PHYS 464 001 https://dielslab.unm.edu/sites/default/files/introduction_August19-2024.pps
MW 1100-1215
PAIS-1160
INTRODUCTION
Different waves /wave propagation equation (first order) to Maxwell's second order propagationi equation / wave addition / coherent vs incoherent.
ppsx_8-19; LISA
Introduction2: Wave combination, phase on reflection/transmission, Doppler.
Angular momentum and laser gyroscopes
LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTION
MAXWELL'S EQUATIONS, POLARIZATION, FOURIER TRANSFORMS
fOURIER REVIEW applied to complex description of the field, pulse description
Fourier properties (pdf file)
Convolutions - applied to measurements. Transient polarization
Practical applications of Fourer transforms
Wigner function - uncertainty principle free inductio decay - poton echoes (9-16-2024)
line broadening_rate_equations_9-18
Rate equations - line broadening 9-23
Blackbody radiation - Einstein
RESONATORS
Fabry-Perot and microresonators Reading: Interfaces - phase relationships, Matrix methods
Gaussian beams
A qualitative overview on Gaussian beams
No plane wave at the beam waist
Beam propagation - Gaussian approximationi
ABCD matrices - space-time analogy
Mode-locking - nonlinear cavity
Review
The following lecture is attempting to get a physical rather than mathematical picture of cavity modes
space-time, modes, laser frequecies
HOMEWORK
Homework I: DOPPLER
Homework I solutions -- Duckling transverse Doppler
HomeworkII: Fourier transforms
Homework III: Relations between transition frequency parameters.
Homework IV; Laser example
Homework V: ABCD space and time matrices for the Ti:sapphire laser
PROJECT