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Contents 1 Course Information 1.1 Announcements 1.2 Office hours 1.3 Course Forum: Supplementary Readings, Homework Solutions 2 Course Material 2.1 Syllabus and Reading List 2.2 Homework Assignments: 2.3 Final project 2.4 Take-home midterm 2.5 Lecture Notes 2.6 Mathematica Demos 3 Course Links

[edit] Course Information

Professor: Dr. Chip Durfee

Office: Meyer Hall 330

Meeting Times: T Th 11:00-12:15 AM

Location: Meyer Hall 353

[edit] Announcements

18 Nov 2008 Homework 5 is posted below. It is a Mathematica .nb file so you can run the code that is included.

5 Nov 2008: There is in fact a part (a) to problem 3 (though this is what you'd have done anyway:

a) Construct the ABCD matrix for this system.

The change is reflected in the current version of the pdf.

3 Nov 2008: A clarification on the last part of problem 3: I'd like you to describe a cavity that is equivalent to the one considered in the earlier part of the problem. This equivalent cavity would have two curved mirrors, and no flat mirrors. The adjustment is reflected in the version currently posted.

8 Sept 2008: Homework 2 is posted below.

[edit] Office hours

Times - tuesday: 2-4, Wednesday 4-5, thursday 2-4

[edit] Course Forum: Supplementary Readings, Homework Solutions

(not up yet) open to class members only:

If you are not already registered for the Forum, go through the registration steps (this is separate from logging into the Wiki).

In any case, email me to let me know what your user name is.

Forum for 480 http://ticc.mines.edu/csm/forum/index.php?f=83

You may want to open this in a new tab or browser window to maintain access to the wiki page.

[edit] Course Material

[edit] Syllabus and Reading List

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader

[edit] Homework Assignments:

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Homework 1: due 4 Sept Homework 2: due 16 Sept Homework 3: due 10 Oct Homework 5: due 25 Oct. This is a Mathematica file: use save link as... to save to your computer

[edit] Final project

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Final project guidelines: these are tentative, so stay tuned for updates. Presentations (15min each} will be during the final two classes. Final report due at beginning of finals week.}

[edit] Take-home midterm

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Take-home midterm: due in class 6 Nov

[edit] Lecture Notes

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader topic 1: intro topic 2: basic rate equations topic 3: plane waves, basic resonator topic 4: Black body radiation topic 5: atomic transitions (basic) topic 6: time-dependent perturbation theory, spontaneous emission topic 7: selection rules for transitions topic 8: radiative and collision broadening topic 9: intro to addition of angular momentum and spectroscopic notation topic 10: examples: HeNe and Nd:YAG topic 11: gain saturation and gain narrowing topic 12: amplifiers and ASE topic 13: gain in molecular systems topic 14: geometric optics and ABCD matrices Resonator examples, ABCD for quadratic index profiles Unstable resonators pumping dynamics Rate equations for CW oscillators 3 level oscillator rate equations, slope efficiency and output power solution of spatially-dependent rate equations, accounting for laser and pump mode sizes wavelength and mode selection laser transients: relaxation oscillations Q switching theory pulse propagation pt1: Fourier thy pulse propagation pt2: group velocity, chirping, convolution theorem fundamentals of modelocking, array theorem Pulse evolution equations for active and passive modelocking

[edit] Mathematica Demos

These aren't actually pdf's. Do a "save link as" to save these to your computer, then open with Mathematica.

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader

[edit] Course Links

Students: when you post links, mark your name and the date of the post

Online Demo's JavaOptics: a nice collection of optics-related demonstrations

Lectures from GaTech (Rick Trebino): a very useful collection of graphics and worked examples in optics

Fabry-Perot demonstration

diffraction by slits

propagating waves, including waveguides (demo in class)