PHGN-480 Fall-2015
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Course Information
Professor: Dr. Charles Durfee
Office: Meyer Hall 330
Meeting Times:
class: M W 11:00-11:50 AM Berthoud Hall 205
lab: Th 9-11:50, Meyer Hall 263
Announcements
23 August 2015: Welcome to Laser Physics!
Office hours
Times - tentative: M12:30-3:30, W12:30-2:30
Let me know if you cannot make any of these office hours. I have monthly meetings on wednesdays, so the wednesday hours will occasionally shift to 1-4.
Look for me either in my office or in the advanced lab on the second floor.
TA: Zack Fleegal (zfleegal@gmail.com
TA hours: TBD
Course Material
Syllabus and Reading List
Main text: O. Svelto, Principles of Lasers, 5th edition. It is available for purchase at the bookstore. There is also online access to the book from a campus/VPN connection:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/n72670/#section=672851&page=1
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Homework Assignments and Midterm:
Grading policy:
Turn in homework on time for full credit. At the time we give homeworks back to you, solutions will be available in printed form in a binder that I'll keep, but you can make a copy.
Lab exercises:
This section is for 2015
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Below here are the write-ups for 2013. There will be edits and changes for 2015.
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Final project
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Lecture Notes
While these notes are primarily to help me give my lectures, I'm posting them to help you fill in things you may have missed in class or to show the details of calculations we don't have time to work through. If you have any constructive input on how to make these more useful to read, let me know.
The list of notes shown below is from 2013 - updated notes will be added throughout the semester.
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Mathematica Demos
These aren't actually pdf's. Do a "save link as" to save these to your computer, then open with Mathematica.
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Lab design information
Thorlabs Fabry-Perot interferometer
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Diode-pumped solid state laser
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Thermistor calculator to convert measured resistance to temperature thermistor calculator
Compass 215M single longitudinal mode green laser
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External cavity diode laser
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Links
Wavelength Electronics: Spec page for diode power cable spec page
Siskiyou: Spec page for flexure mirror mount flexure mount page
Thorlabs: diode collimation tube collimation page