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Introduction to Quantum and Nonlinear Optics II - NOOE028
Title: Základy kvantové a nelineární optiky II
Guaranteed by: Department of Chemical Physics and Optics (32-KCHFO)
Faculty: Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
Actual: from 2022
Semester: summer
E-Credits: 6
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:3/1, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unlimited
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
State of the course: taught
Language: Czech, English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Guarantor: doc. RNDr. František Trojánek, Ph.D.
prof. RNDr. Petr Malý, DrSc.
Classification: Physics > Optics and Optoelectronics
Co-requisite : NOOE027
Annotation -
Last update: T_KCHFO (18.05.2001)
Linear and nonlinear optics, theory of nonlinear susceptibility. Classical description of phenomena of the second and third order: second harmonics, parametric interaction, four-wave processes, third harmonics, two-photon absorption, phase conjugation, optical bistability. Principles of nonlinear spectroscopy.
Course completion requirements -
Last update: doc. RNDr. František Trojánek, Ph.D. (28.04.2023)

The condition for completing the course is obtaining a credit and successfully passing the exam.

Literature -
Last update: doc. RNDr. František Trojánek, Ph.D. (02.05.2023)

R. W. Boyd: Nonlinear Optics, Academic Press, San Diego, USA, 2008

G. New: Introduction to Nonlinear Optics, Cambridge University Press, New York, USA, 2011

R. L. Sutherland: Handbook of Nonlinear Optics, Marcel Dekker Inc., New York, USA, 2003

Requirements to the exam -
Last update: doc. RNDr. František Trojánek, Ph.D. (02.05.2023)

Credit is a necessary condition for participation in the exam. The exam is oral. The requirements correspond to the syllabus to the scope presented in the lecture.

Syllabus -
Last update: doc. RNDr. František Trojánek, Ph.D. (02.05.2023)

01 Introduction. History. Linear and nonlinear optics.

02 Lorentz microscopic model.

03 Nonlinear susceptibility.

04 Properties of nonlinear susceptibility. Effect of symmetry. Effective susceptibility value.

05 Quantum-mechanical theory of susceptibility.

06 Electromagnetic formulation of nonlinear optics. Coupled-wave equations.

07 Second harmonic generation.

08 Angular phase-matching. Temperature phase-matching. Quasi-phase-matching.

09 Sum and differential frequency generations.

10 Parametric generator, amplifier and oscillator.

11 Third-order susceptibility. Third harmonic generation. Continuum generation.

12 Intensity dependent complex refractive index. Nonlinear refractive index and absorption.

13 Self-focusing. Self-phase modulation.

14 Optical phase conjugation.

15 Induced grating. Thin grating.

16 Thick grating. Bistability (dispersion, absorption).

18 Electro-optic effects.

19 Two-photon absorption. Doppler-free spectroscopy. Laser cooling. Multiphoton ionization.

20 Introduction to light scatterings. Spontaneous and stimulated Raman scattering. Stokes component.

21 Anti-stokes component. CARS.

22 Spontaneous and stimulated Brillouin scattering.

23 High harmonics generation. Attosecond pulses.

24 Semiclassical theory of light matter interactions. Optical Bloch equations. Bloch vector.

25 Coherent phenomena. Photon echo. Self-induced transparency. Optical nutation. Free polarization decay.

 
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