Revision as of 00:39, 9 September 2010

Course Information

Professor: Dr. Chip Durfee

Office: Meyer Hall 330

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

Location: Meyer Hall 363

Announcements

23 August 2010: 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.

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 1: due 9 Sept

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.

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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)