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Lasers and Photonics
ECE278, Winter 2002
Graduate Course, 3 units.
Please note: The course number will be changed to ECE275B starting in the
2002-2003 academic year.
Professor & Class
Schedule
Peter
Burke
e-mail: pburke@uci.edu
Lect. Tu/Th 3:30 – 4:50 pm, PSCB 230
Office hours Tu/Th 5-6 pm,
Office: EG 2232
Pre-requisite
Undergraduate electromagnetics and modern physics, or consent of instructor
Course Description
This course will cover the
fundamental principles of laser operations, and then discuss specific laser
systems. The goal is to equip students with the basic knowledge necessary to
understand and use various lasers in their research and/or engineering
careers. Therefore, the first half of the course will be very theoretical.
Although this is a quickly changing industry, teaching the fundamentals will
allow students to understand new technological developments as they occur.
During the second half we will cover specific lasers systems and their
applications. While we will cover the standard lasers used in physics and
chemistry labs and their pulsed operations, there will also be a heavy
emphasis on semiconductor lasers and their integration into modern
fiber-optics communications systems.
Outline and lecture notes (in .pdf format):
(Lecture notes will be posted as the course devolps.)
Powerpoint version of files have recorded audio of the lectures. (Files are
LARGE).
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Lecture 1:
Introduction |
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Lecture 2: Classical review of
electromagnetic waves (Maxwell’s equations)
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Lecture 3: Quantum
description of electromagnetic waves (photons) |
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Lecture 4: Atomic
physics and the interaction of radiation with matter |
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Lecture 5: Atoms and
two-level rate
equations |
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Lecture 6:
Three-level rate equations |
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Lecture
7: Gain in 3-level systems, fiber amplifiers (EDFA)
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Lecture
8: Single vs. Multimode, hom. vs. inhom. broadening |
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Lecture
9: Laser oscillation: output power |
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Topics to study for
midterm |
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Midterm: Thursday,
February 7, 2002 |
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Lecture
10:Time dependent laser oscillation (Q-switching, mode locking) |
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Lecture 10 plane-wave
movie (Quicktime format, 1.1 MBytes) |
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Lecture
10 mode-lock movie (Quicktime format, 13.8 MBytes) |
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Lecture 11: Some
specific laser systems: HeNe, Ti:Saphire, etc. |
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Lecture
12: Semiconductors: Band theory, doping |
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Lecture 13: p-n
junctions, p-n lasers. Quantum well lasers |
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Lecture 113b |
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Lecture
14: Band Gap Engineering |
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Lecture 15:
DFB and DBR lasers |
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VCSELs
(student presentation) |
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Overview of the VCSEL
(student presentation) |
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Si Nanocrystals
(student presentation) |
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Photonics packaging (student presentation) |
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Fluorescent lighting (student presentation) |
Homework will be posted as the course develops:
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Intro. survey, answers, and results |
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Homework #1, due Jan. 15, 2002 at beginning of class |
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Homework #1 solutions |
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Homework #2, due Tuesday Jan. 22, 2002 at beginning of class |
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Hint and correction for Homework #2 |
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Homework #2 solutions |
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Sign correction for Homework #2, problem 6 |
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Homework #3, due Tuesday Jan 29, 2002 at the beginning of
class |
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Homework #3 solutions |
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Homework #4, due Tuesday Feb 5, 2002 at the beginning of
class |
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Homework #4 solutions |
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Homework #5, due Thursday, Feb 14, 2002 at the beginning of
class |
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Homework #5 help (text version of Mathematica
inputs) |
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Homework #5 help (Mathematica file) |
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HW #5 solutions |
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Midterm solutions |
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Homework #6, due Thursday, Feb 21, 2002 at the beginning of
class |
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Homework #6 solutions |
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Homework #7, due Thursday, Feb 28, 2002 at the beginning of
class |
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Homework #7 solutions |
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Final |
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Final solutions |
Grades
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Histogram HW1 |
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Histogram HW2 |
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Histogram HW3 |
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Histogram HW4 |
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Histogram Midterm If you are registered for
the class you can check your midterm score at
eee.uci.edu |
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Histogram HW5 |
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Histogram HW6 |
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Histogram HW7 |
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Histogram HW average |
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Histogram final exam |
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Histogram course average (40% HW, 30% midterm,
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Required Text Books
Joseph T.
Verdeyen, “Laser Electronics”, ISBN: 0-13-70666666-X, Third Edition, 1995
(Prentice Hall)
Optional Text Books
(On reserve at science library)
A. Yariv,
"Optical Electronics and Modern Communications". 1997.
B. E. A. Saleh and M. C. Teich, "Fundamentals of Photonics", 1991. A thorough
treatment of lasers and classical optics.
Mandel and Wolf, “Optical Coherence and Quantum Optics”, 1998. A very deep, excellent treatment of
quantum optics.
Govind P. Agrawal, “Fiber-Optic Communication Systems”, 1996. An overview from
the systems point of view. Some detail on individual component operations.
Eberly, “Lasers”, 1988, an excellent text on classical laser operation.
Riaziat, “Introduction to High-speed Electronics and Opto-electronics”, 1996
(not on reserve).
Siegmann, "Lasers" (chapter 12 is available in the copy center at the
basement of ET.)
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