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Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy - NOOE119
Title: Nelineární optická spektroskopie
Guaranteed by: Institute of Physics of Charles University (32-FUUK)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 3
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: yes / unlimited
Key competences: 4EU+ Flagship 3
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Note: enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: doc. Mgr. Tomáš Mančal, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. František Šanda, Ph.D.
RNDr. Pavel Malý, Ph.D.
Teacher(s): doc. Mgr. Tomáš Mančal, Ph.D.
doc. Mgr. František Šanda, Ph.D.
Annotation -
The lecture forms a unified theoretical ground for interpretation of non-linear spectroscopies and introduces the student into its recent applications in biophysics and chemical physics.
Last update: T_FUUK (17.01.2008)
Aim of the course -

To give an overview of theoretical methods of description and simulation of ultra-fast non-linear optical experiments. To enable students to solve practical problems in interpretation of time-resolved non-linear optical spectra.

Last update: Mančal Tomáš, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (11.02.2022)
Course completion requirements -

Oral exam

Last update: Šanda František, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (28.04.2020)
Literature -

S. Mukamel, Principles of Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy, Oxford Unoiversity Press, Oxford, 1995

L. Valkunas, D. Abramavicius and T. Mančal, Molecular Excitation Dynamics and Relaxation: Quantum Theory and Spectroscopy, Wiley-VCH, Berlin, 2013

L. Allen and J. H. Eberly: Optical Resonance and Two-level Atoms, Dover, New York, 1987

Last update: Mančal Tomáš, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (11.02.2022)
Teaching methods -
On-line lectures

Dedicated webpage of Non-linear spectroscopy lecture.

Youtube channel: OpenQS Lectures (Open Quantum Systems Lectures)

Last update: Mančal Tomáš, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (23.02.2022)
Requirements to the exam -

Students have to demonstrate:

1) knowledge of the non-linear response theory of time-resolved optical experiments (differential absorption, two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy) in the extent provided by the lecture

2) understanding of the relation between spectroscopic signals and quantum dynamics of studied systems.

Last update: Mančal Tomáš, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (11.02.2022)
Syllabus -

Review of elementary electrodynamics and relation between spectroscopy and light induced polarization.

Introduction to open quantum systems and their interaction with coherent light.

Brief review of optical absorption and emission spectrum.

Theoretical construction of spectroscopic signals. Response functions, Green functions in Liouville space, Liouville pathways, double-sided Feynman diagrams.

Review of experimental methods: Transient absorption, spatial coherence, rephasing, photon echo, spectral hole burning, multi-dimentional spectroscopy.

Models of fluctuation dynamics, Brownian oscillator, spin-boson model, stochastic models.

Introduction to recent problems in non-linear spectroscopy.

Last update: Mančal Tomáš, doc. Mgr., Ph.D. (11.02.2022)
 
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