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Professor: Dr. Chip Durfee

Office: Meyer Hall 330

Meeting Times: T Th 11:00-12:15 AM

Location: Meyer Hall 363

Announcements

23 August 2011: Welcome to Laser Physics!

26 August 2010: Homework 1 is posted below. Reading for next time: Svelto 2.2

5 Sept 2010: Homework 2 is posted below. Reading for tuesday: Svelto Appendix A, or equivalently, Griffiths 9.1 - 9.3

8 Sept 2010: When I made up HW2, I wasn't sure how far I'd get in lecture, and I can see that we didn't really get far enough for you to be able to do the last 3 easily. I'll make the homework due Tuesday 14 Sept instead. Also, after answering some questions about the first problem, I have reposted it with clarifications in red.

17 Sept 2010: Homework 3 is posted. Due 28 Sept in class. Remember, I'll be out monday and tuesday for a conference in NM.

27 Sept 2010: We'll have a regular class tomorrow in the classroom. We'll go to the lab on Thursday.

5 Oct 2010: Homework 4 is posted. Reading for this assignment: 6.1-6.3, 7.1-7.3, but leaving out sections concerning space-dependent rate equations.

16 Oct 2010: Homework 5 is posted. Reading for this assignment: chapter 4. Due 26 Oct. Also posted a mathematica notebook on raytracing that I showed in class.

Office hours

Tentative Times - Mon 4-5:30 Tues 12:15-1:15 Wed 4-5:30 Thurs 12:15-1:15

Let me know if you can't make any of these times, and I'll rearrange the schedule

Course Forum: Supplementary Readings, Homework Solutions

(not up yet) open to class members only:

If you are not already registered for the Forum, go through the registration steps (this is separate from logging into the Wiki).

In any case, email me to let me know what your user name is.

Forum for 480 http://ticc.mines.edu/csm/forum/index.php?f=83

You may want to open this in a new tab or browser window to maintain access to the wiki page.

Course Material

Syllabus and Reading List

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Homework Assignments:

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Homework 1: due 2 Sept Homework 2: due 14 Sept (note change!). This version was re-posted with clarifications 8 Sept, 5:30pm Homework 3: due 28 Sept Homework 4: due 14 Oct Homework 5: due 26 Oct Homework 6: due 17 Nov cavity analysis Mathematica file is posted below Take home midterm: 23 Nov by 5pm

Final project

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader Final project guidelines: these are tentative, so stay tuned for updates. Presentations (15min each} will be during the final two classes. Final report due at beginning of finals week.}

Take-home midterm

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Lecture Notes

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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.

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader ABCD_raytracing.nb code ABCD_cavity_analysis.nb code

Course Links

Students: when you post links, mark your name and the date of the post

Online Demo's JavaOptics: a nice collection of optics-related demonstrations

Lectures from GaTech (Rick Trebino): a very useful collection of graphics and worked examples in optics

Fabry-Perot demonstration

diffraction by slits

propagating waves, including waveguides (demo in class)