Course Information

Professor: Dr. Charles Durfee

Office: Meyer Hall 330

Meeting Times:

class: M W 11:00-11:50 AM Meyer Hall 357

lab: Th 9-11:50, Meyer Hall 270

Announcements

5 Nov 2012: HW 5 is posted below.

25 Oct 2012: I have posted a study guide for the midterm below. Please let me know as soon as possible about any questions or clarifications.

17 Sept 2012: Homework 3 is now posted below.

5 Sept 2012: Homework 2 and Lab 2 are posted below.

25 August 2012: Homework 1 is posted below. Also available is a pdf of the lab.

21 August 2012: Welcome to Laser Physics!

Office hours

Times - TBA

TA: Alyssa Allende Motz (aallende@mymail.mines.edu)

TA hours: Th2-4, F1-3

Look for us either in our offices or in the advanced lab on the second floor.

Course Material

Syllabus and Reading List

Additional reading from O. Svelto's book, Principles of Lasers, 3rd edition can be found with online access to the book:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/n72670/#section=672851&page=1

These downloads require Adobe Acrobat Reader

Homework Assignments and Midterm:

Grading policy:

We are aiming for a 1 week turn around on grading homework. At the time we give them back to you, solutions will be available in printed form in a binder that I'll keep, but you can make a copy. Turn in howework on time for full credit. If you turn it in within a week late, we take off 20%. Once the solutions are available and others have theirs graded, then it's too late. If there are extenuating circumtances, please let me know.

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Homework 1: due end of day Monday 3 Sept

Homework 2: due end of day Wednesday (5pm) 12 Sept

Homework 3: due end of day Wednesday (5pm) 26 Sept

Homework 4: due end of day Friday (5pm) 19 Oct

Homework 5: due end of day Wednesday (5pm) 14 Nov

Lab exercises:

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Lab 1: lab skills. Due in class Monday 3 Sept

Lab 2: HeNe gain and lasing. Due by 5pm Monday 17 Sept

Lab 3 HeNe resonator

Lab 4: polarization

Lab 5: diode-pumped solid state laser

Final project

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In-class midterm 29 Oct 2012

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Study guide for midterm

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.

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