Physics
7810
Section 1: Ultrafast Optics
Spring
2011
Class
Location
and Time:
Ultrafast Optics will
not
be taught Spring of 2011
For interested
students, the special topics course offered by Prof. Markus Raschke
will cover similar material.
If you are
interested in taking this course in the future, please e-mail Steve
Cundiff
Instructor:
Steven Cundiff
Contact Information:
Office: A500 JILA
E-mail: cundiff..at..jila.colorado.edu
Phone: 2-7858
Office hours: Wednesdays 2:00 -
3:00 or by appointment
Texts:
Required:
A.M. Weiner,
"Ultrafast Optics", John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 978-0-471-41539-8
Recommended:
Diels and Rudolph
“Ultrashort Laser Pulse Phenomena, 2nd ed.” Academic Press, ISBN
978-0122154935
Trebino, "Frequency
Resolved Optical Gating” Springer, ISBN 1402070667
Ye and Cundiff, "Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb Technology"
Springer, ISBN 0-387-23790-9
Topics:
Review of laser basics
Fundamentals
Description of pulse,
temporal and spectral phase, chirp
Time-bandwidth
product for various pulse shapes
Propagation
Nonlinearity
Numerical
modeling of propagation
Optics and dispersion
Phase velocity, group
velocity, GVD, GDD, units thereof
Dispersion of
materials, glass, air…
Measurement of
dispersion
Dispersion
compensation (prisms, gratings, negative dispersion mirrors)
Sources
Modelocking (active,
passive)
Saturable
absorbers, types: real vs. effective
Time versus
frequency domain descriptions, pulse trains (basics of combs)
Pulse
propagation, “master” equation, dispersion management
Pulse shaping
Fourier
Space-to-time
mapping
Diagnostics and
measurement
Autocorrelation
FROG
SPIDER
Spectral
interferometry
Amplification
Chirped pulse
Regenerative,
multi-pass
Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Transient Absorption
Transient Grating
Coherent
Phenomena: Optical Bloch Equations
Photon Echoes
Two-D
Faraday/Kerr
rotation
Ultrafast Processes
in Matter
Atoms
Molecules
Solids
Biological
High Harmonic/X-ray
Generation
Carrier-envelope
phase effects
THz generation
Time-domain THz
spectroscopy
Imaging
Combs: absolute
frequency metrology, optical atomic clocks
Date
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Lecture
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Homework
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Tuesday Jan.
11, 2011
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Organizational
Review of Laser Basics
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Thursday,
Jan. 13, 2011
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Tuesday, Jan
18, 2011
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Thursday,
Jan. 20, 2011
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Tuesday,
Jan. 25, 2011
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Thursday,
Jan. 27, 2011
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Tuesday,
Feb. 1, 2011
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Thursday,
Feb. 3, 2011
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Tuesday,
Feb. 8, 2011
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Thursday,
Feb. 10, 2011
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Tuesday,
Feb. 15, 2011
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Thursday,
Feb. 17, 2011
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No Class
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Tuesday,
Feb. 22, 2011
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Thursday,
Feb. 24, 2011
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Tuesday,
Mar. 1 2011
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Thursday,
Mar. 3, 2011
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Tuesday,
Mar. 8, 2011
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Thursday,
Mar. 10, 2011
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Tuesday,
Mar. 15, 2011
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Thursday,
Mar. 17, 2011
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Tuesday,
Mar. 22, 2011
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No Class --
Spring Break
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Thursday,
Mar. 24, 2011
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No Class --
Spring Breat
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Tuesday,
Mar. 29, 2011
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Thursday,
Mar. 31, 2011
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Tuesday,
Apr. 5, 2011
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No Class
(Tentative)
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Thursday,
Apr. 7, 2011
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Tuesday,
Apr. 12, 2011
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Thursday,
Apr. 14, 2011
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Tuesday,
Apr. 19, 2011
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Thursday,
Apr. 21, 2011
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Tuesday,
Apr. 26, 2011
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Thursday,
Apr. 28, 2011
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