English

Every autumn semester

The course aims at providing knowledge about the physical principles of lasers as well as to give an orientation of the different laser types and laser techniques.

•Gaussian beams, propagation through optical components.
•Resonator optics
•Photons and atoms
•Laser amplifiers
•Lasers
•Statistical Optics, coherence

Laboratory exercises: Helium Neon laser, Diode laser, Neodym laser. Project with a ray tracing programme.

know how a laser works.

understand important concepts such as stimulated absorption and emission, homogeneous and inhomogeneous broadening, diffraction, electromagnetic propagation in a cavity, dispersion, amplification, mode-locking.

be able to orient himself / herself among the different lasers for a given application.

independently be able to perform alignments and measurements on different lasers.

be able to calculate conditions for lasing and amplification as well as propagation of a laser beam through optical components.

be able to solve problems in Optics and Lasers.

be able to acquire, integrate and evaluate knowledge and facts from literature in English within the field.

be able to present the results of a project in writing
have an increased experience for working in groups of two or four persons towards a common goal.

Lectures

Laboratory exercises

Exercises

Project

Written exam

Written report

Written assignments

Written exam. Three mandatory laboratory exercises with report. A small project using a ray tracing programme.

Failed, pass

Basic Physics, Mathematics and Optics.

Saleh, B. E. A. & Teich, M. C.: Fundamental of Photonics.

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