PHYS 4053 - Lasers and Optical Electronics

Course last offered 

 :   

Spring 2018/19

Instructor(s)

 :

WONG Kam Sing

No. of credits

 :

3



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) per week: 3

 

Content

  • Propagation of Gaussian beams
  • Optical cavity and cavity modes
  • Blackbody radiation and stimulated emission
  • Laser principles and rate equations
  • Examples of solid state, liquid, gas and semiconductor lasers
  • Laser Q-switching and mode-locking
  • Detection of optical radiation