Nonlinear Optics -- PHYC 568, Spring 2024

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Nonlinear optics, Optics 568

Mondays and Wednesdays, 14:30 – 15:45

PAIS 1140

Instructor

Jean-Claude Diels

Physics & Astronomy room PAIS 2236, phone 277-4026

CHTM, room 114A, phone 272-7830
Email: jcdiels@unm.edu

Office hours by appointment

Teaching Assistant

Ali Rastegari, arastegari@unm.edu

Reference material

Reference material will be posted on the Website:

SEMI-CLASSICAL APPROACH TO NONLINEAR OPTICS.  Book Chapter 3

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Third order susceptibility: self phase modulation, shock: the content is:

THIRD ORDER SUSCEPTIBILITY

  • As approximation of Bloch vector model for two photon transitions
  • As a source of light through
  • Self phase modulation
  • Shock
  • At the origin of Self Trapping and self focusing
  • From self focusing to filaments
  • Nonlinear Schroedinger equation in 2D (unstable): the Townes soliton
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FILAMENTS Nonlinear Schroedinger equation + higher order term

  • Gaussian-like solution / evolution equation
  • Moving focus
  • Bessel beam
  • Experiments to understand filaments
  • Radiation from filaments (SPM? Shock? 4WM? Xwaves?
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Overview of effects related to third order scusceptibility

Velocities

Raman and Brillouin

Second order

From classical waves to quantum waves

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REFERENCE MATERIAL