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Content-summary
TOPICS
Topics
Laser Cavity, Mode-Locking, frequency combs
Complex representation of the fields
DIFFRACTION
ppt file: Fresnel-paraxial-Fraunhoffer_from_Maxwell's equations
Diffraction-Fresnel-cornu-Fraunhofer
Gratings and prisms as dispersive elements
Reading material on gratings and prisms
Crystal Optics
Reading material - “Handbook of nonlinear optics”
by Richard L. Sutherland - tensors
“Handbook of nonlinear optical crystals”
by Dmitriev, Gurzadyan and Nikogosyan - Excerpts
POLARIZATION
Linear – elliptical - circular
Construct through components
Polarization and coherence
Polarization manipulations part 2
Polarizers-Faraday rotation - quarter-wave problems
Tunneling-attosecond-polarization_gate
Polarization_gate_-second_approach
Jones matrices for polarization (pdf)
Jones marices for polarization (animation)
Waveplate versus interferometer (ppt) / Waveplate versus interferometer (pdf)
Explaining circular phase shift and Faraday rotatin with clockwise and counterclckwise clocks
(see also polarization overview page 15)
WAVEGUIDING
transmission_line_to_waveguide (ppt)
transmission_line_to_waveguide (pdf) Text version
FIBERS
Reading material:
Waveguides (Book "fibers" from John Buck
Fibers (Book "fibers" from John Buck
Snitzer 61: Cylindrical waveguide modes
Polarization rotation -- nonlinear pdf version
Mutual saturation: 1 + 1 = 3! (?)
Cross phase modulation
Mode-locked fiber lasers
Velocities in fibers
Phase velocity, group velocity, velocity in gain/absorber
PROJECT
Paper of Beth - angular momentum
Style tips, presentation
HOMEWORKS
Homework 1: Gaussian beams as diffraction problem