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Lecture 37 of 61Week 8 Mode Locking and Real World Lasers
Pulse compression
Prof. Balaji Jayaprakash · IISc Bangalore
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- Optical Focus and Localisation of Light
- Relating Photon's Momentum to Spot Size
- Shortest Pulse of Light: How fast can we shutter the light?
- Behaviour of light through polarizers: Introduction
- Nature of Light: Introduction to Photo Multiplier Tubes
- Revisiting Polarisation Through Ket Vectors
- Light through Polarisers: Detailed Description - I
- Light through Polarisers: Detailed Description - II
- Time Dependent Perturbation Theory (TDPT): Overview
- TDPT in Steps -1: Unperturbed and Perturbed Hamiltonian
- TDPT in Steps - 2: Introducing λ- the switch and first approximation
- TDPT in Steps -3 : Finding the co-efficients
- Fermi's Golden Rule
- Beer Lambert's Law from TDPT
- Einstein's Phenomenology
- Einstein's Coefficients, Fluorescence and Lifetime
- Fock States and Photonic Treatment of LightÂ
- Operators in Fock State Space
- Light Matter Interaction and Rudimentary Feynman Diagrams
- Emergence of Spontaneous and Stimulated Emission Processes
- Anisotropy of emitted Fluorescence.
- Fluorescence spectrum.( introduction )
- Fluorescence spectrum – Symmetry rule (Part 2)
- Singlet –Triplet states
- Jablonski diagram.
- Introduction to LASER
- LASER population dynamics
- LASER population dynamics (Part- 2)
- Real world LASER & characteristics of LASER emission
- Temporal and Spatial Coherence
- Transverse and Longitudinal modes of LASER
- Pulsed LASER
- Q-switching in detail
- Q switching in detail ( part-2 )
- Basics of mode locking
- Basics of mode locking ( part 2)
- Pulse compression
- Real world system (Mode lock part -2)
- TEM mode
- Alignment basics
- Non-Linear Optics
- Confocal Detection
- Interference Filters
- Laser Scanning System -1
- Laser Scanning System -2
- Alignment of Moving Beams
- Decoding an Objective Lens- 1
- Decoding an Objective Lens -2
- Designing Lens Systems
- Astigmatism and Field Curvature
- Intro to Lab Session
- Optics in LAB: Aligning light through an optical fiber -1
- Optics in Lab: Telescope
- Kinematic Mounts
- Alignment with out iris
- Fluorescecne Spectrometer -1
- Fluorescecne Spectrometer -2
- Ti:Sapphire Laser and Two Photon Fluorescecne
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- Live Session 04-04-2025