4020165174 Laser Physics
Digital- & Präsenz-basierter Kurs
- classroom language
- DE
- aims
- Light-matter interaction, optical Bloch equations, optics, resonators, types of lasers, laser theory, basics of laser spectroscopy, selected applications (e.g., ultrashort pulses, laser cooling, optical switching and optical communications, nonlinear optics)
- requirements
- Basic knowledge from bachelor training in electrodynamics, optics, and quantum mechanics
- structure / topics / contents
- 1. Wave optics and propagation of light (resonators,
photonic crystals, and metamaterials)
2. Light-matter interactions (semiclassical picture)
3. Optical amplification and laser
4. Types of lasers, sources of coherent radiation
5. Applications: optical frequency conversion,
nanooptics, plasmonics)
6. Quantization of the electromagnetic field (Fock
states, thermal and coherent states, coherence
properties)
7. Quantum-mechanical light-matter interaction
(Jaynes-Cummings model)
- assigned modules
-
P23.4
Pe23.4
- amount, credit points; Exam / major course assessment
- 6 SWS, 8 SP/ECTS (Arbeitsanteil im Modul für diese Lehrveranstaltung, nicht verbindlich)
Regular participation in and solving of exercises, Written or oral exam as final examination in the basic optics module P23.4.1
- other
- Introductory lecture for the specialization P23.4 Optics/Photonice.
- contact
- Prof. Dr. T. Elsässer, Max-Born-Institut, Haus C, Raum 2.1, elsasser@mbi-berlin.de, 030-6392-1400, Prof. A. Saenz, HU Physik, NEW15, Raum 2.208, saenz@physik.hu-berlin.de, 030-2093-4902
- literature
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D. Meschede. Optik, Licht und Laser. Teubner
B. E. A. Saleh, M. Teich. Grundlagen der Photonik. Wiley
F. K. Kneubühl, M. W. Sigrist. Laser. Teubner
O. Svelto. Principles of Lasers. Plenum
G.A. Reider. Photonik. Springer
M. Fox. Quantum Optics - an Introductionin. Oxford University Press
G. Grynberg, A. Aspect, C. Fabre. Introduction to Quantum Optics. Cambridge University Press
M. O. Scully, M. S.Zubairy. Quantum Optics. Cambridge University Press