Nonlinear Optics Spring-2013

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Course Information

Professor: Chip Durfee

Office: Meyer Hall 330

Meeting Times: Monday, Wednesday 11:00-12:15

Room: Hill Hall 211

Office hours: - TBA

Office hours

Office hours:

tentative times - M12:30-3:30, W12:30-2:30

Course Material

Syllabus and Reading List

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Syllabus for the course

Homework Assignments

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Lecture Notes 2011

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Lecture 1: intro, define NL polarization Lecture 2: classical oscillator model Lecture 2: slides Lecture 3: tensor symmetries Lecture 3: slides Lecture 4: time-dependent chi, mixing propagation equations Lecture 5: polarization, birefringence, waveplates Lecture 6: index ellipsoid, birefringent phase matching Lecture 7: electro-optics, quasi-phasematching Lecture 8: beam crossing, pulse autocorrelation Lecture 9: NL index, tensor chi3, polarization gating and NL ellipse rotation

Mathematica Demos

You can use these as a template for programming you want to do. I would like you to attribute me when you do though. These aren't actually pdf's. Do a "save link as" to save these to your computer, then open with Mathematica. In most cases the output has been deleted to save server space, so you have to run the code to see the output. Please note that thee is a bug in the Fourier[ ] routine (FFT) in v7.0.0. This does not show in earlier versions, and was fixed in 7.0.1 and later. (8.0.0 is the current version)

2011 files (these have been updated to run in v8.)

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Nonpert_nlo_response.nb: classical model of time dependent nonlinear response (3rd order), solved with NDSolve. Includes FFT to show harmonic structure chi2map.nb: using classical NL model, map of chi2 vs input frequencies, showing resonance locations Crystal_symmetries.nb: demonstrate effect of crystal symmetries, calculate angular dependence of deff. This has some examples of working with vectors and matrices in Mathematica. Phase_match_KDP.nb: Phase matching program for KDP crystals Mixing_solutions.nb: solutions of simultaneous NL eqns for doubling fft demo.nb: demonstrate numerical Fourier transforms (FFT)

2007 files (written in v5.2, but can be read into v6 or v7 and updated)

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader NL prop code List convolve demo.nb: demonstrate numerical convolutions Hhg_simple_model.nb: kinetic model of electron motion in high-order harmonic generation