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This course is offered to graduate students and addresses issues regarding ultrafast optics.
333 years, 3 months
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Topics covered include: Generation, propagation and applications of ultrashort pulses (nano-, pico-, femto-, attosecond pulses); Linear and nonlinear pulse shaping processes: Optical solitons, Pulse compression; Laser principles: Single- and multi-mode laser dynamics, Q-switching, Active and passive mode-locking; Pulse characterization: Autocorrelation, FROG, SPIDER; Noise in mode-locked lasers and its limitations in measurements; Laser amplifiers, optical parametric amplifiers, and oscillators; Applications in research and industry: Pump-probe techniques, Optical imaging, Frequency metrology, Laser ablation, High harmonic generation.
Course Currilcum
- Introduction to Ultrafast Optics Unlimited
- Maxwell-Bloch Equation Unlimited
- Nonlinear Pulse Propogation Unlimited
- Rate Equations and Relaxation Oscillation Unlimited
- Master Equation and Active Mode-Locking Unlimited
- Passive Mode-Locking with Fast Saturable Absorbers Unlimited
- Artificial Saturable Absorber Mode-Locking (APM and KLM) Unlimited
- Semiconductor Saturable Absorber Mode-Locking Unlimited
- Pulse Characterization I – Autocorrelation Unlimited
- Noise in Mode-Locked Lasers Unlimited
- Ultrafast Measurement Techniques Unlimited
- Pulse Amplification Unlimited
