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PHY 613: Ultrafast Optics and Spectroscopy (4)
Basics laser theory: Einstein coefficient and light amplification, laser rate equations, cavity modes, transverse and longitudinal mode selection, coherence properties.
Ultrashort pulse generation: Active and passive mode-locking, mode-locking using optical Kerr Effect.
Ultrafast-pulse measurement methods: Electric field auto-correlations and power spectrum, Intensity autocorrelations, frequency resolved optical gating (FROG).
Manipulation of ultrashort pulses: Pulse shaping techniques.
Ultrafast time-resolved spectroscopy: Forced wave equations, second harmonic generation, Propagation equation for nonlinear refractive index media, nonlinear Schrodinger equation, self-phase modulation, modulation instability and solitons.
Ulatrafast time-resolved spectroscopy: Degenerate and non-degenerate pump-probe transmission measurements, stimulated Raman scattering.
Terahertz electromagnetic radiations: THz generation and detection, THz time domain spectroscopy and imaging.
Introduction to atto-second science.
Suggested Books:
- Ultrafast Optics by Andrew Weiner
- Laser Spectroscopy edited by Peter Hanna Ford
- Laser Theory and Applications by K. Thyagarajan and A. K. Khatak
- Ultrafast Optics edited by Rick Trebino and Jeff Squier
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