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SYLLABUS

Some reading material: Ultrafast Phenomena, 3rd edition (draft)

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POLARIZATION

Introduction - simple concepts review of wave, velocities, superposition, velocities, Maxwell's second order to first order equation, slowly varying approximation.

Polarization manipulation, waveplates, Jones matrices   Linear and angular momentum; geometric polarization manipulation by reflection,

review of Fresnel equations --> TIR  --> Fabry-Perot --> FTIR

Polarization Ellipse; Jones matrices

Multiple order waveplates -polarization preserving fibers as sensors and as waveplates

Multiple order waveplates for attosecond pulse generation

Attosecond pulses, CEP and CEO

Part I: Laser oscillators, dispersion, Kerr effect, Ti-sapphire

Part II: Low rep rate combs

high rep-microcomb-Pound-Drever-Hall

Solitons-PDH-continuum

AMPLIFICATION: Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA)

 

Recommended book: "Fundamentals of attosecond physucs" by Dr. Zenghu Chang
 

 

HOMEWORK

Homework I - Polarization - Solution HW1

Homework II Polarizationb gating - approach with 2 frequencies