Quantum Electronics: Lasers and Nonlinear Optics

Lasers
Physics 880I20, #15261-6 (Spring)
1042 Smith Laboratory
TR @ 1:30

Nonlinear Optics
Physics 880C20, #18894-9 (Winter)
285 Baker Engineering Systems Building
MWF @ 12:30

Douglass Schumacher
Phone: 292-7035
Office: 1106F, Smith Laboratory.
Office hours: by appointment, but feel free to stop by.
dws@mps.ohio-state.edu

Class Text: Quantum Electronics Third Edition, Amnon Yariv.

Other references:

(*) The texts by Siegman and Boyd are especially good companion texts for this course.

Other Information on this web page:

 

Homework:

Homework Solutions (in pdf format)

#1 #2 #3 #4
#5 #6 #7 #8

 

Laboratory:

My Lab Safety Manual

 

The dye laser lab will be held in 1087 Smith at 9:00 a.m.

Monday, 2/12 Kenn, TJ
Tuesday, 2/13 Laslo
Wednesday, 2/14 Dedra, Jennifer
Thursday, 2/15 Jumpei
Friday, 2/16 Katharina, Andrei

 

Pockels Cell Lab Schedule

Wednesday, 5/2, 10:00 a.m. Camelia and Andrei
Wednesday, 5/2, 2:00 p.m. Lazlo
Thursday, 5/3, 10:00 a.m. Kenn
Friday, 5/4, 10:00 a.m. Kat
Friday, 5/4, 2:00 p.m. Jennifer

 

Links To Pages With Short Descriptions On
Short Pulse Laser Design

Why You Need Chirped Pulse Amplification
Chirped Pulse Amplification

SHG Lab Schedule
Lab starts at 10:00 a.m.
If you have to leave to do some other work,
you may return later in the day.

Monday, 6/4 Jennifer and Kenn
Tuesday, 6/5 Camelia and Andrei
Wednesday, 6/6 Kat
Thursday, 6/7 Sarko

Some links:

Societies

OSA -- Optical Society of America
SPIE -- The International Society for Optical Engineering

Journals (my favorites are Optics Letters, JOSA B, and IEEE JQE)

OSA Online Journals   Applied Optics, JOSA A, JOSA B, Optics Express, and Optics Letters.
IEEE Journal Of Quantum Electronics
Optics and Photonics News
Laser Focus World
Photonics (an e-zine)

A Few Sites With Relevant Content
* indicates the site is a link list.     (N) indicates a new entry.

St. Andrews Ultrashort Pulse Laser Research Group
Short Pulse High Power Laser Physics
Laser Design At Rochester
Electro-optic and Acousto-optics Devices
Generation Of Squeezed Light
Nonlinear Optics And Atomic Coherence Group
X-Ray Laser
* OpticsNotes
* Optics, Optoelectronics, and Laser Science Around The World
* Quantum Optics and Atom Optics

Laser Tutorials

Rami Arieli - The Laser Adventure
Notes From a Class on Lasers

For The Hobbyist

Photonics Lab Online
The Homebuilt Lasers Page
The Laser, Optics and Holography Ring

Laser Companies (just a few that are likely to be in your labs)

Coherent, Inc.
Lambda Physik
Spectra-Physics
Quantronix