The Science of Light Amplification: An Extensive Laser Course
The Science of Light Amplification: An Extensive Laser Course. Instructor: Prof. Paramita Deb, Department of Physics, IIT Bombay. The lectures will introduce different types of lasers invented and developed till now. The underlying principles will be interwoven as the lectures progress. Some of the principles that will be covered are linear optics, non-linear optics, Stimulated emission, population inversion, and optical resonators. Laser applications in Industry and medicine and other fields of science. Also an introduction to Ultrafast laser systems and attosecond physics.
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| Lecture 01 - Introduction to Lasers and the Electromagnetic Spectrum |
| Lecture 02 - Stimulated Emission and Spontaneous Emission and Properties of Laser |
| Lecture 03 - Population Inversion in a Laser Medium |
| Lecture 04 - Laser Oscillations and the Optical Resonator |
| Lecture 05 - Line Broadening Mechanism, Part 1 |
| Lecture 06 - Line Broadening Mechanism, Part 2 |
| Lecture 07 - Laser Resonators, Part 1 |
| Lecture 08 - Laser Resonators, Part 2 |
| Lecture 09 - Gas Laser Examples |
| Lecture 10 - Gas Lasers and Solid State Lasers |
| Lecture 11 - Solid State Lasers |
| Lecture 12 - Pulsed Lasers and Optical Shutters |
| Lecture 13 - Modes and Mode Locking |
| Lecture 14 - The Technique of Mode Locking |
| Lecture 15 - Time Bandwidth Product and Ultra Short Pulse |
| Lecture 16 - Nonlinear Phenomenon in Optics |
| Lecture 17 - Self-focusing and Self-Phase Modulation |
| Lecture 18 - Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) |
| Lecture 19 - Phase Matching and SHG |
| Lecture 20 - Anisotropic Medium and SHG |
| Lecture 21 - Birefringent Crystals and Phase Matching |
| Lecture 22 - Semiconductor Basics |
| Lecture 23 - Photon Absorption and Emission in Semiconductors |
| Lecture 24 - p-n Junction and the Semiconductor Laser |
| Lecture 25 - Types of Semiconductor Laser |
| Lecture 26 - Nuclear Fusion |
| Lecture 27 - Inertial Confinement Fusion |
| Lecture 28 - Master Oscillator and Power Amplifier Chain |
| Lecture 29 - Amplifier Chain |
| Lecture 30 - Chirped Pulse Amplification, Part 1 |
| Lecture 31 - Chirped Pulse Amplification, Part 2 |
| Lecture 32 - Ultra-short-pulse Oscillator |
| Lecture 33 - Ultra-short-pulse Amplification, Part 1 |
| Lecture 34 - Ultra-short-pulse Amplification, Part 2 |
| Lecture 35 - Stretching and Compressing a Pulse |
| Lecture 36 - Stretching and Compressing a Pulse (cont.) |
| Lecture 37 - The Auto-Correlation Technique for Temporal Pulse Measurement |
| Lecture 38 - Frequency Resolved Optical Gating for Temporal Pulse Measurement |
| Lecture 39 - Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) |
| Lecture 40 - Remote Sensing |
| Lecture 41 - Optical Tweezers |
| Lecture 42 - Lasers in Spectroscopy |
| Lecture 43 - Dye Laser |
| Lecture 44 - Tuning a Laser with a Grating |
| Lecture 45 - Details of a Grating |
| Lecture 46 - Multi-Photon Processes |
| Lecture 47 - Laser Enrichment Method |
| Lecture 48 - Laser Raman Spectroscopy |
| Lecture 49 - Polarization of Electromagnetic Waves |
| Lecture 50 - Polarizer and Analyzer |
| Lecture 51 - Interference of Electromagnetic Waves, Part 1 |
| Lecture 52 - Interference of Electromagnetic Waves, Part 2 |
| Lecture 53 - Interference Patterns, Part 1 |
| Lecture 54 - Interference Patterns, Part 2 |
| Lecture 55 - Interference Patterns, Part 3 |
| Lecture 56 - Perot Cavity |
| Lecture 57 - Holography, Part 1 |
| Lecture 58 - Holography, Part 2 |
| Lecture 59 - Holography, Part 3 |
| Lecture 60 - Holography, Part 4 |