Revision as of 14:21, 7 September 2013

Course Information

Professor: Dr. Charles Durfee

Office: Meyer Hall 330

Meeting Times:

class: M W 11:00-11:50 AM Meyer Hall 375

lab: Th 9-11:50, Meyer Hall 275

Announcements

7 Sept 2013:

Homework 2 is now posted, due in class Monday 16 Sept.

26 August 2013:

Notes for classes 1 and 2 are posted. I know a lot of material I went through today was new to you and I went quickly through it - don't worry - you'll see more of this in 462, and we'll see plenty of applications as we go along.

23 August 2013:

Homework 1 is posted below. It will be due Monday, 2 Sept.

21 August 2013: Welcome to Laser Physics!

Office hours

Times - W2-5, Th12-2

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: Brenden Villars (bvillars@mymail.mines.edu)

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

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Course syllabus for 2013

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.

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Homework 1: due 2 Sept 2013

Homework 2: due 16 Sept 2013

Lab exercises:

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Lab 1: optical alignment skills

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.

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Class 1: introduction

Class 2: waves, EM waves, energy density