KVL / Klausuren / MAP 1.HS: 17.10  2.HS: 12.12  Zw.Sem.: 20.02  Beginn SS: 16.04

4020225090 Nichtlineare Optik      VVZ  

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Do 13-15
 wöch. NEW 14 1'13 (24) Misha Ivanov
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Mi 17-18
 wöch. NEW 14 1'13 (24) Misha Ivanov
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Mi 18-19
 wöch. NEW 14 1'13 (24) Misha Ivanov

Präsenzkurs

Unterrichtssprache
EN
Lern- und Qualifikationsziele
Part 1: Nonlinear response at the microscopic level
- Fundamentals of Light-Matter Interaction
- Derivation of nonlinear susceptibilities using time-dependent perturbation theory
- Quadratic and cubic susceptibility, Kerr effect

Part 2: Nonlinear macroscopic response
- Different equations used for the description of nonlinear light propagation: Slowly varying envelope approximation, weak reflection approximation etc.
- Wave mixing: Second Harmonic Generation, Difference Frequency Generation
- Phase Matchting
- Propagation in media with Kerr nonlinearity: Self-phase modulation, self-steepening, spectral broadening of the pulse
- Optical phase conjugation,
- Nonlinear Schroedinger equation and temporal solitons in Kerr media
- Self-focusing: critical power and self-focusing length

Part 3: Current frontiers:
- Laser filamentation
- Electromagnetically induced transparency and Slow light
- High harmonic generation
- Above Threshold Ionization
Voraussetzungen
Bachelor in Physik, Grundkenntnisse in Optik und Quantenmechanik
Gliederung / Themen / Inhalte
This is a theory course which includes 1) Nonlinear response of quantum systems to light at the microscopic level, 2) Nonlinear Macroscopic response and nonlinear effects such as wave mixing, Kerr effect, self-focusing, self-phase modulation, high harmonic generation, laser filamentation, temporal and spatial solitons, nonlinear spectroscopies
Zugeordnete Module
P25.4.a P25.4.b P35.2
Umfang, Studienpunkte; Modulabschlussprüfung / Leistungsnachweis
4 SWS, 6 SP/ECTS (Arbeitsanteil im Modul für diese Lehrveranstaltung, nicht verbindlich)
Klausur oder muendliche Pruefung.
Sonstiges
Please contact Prof. Mikhail Ivanov, mivanov@mbi-berlin.de, at the start of the semester with your email details. You will then receive detailed lecture notes and all information regarding in class/on-line teaching.
Ansprechpartner
Prof Mikhail Ivanov, mikhail.ivanov@mbi-berlin.de
Literatur
R. W. Boyd. Nonlinear Optics. Academic Press
Y. R. Shen. The Principles of Nonlinear Optics. Wiley
B.E.A. Saleh, M.C. Teich. Grundlagen der Photonik. Wiley-VCH
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