Physics 564 (ECE 564 ), Laser Physics II

Mondays and Wednesdays, 15:30:00 to 16:45 pm, tentatively PAIS Room 1140

Spring 2025

Instructor

Jean-Claude Diels

Physics & Astronomy room PAIS 2236, phone 277 4026

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

Topics covered

MANIPULATION OF LASER BEAMS

• Polarization - in Pump-probe experiments time resolved fluorescence
• How good can you maintain polarization?
• Faraday rotation - isolators Magnetic field detection
• Spectral interferometry – How to make a movie of a plasma

Standard solid state lasers

• Vanadate - Nd YAG glass Yb YAG LISAF LICAF
• Multilevel coherent interactions
• Application to Raman transitions Brillouin scattering
• Is there anything such as backward Raman scattering? Lab Demo

BIG SYSTEMS

• Short pulse amplification from GW to TW to PW
• Contrast enhancement

 

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Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO); PPLN

• Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplification (OPCPA)
• PPLN

LASER INDUCED PLASMA

• Electron plasma
• Plasma mirrors
• Making gratings in air without plasma
• Z-pinch diagnostic

LASER COOLING

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS

• Junction, VEcSEL

FIBER LASERS

• Integrated optics lasers