refraction. |
| Subluminal | Illustrates how a pulse can appear to propagate faster than light. (The author should have named it "superluminal" I suppose.) I like this one. |
| Societies | Journals | Sites w/ Relevant Content | Lasers | Articles | Laser Tutorials | For the Hobbyist | A Few Laser Companies |
| OSA -- Optical Society of America |
| IEEE -- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| SPIE -- The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| OSA Online Journals Applied Optics, JOSA A, JOSA B, Optics Express, and Optics Letters. |
| IEEE Journal Of Quantum Electronics |
| Optics and Photonics News |
| Laser Focus World |
| Photonics |
| The Industrial Physicist (American Institute of Physics) often has articles of importance to lasers and optics. |
| Why You Need Chirped Pulse Amplification |
| Chirped Pulse Amplification |
| St. Andrews Ultrashort Pulse Laser Tutorial |
| Trebino's FROG site |
| * OpticsNotes |
| Free electron laser at UCSB |
| X-Ray Laser |
| * Quantum Optics and Atom Optics |
| Science magazine has a special issue on coherence. See it here. |
| Rami Arieli - The Laser Adventure - extensive, with discussion of a variety of applications. |
| The Homebuilt Lasers Page |
| The Laser, Optics and Holography Ring |
| Coherent, Inc. |
| Spectra-Physics |
| Quantronix |