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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

26 August 2015: If you have a Windows laptop, please bring it to the lab.

You can load the software for the power meter using this website:

PM100 software

This should work for any version of Windows.

The camera software is at this site:

Camera software

This only works on Windows 7.

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

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader

Course syllabus for 2015

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.

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader

Homework 1: due 2 Sept 2013

Homework 2: now due 18 Sept 2013. Since this is a mathematical file, do a right click (or control-click) and save the linked file rather than trying to open it directly.

Homework 3: due Monday 30 Sept 2013. Since this is a mathematical file, do a right click (or control-click) and save the linked file rather than trying to open it directly.

Homework 4: due Wednesday 23 Oct 2013.

Homework 5: due Monday 4 Nov 2013.

Lab exercises:

This section is for 2015

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader

Lab 1: optical alignment skills

Below here are the write-ups for 2013. There will be edits and changes for 2015.

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader

Lab 2: HeNe gain and lasing

Lab 2: some background reading about HeNe lasers.

Lab 3: interferometry

Lab 4: HeNe resonator modes

Lab 5: HeNe resonator modes 2

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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Class 1: introduction

Class 2: waves, EM waves, energy density

Classes 2-6: full set of notes

Class 7: material response to EM waves. We didn't finish all of these on Wedenesday.

QM approach to transitions, natural, doppler and collisional broadening

saturation, gain, and amplifiers

interference and interferometers

raytracing, intro to diffractive propagation

diffraction and Gaussian beams

resonator design