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Syllabus |
No lecture on Monday, Jan. 20 (It's a holiday).
The Wed. Jan 22 lecture will be from 2-5 pm to make up for Monday.
The Wed. Feb 12 lecture will be from 2-4:50 pm.
There will be NO CLASS on Wed., Feb 19.
Outline and lecture notes (in .pdf format):
The lecture notes are available at the copy center at the base of ET as a bound copy.
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Lecture 1: Introduction |
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Lecture 2: Classical review of electromagnetic waves |
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Lecture 3: Fields in a box |
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Lecture 4: Planck, atomic physics, Einstein A/B coeffecients |
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Lecture 5: Two level rate equations |
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Lecture 6: Three level rate equations |
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Lecture 7: Gain saturation, fiber amplifiers |
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Lecture 8: Laser oscillation |
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Lecture 9: Laser output power |
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Lecture 10: Time dependent oscillation |
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Lecture 11: Example lasers |
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Lecture 12: Band theory of solids |
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Lecture 13: Optical properties of semiconductors |
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Lecture 14: Semiconductor lasers |
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Lecture 15: DBR, DFB lasers |
Homework will be posted as the course develops:
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HW1 |
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HW2 |
| HW2 solutions | |
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HW3 |
| HW3 solutions | |
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HW4 |
| HW4 solutions | |
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HW5 |
| HW5 solns | |
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HW6 |
| HW6 solns | |
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Midterm and solns. |
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Last year's final |
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This year's final and solns, grading criteria |
Term paper guidelines:
10 pages max, excluding refs.
10 point font or larger
1" margins on all sides
Proper references required, including websites
Send mail to Peter Burke with
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